Yes, he did. The woman who he victimised has come out numerous times in his defence - including during the past week or so when people started bringing it up again.
This is most certainly a case of someone reforming their attitudes for the better.
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SFV pro player Gllty accused of sexual assault
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Yes, he did. The woman who he victimised has come out numerous times in his defence - including during the past week or so when people started bringing it up again.
This is most certainly a case of someone reforming their attitudes for the better.
Agreed on all counts, wish I saw this attitude from the majority of people in all threads about sexual assault/harrassment/abuse.
Yes he did. Unfortunately people aren't allowed to change by resetera rules.
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Complete agreement. Nobody is asking for him to be banned for life, but Bamco, Capcom, NRS, and majors never really stopped giving him jobs and screen time.
Read the top post on this page. At this point I think people should respect the victim's acceptance, as she's having to come to his defense now due to people bringing this up every so often. She shouldn't have to do that.
TBH I was really frustrated seeing how much she got sexually harassed on those streams. People were encouraging it so much and I remember just thinking "this dude is a fucking piece of shit" and he was so insistent on harassing her. If he has changed, I'm glad because fuck me his behavior was unacceptable.
He seems to harass people generally. My friend was at a tournament recently and he said that Gilty kept taking pictures of him, and Gilty took his phone so he could follow themself on twitter.
What a weirdo.
She*
I suppose, but if he already apologized himself publicly this wouldn't have to happen. Unfortunate
Gllty is a her.They seem to harass people generally. My friend was at a tournament recently and he said that Gilty kept taking pictures of him, and Gilty took his phone so he could follow themself on twitter.
What a weirdo.
Yeah sorry, I edited to gender neutral term correctly as soon as I posted. Never met her myself but my friends tell me she was being a weirdo to them at VSF.
He did. I don't think it was a good apology but at the time it was about the best you were going to get out of him. The overwhelming impression I get is that his attitudes have shifted dramatically. I don't think it's enormously productive to repeatedly bring it up every time someone acts like a scumbag in the FGC.
Ok. At least that's something. I think I recall he doubled down at some point instead so that's something.
Well Mirandas tweet says otherwise. He has changed. Shit was 7 years ago.
Floe going with the "accuser is mentally unfit" defense. Wow wow wow.
Glad the FGC is getting this moment. Hopefully it leads to change.
Glad the FGC is getting this moment. Hopefully it leads to change.
Let's take a look at his apology.
When he was first confronted about it, he doubled down.
Giant Bomb's Patrick Klepek has posted a thorough story on the matter. Included in the story is a transcript of Bakhtanians from one one of the episodes. His response when asked, "Can I get my Street Fighter without sexual harassment?":
Later, when asked about whether shouting "Rape that bitch!" at a match is acceptable behavior, Bakhtanians replied, "Look, man. What is unacceptable about that? There's nothing unacceptable about that. These are people, we're in America, man, this isn't North Korea. We can say what we want. People get emotional."Aris said:
When it kept blowing up, he finally threw up an "apology", with classic "sorry I offended anyone" bits.
Look how he totally avoids the sexual harassment issue. He's not apologizing for that. He's apologizing for doubling down on excusing his scumbag behavior. Genuinely good on Superyan for moving on and forgiving, but this guy received zero consequences at the time and is now a major figure in the FGC. If anything his antics raised his profile and popularity. Like others have said, the kind of community he engenders is 4chan/Kappa-tier trash people. That's the kind of viewer he caters to. Toxic shitheads. So frankly that tells me more about what kind of person he is and what kind of growing up he has done. Fucking fed up of people excusing what he did.
Remember Aris? What responsibility did the community take then? His sexual harassment was captured live on stream. It went on for hours. Capcom didn't even fire him from the show.
At this point it's looking like the FGC is a den of scumbags. Watch how a bunch of people will rush to defend this guy now.
Go read the thread in the sunken place when this was happening. A lot of people who are on these very forums laughed at that shit and thought it was hilarious.
And then got mad when the articles came out about it.
I think it's telling when the reaction isnt' "We sure have a lot of this stuff in our midst maybe we have some issues we need to work out." but instead "Not all FGC."
As much as people still call him an ass because of his streamer persona or how toxic his community is, As someone who knows him in real life, Aris attitude has changed significantly since back then. He is a different person and it angers me people continue to bring this up. Yes what he did was really shitty and I am not excusing it. But as she has forgiven him and came to his defense multiple times I think people need to stop making character judgement based off of something that happened years ago. People change. That will be my only comment on this, as I shouldn't speak for him other than that.
Anyways, All this stuff happening today in the FGC with harassment is saddening.
Whether or not you think what Aris did is correct, at this point any beef you have against him with this incident isn't in line with the victim's wishes. You're no longer fighting on her behalf and actively ignoring what she's saying. Which is ironic considering the topic.
Regarding the last incidient you wrote down I was watching UltraChenTV evo racap and Ultra David tried to do something about it immediately but both Evo and the other party who could possibly be in control of that tweet gave him the run around pointing fingers at the party needing to take care of it.
I saw David say that too. I was actually surprised that the tweet was STILL up when I wrote the reply.
Yeah I tunned into his stream once and he was on some WILD bullshit.
Is anybody NOT trash???
This response is almost as bad the tweet itself.
Don't be cute about that "translate this into proper English" shit now.
A Google search would've taken less time than hitting send on that post
Aris can he a sing for how somebody can change, but I can't fault some people for not forgiving him. That said you can let him rock along with others who have learned. Gllty however, with such a history, that's a mess.
The FGC has a lot of baggage and attitude due to it's age and the environment it developed in, and it's not surprising that in the last few years it's all finally coming to a head as both awareness of these issues increases, and the size/increasingly corporate nature of EVO and other large tournaments makes it harder to ignore from a commercial standpoint. I know a lot of the old guard and the r/kappa types don't want things to change (and seemingly MrWizard at times with his attitude), but the moment someone tries to hold EVO legally accountable for some of this stuff is going to force his hand.
Okay.... what am I missing here?
I'm not being facetious or "cute" or whatever.
Daigod so pure he thought doing sumo slam over and over online was a rejection of his humanity.
Henny is slang for Hennessy, a brand of cognac.
Tampa Bison is implying people are getting "drunk" off all this MeToo stuff, seemingly implying it's a bad thing that it's happening at all.
(Don't worry I had to look that up too I had no idea what the fuck it meant)
Yup. Infil absolutely should not have been able to compete at this year's Evo, and MrWiz is absolutely dead silent on that issue even while commentators and other prominent figures are bringing it up, and it speaks volumes. While I'm glad to see a lot of big names and faces speak up, like it or not Evo is the top dog right now and they need to set an example, and they're really really not. What are they going to do if people start getting restraining orders against other competitors etc?
Good on all of the other TO's stepping up to the plate, I'd feel significantly better attending say CB than Evo right now.
Does apologizing personally to the person they wronged and not repeating what they did in the past... 7 or so years qualify as taking responsibility for ones action? Because I don't think "not getting banned by Capcom/NRS/Namco" is on him.
What does it say about me that I always assume the assaulter is a man, especially in a gaming context?
When we hear about toxicity in gaming it's almost always men who are the perpetrators of that behavior. I'm always surprised to hear about women acting that way, especially towards other women considering that everyone knows how much shit women get from gamers.
When we hear about toxicity in gaming it's almost always men who are the perpetrators of that behavior. I'm always surprised to hear about women acting that way, especially towards other women considering that everyone knows how much shit women get from gamers.