Verified Blizzard employee dropping Twitter bombs on Asmongold

KnightFalz · July 2021

Jean-Luc_Picard said:

rojoArcueid said:

i'll never understand why people hate on something they don't do or someone they don't care about or even watch.

If it doesn't hurt you, move on with your life.

I usually would ignore that asmongold guy, but here there's a person's job in the balance, and that's a bit more important than some streamer's whiny mood because someone happens to not like him.

That person's job is at risk due to choosing to engage in unprofessional public conduct, despite knowing it inappropriate and that it could lead to severe repercussion from the employer. If what was in the balance mattered sufficiently to that person the conduct wouldn't have happened to begin with and there would be no potential for peril.

Asmongold couldn't stir the pot if that person hadn't first filled it.

Scot · July 2021

Bo even sings about how the internet morphed in nature, from the late nineties almost colligate Dr Jeckel, to the post noughties nightmare of Mr Hyde.

FrodoFragins · July 2021

Jean-Luc_Picard said:

rojoArcueid said:

i'll never understand why people hate on something they don't do or someone they don't care about or even watch.

If it doesn't hurt you, move on with your life.

I usually would ignore that asmongold guy, but here there's a person's job in the balance, and that's a bit more important than some streamer's whiny mood because someone happens to not like him.

If their job is in the balance for something THEY said on social media, it's their own responsibility and they can only blame themselves.

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rojoArcueid · July 2021

Jean-Luc_Picard said:

rojoArcueid said:

i'll never understand why people hate on something they don't do or someone they don't care about or even watch.

If it doesn't hurt you, move on with your life.

I usually would ignore that asmongold guy, but here there's a person's job in the balance, and that's a bit more important than some streamer's whiny mood because someone happens to not like him.

According to the streamer, they talked in private and sorted it out and are cool now. The problem here was the Blizzard employee's reaction with his Tweet "that guys is an asswhole" without context responding to another Tweet written by a third person who has a history of social media troublemaking.

Scot · July 2021

rojoArcueid said:

Jean-Luc_Picard said:

rojoArcueid said:

i'll never understand why people hate on something they don't do or someone they don't care about or even watch.

If it doesn't hurt you, move on with your life.

I usually would ignore that asmongold guy, but here there's a person's job in the balance, and that's a bit more important than some streamer's whiny mood because someone happens to not like him.

According to the streamer, they talked in private and sorted it out and are cool now. The problem here was the Blizzard employee's reaction with his Tweet "that guys is an asswhole" without context responding to another Tweet written by a third person who has a history of social media troublemaking.

So the first ever social media storm in a tea cup, getting a huge amount of ticks, views and articles all over gaming media. Who'd have thought it?

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rojoArcueid · July 2021

Scot said:

rojoArcueid said:

Jean-Luc_Picard said:

rojoArcueid said:

i'll never understand why people hate on something they don't do or someone they don't care about or even watch.

If it doesn't hurt you, move on with your life.

I usually would ignore that asmongold guy, but here there's a person's job in the balance, and that's a bit more important than some streamer's whiny mood because someone happens to not like him.

According to the streamer, they talked in private and sorted it out and are cool now. The problem here was the Blizzard employee's reaction with his Tweet "that guys is an asswhole" without context responding to another Tweet written by a third person who has a history of social media troublemaking.

So the first ever social media storm in a tea cup, getting a huge amount of ticks, views and articles all over gaming media. Who'd have thought it?

Hardly the first one. I don't use social media anymore, haven't for a few years but this used to happen a little bit too often. Not surprised it's still a common thing.

Scot · July 2021

rojoArcueid said:

Scot said:

rojoArcueid said:

Jean-Luc_Picard said:

rojoArcueid said:

i'll never understand why people hate on something they don't do or someone they don't care about or even watch.

If it doesn't hurt you, move on with your life.

I usually would ignore that asmongold guy, but here there's a person's job in the balance, and that's a bit more important than some streamer's whiny mood because someone happens to not like him.

