omg, "Imma chad"
What gets me about this is, if Ellie and her supposed accomplice were signed wouldn't they be outed as soon as she had to play?
Lying about who was she was and her abilities would be a breach of contract. Sooooo why would they do this?
omg, "Imma chad"
Really?! If there was any more reason to ban YT and twitch from my kids, picking up the social mannerisms is it. Who says that kind of stuff.
I play almost everyday without voice chat and it's a very fun experience. Even i admit to myself that i would be toxic towards teammates if i were to turn on voice chat.I've played pretty much every major multiplayer game on pc at some point since the quake 3 days and overwatch had the worst community by far.
As someone who just sticks to fighting game scenes, it's bizarre to me how far behind the times OW esports scene is.
You know why.why would the audience or other players even get involved. I'm sure the team can find out quick for themselves.
I don't follow the league play so that's why I'm asking such a basic question about it. Why do they announce their players in such a manner? There's no law saying they have to do it. Do you think it's even necessary?
Apparently this trash human 'Haunt' is a large part of the reason.
'Gamers' fuckin' suck.
There is no law but it's the norm to generate some hype regarding new player signing by including gameplay montages with the announcement
Oh goodness. Have people on this forum graduated from doing the quote-reply to posts made after the fact, to straight up quote-replying to posts from completely different threads? This was incredibly confusing to parse while reading the thread.No you don't see women in esports because the gaming community is trash and harasses women all the time.
Not surprised to see your post history. 👋
She was a replacement along with another for players they lost to academy teams(a paying opportunity), Don't think they were planning to sign either before those player left. They didn't make a video for the other guy either. Also its not like Second Wind is a big org, they only started last April.
Aspen is one of the more well known and respected Overwatch streamers. She has no reason to lie about this.
Why doing this though? All that achieves is making girls more likely to be scared out of trying a career in overwatch :/
Why doing this though? All that achieves is making girls more likely to be scared out of trying a career in overwatch :/
Agreed, the worst part of all this bullshit now is that all these *totally not sexist gamers* feel vindicated. Because there is literally no way a new player could appear and it totally would happen to any new male player too."Just a prank bro".
Excuse me, social experiment.
And really it changes nothing because this is how people reacted to the concept of a woman entering their space. Why would anyone engage with this knowing that this is the baseline of how you're going to be treated?
So yeah, social experiment complete, and the result is that people can't handle women being in their space. ::Shrug::
Why doing this though? All that achieves is making girls more likely to be scared out of trying a career in overwatch :/
Supposedly the Punisher guy said it started out as just messing around with an alt account for social reasons, but then it spiraled out of handWhy doing this though? All that achieves is making girls more likely to be scared out of trying a career in overwatch :/
No, this is the result of people taking an extremely unique and suspect situation and CORRECTLY identifying that something was suspicious about it, only to be falsely labelled as sexist and misogynist for doing so. The actual amount of harassment has been the small minority of people who were following this story, but outlets like Kotaku are always extremely willing to brand gamers as shitty irregardless of facts.And really it changes nothing because this is how people reacted to the concept of a woman entering their space. Why would anyone engage with this knowing that this is the baseline of how you're going to be treated?
So yeah, social experiment complete, and the result is that people can't handle women being in their space. ::Shrug::
But there are at least 4 women playing in other contenders region and no fuzz was made over that, so i ask again, why was this necessary?"Just a prank bro".
Excuse me, social experiment.
And really it changes nothing because this is how people reacted to the concept of a woman entering their space. Why would anyone engage with this knowing that this is the baseline of how you're going to be treated?
So yeah, social experiment complete, and the result is that people can't handle women being in their space. ::Shrug::
oof some people must feel really embarrassed right now
No, this is the result of people taking an extremely unique and suspect situation and CORRECTLY identifying that something was suspicious about it, only to be falsely labelled as sexist and misogynist for doing so. The actual amount of harassment has been the small minority of people who were following this story, but outlets like Kotaku are always extremely willing to brand gamers as shitty irregardless of facts.
oof some people must feel really embarrassed right now
it kind of makes sense this way too
But there are at least 4 women playing in other contenders region and no fuzz was made over that, so i ask again, why was this necessary?
oof some people must feel really embarrassed right now
it kind of makes sense this way too
Just could've waited for the truth to come out eventually instead all these dudes flipped out.
Also did they really needed to do a "social experiment" to find out if female players are for reals harassed and shit? 🙄
No, this is the result of people taking an extremely unique and suspect situation and CORRECTLY identifying that something was suspicious about it, only to be falsely labelled as sexist and misogynist for doing so. The actual amount of harassment has been the small minority of people who were following this story, but outlets like Kotaku are always extremely willing to brand gamers as shitty irregardless of facts.
If I had to guess they were in on it. Sadly this stunt only makes things worse for everyone.Wait... so how the hell did this dude get signed to a contenders team as a woman? Either they did absolutely no vetting or even a skype interview or they were in on it.
This clip cuts off before Aspen gives her thoughts on what happened:
Aspen knows what it's like to live in this community. She knows players like her aren't welcome.The whole situation made everyone who talked any sort of garbage/negativity look like trash. Even if Ellie was a real person, the community around the Contenders and the people who talk about female gamers saying 'Oh it's not real/Cam or proof' is garbage. It was a test, but if you look at the situation in the back, you see so much trash being talked. Female gamers in a nutshell: You need to show them your birth certificate if you wanna go pro. That's how garbage it is. It was a social experiment gone wrong. It went too far.
Yes, but she quit because of all the white knights. THat must be it.
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