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I'm sorry to hear that Mr Wizard is yet another sicko in the FGC.... something has to change NOW or I'm not returning.
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FGC Member Mikey (CrackPr0n) accuses EVO Organizer Joey "Mr. Wizard" Cuellar of Sexual Harassment, Pedophilia UP: Admits it
- Thread starter The Turbanator
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I'm sorry to hear that Mr Wizard is yet another sicko in the FGC.... something has to change NOW or I'm not returning.
Any info from that show should probably be taken with more than a grain of salt.
I'm worried this may just be the tip of the pedo iceberg, if certain FGC insiders are telling it true...
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For the record, because I'm unsure if you're misunderstanding or not, Watson is not the one making the accusation directly, he's signal boosting Mikey/Crackpr0n's allegations. He seems, however, to have been aware of this for a VERY long time.
What an absolutely sickening read. No wonder Mr Wizard's been so negligent in dealing with abusers and predators over the years.
I think we've all been under the assumption that sexual abuse is uncommon or extraordinarily rare because people don't want to talk about what happened to them and/or because predators get protected.
We're about to get a wake-up call, I fear.
Maybe I'm naive, but I don't think of this as damage to the FGC, but the illness that was already there coming out. It might be a temporary setback, but I think that if problem actors in the community are recognized rather than ignored, if they can be removed, and if the community can restructure itself away from presenting itself as totally informal and grassroots and instead take seriously everything it needs to in order to actually take care of the members of that community - than you can draw in people you otherwise wouldn't and add vitality to the community in that way.
Even if EVO itself dies, it isn't the end of the world. Other people can figure out how to offer same while running things better. Numerous big names can be removed; there's no shortage of people with the interest or skills.
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EDIT: Of course, me getting mad at these people "staying mum" about this one specific story is unfair - it would be shitty for one of them to retell the story without the victim. But joking about it...Shit.
Evo dying is not the end of the world or the FGC, but make no mistake it's a huge setback. It's not only the largest open bracket tournament series in fighting games, I'm pretty sure it's the largest in all competitive gaming.
What does it say about you that you are more focused on the semantics of using the term "literally" in a thread about probable wide spread pedophilia in the FGC
ResetEra nothing. You're a clown.
a slight misunderstanding. I'm not a clown if you met me IRL, I promise. xD
Thought the poster was stating that EVERYONE in the FGC was a pedo. Upon further reading, I was mistaken and apologize.
If Evo goes, which tbh I wouldn't expect it to as it's not strictly just the MrWizard show, it going away would be felt for years and there's no event that's going to just outright replace it.
Watson mentions another example of Wizard's harassment in 2018
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Here is the Twitch clip I mentioned earlier about Wattson referring to Wiz in a similar light years ago (Twitch clips aren't dated at all so idk when this was exactly).
FGC deserves better than this. I am hopeful that the people passionate in that community would form something new and better.
I agree. ComboBreaker and CEO are big and will continue to grow, but even combined they don't replace a single Evo.
I said open bracket. I know OWL has open tryouts and open online divisions, but that's not the same as a tournament where anybody and everybody can compete with the pros.
All this shit is legit making me sick to my stomach.
I feel for those closer to all of this and of course the victims.
Fuck.
I feel for those closer to all of this and of course the victims.
Fuck.
Like a revolution? REVO.
Kinda like when a certain forum owner was outed as a sex pest so something new was made.
It can be different, and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm hopeful the community would do its best, it still wouldn't patch the hole in my heart from Evo dying. It just is what it is, spent so much of my life looking at videos from early Evos up to attending 3 separate times as I got older. It's all just depressing, both the abuse and the tainting of something you loved.
It won't die without him. In fact, it won't survive if we keep harboring individuals like him.
If not, I would at least hope that a boycott of the event would gain traction.
Wouldn't they be complicit in this, though? Having started and grown Evo alongside Mr. Wizard, they must have been aware of his tendencies.
There's a time and a place, and this ain't it...
In regards to the topic, I definitely expected some vile shit to come out about Wizard in all of this since it's damn near an open secret that he's been a bit of an asshole for a long time.
I gotta say though, I didn't quite expect it to take this kind of turn, and I shudder to think of how deep this rabbit hole might go.
Somebody would take over EVO, or another event would spring up to fill that role (that summer, west coast, big event thing).
ComboBreaker is awesome of course. It's vibe is different than EVO though and I liked having different kind of tournaments that way. Or ComboBreaker could morph into something different/bigger.
Wiz going away will not crumble the FGC, something/somebody else will rise up.
ComboBreaker is awesome of course. It's vibe is different than EVO though and I liked having different kind of tournaments that way. Or ComboBreaker could morph into something different/bigger.
Wiz going away will not crumble the FGC, something/somebody else will rise up.
This is all reminding me of another forum, many years ago. Any time someone brought up criticism of weird behavior in the FGC, the FGC crowd on the site usually formed a defense brigade and trumpeted the same talking points to the point it was just a question of when someone would post the "I love the FGC" YouTube video they always used as irrefutable evidence that, no, there's no shit to be had in the FGC.
I always heard that Watts hates Wiz. I think he is doing this to destroy Wiz, not be the "good guy". But the results are the same, expose this kind of behavior.
Man reading that mad me so mad bro! I had to walk away for a few mins!
Being a salty old fart on twitter is not even on the same planet compared to what Mr. Wizard did. Watson may be a bitter guy and he probably doesn't have noble motives for doing this, but focusing on that is taking away focus from what's really important here
They've been doing that since the 2000s. Always the same shit about old Arcade Culture and all the scummy bullshit that came with it.
Watson spoke up about it years ago in one of his wild ass rants on stream. People just weren't buying it at the time I guess since, you know, Watson is kind of an asshole himself.