According to the streamer, they talked in private and sorted it out and are cool now. The problem here was the Blizzard employee's reaction with his Tweet "that guys is an asswhole" without context responding to another Tweet written by a third person who has a history of social media troublemaking.

So the first ever social media storm in a tea cup, getting a huge amount of ticks, views and articles all over gaming media. Who'd have thought it?

Hardly the first one. I don't use social media anymore, haven't for a few years but this used to happen a little bit too often. Not surprised it's still a common thing.

Err I was kidding there, it is the norm. The lesson here is to take no notice what so ever. I am thinking of all the posters on here and elsewhere who got hot under the collar about this. Your time is being wasted on this nonsense, play a game you will find it much more fulfilling and worthwhile.

Horusra · July 2021

Viper482 said:

Scot said:

mcrippins said:

kitarad said:

WTH obviously he did this to make sure that guy loses his job. If he didn't care he called him asshole then why make a video about it.

Did you even watch the video? He articulated his responses quite well.

He could have tweeted a response, making a video is saying "look at me" and escalating the issue to another level. I did not watch the video myself, I refuse to take part social media drivel.

Yet here you are.....

If you didn't care you wouldn't be posting this. See how that works?

The age old red herring...it is commented on because it is here and shows up on the current discussions and people are bored and like to give their opinions on everything. Like anytime a game thread starts and droves come in to tell you how much they hate it.

JudgeUK · July 2021

Taking a step back and I'd say this Asmongold has got it right. But I don't mean his comments on any topic.
Rather he's worked out what attracts people to a certain sector, and has modelled himself to be the magnet for them.
Now this persona has to be a number of things, but with two main characteristics: brash, divisive.
Then off he goes, gives his people what they want, and the subscriptions come in.

Cuddleheart · July 2021

I don't watch streamers, but holy cow do some of you seem pretty bitter that people managed to make a hustle out of it.

Like, look at the chat on the video. Are people who are highly active on social media type platforms typically the type to let things go? I'd imagine the choice was to either address the topic or have the people in your chat be completely unhinged for the whole stream.

Horusra · July 2021

JudgeUK said:

Taking a step back and I'd say this Asmongold has got it right. But I don't mean his comments on any topic.
Rather he's worked out what attracts people to a certain sector, and has modelled himself to be the magnet for them.
Now this persona has to be a number of things, but with two main characteristics: brash, divisive.
Then off he goes, gives his people what they want, and the subscriptions come in.

Then it all crashes down because a girl gets in a hot tub and the subs move to her....

Theocritus · July 2021

Jean-Luc_Picard said:

Deathkon1 said:

Scot said:

The world of social media, always such a delight.
bo burnham had it right welcome to the internet

“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”
― Umberto Eco

and its funny how many of them are now "experts" because they can type something or make a video.......

laserit · July 2021

Meanwhile back at the outhouse things are piling up.

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FrodoFragins · July 2021

JudgeUK said:

Taking a step back and I'd say this Asmongold has got it right. But I don't mean his comments on any topic.
Rather he's worked out what attracts people to a certain sector, and has modelled himself to be the magnet for them.
Now this persona has to be a number of things, but with two main characteristics: brash, divisive.
Then off he goes, gives his people what they want, and the subscriptions come in.

I would replace divisive with blunt. He has no problem praising games or parts of them. He's divisive on WOW because he's clearly burned out but also addicted to the damn game.

Gdemami · July 2021

Zegaloth said:
Cancel is such an in vogue term when it's the very model that capitalism is built upon. If you like something, you buy it, if you don't then you move on.

...oh dear. You got it all so backwards.

You are a prototype product of cancel culture and portraying everything that is "wrong" with todays society.

The cancel behavior is actually the opposite of what capitalism/freedom is supposed to represent.

You don't like being called an asshole at the checkout? Well, don't go shopping there any more. But that is not enough for you, because you want such behavior to "be met with corrective action", right?

This applies to pretty much anything today as it is popular tune of the masses, we can't just move on, things must be "dealt with" - from racism to sexual harassement to blockchain games, you name it.

That is where any leftism(the original meaning) leads to - stripping down our liberties so you can force your own political views and bias down peoples throat.

You reap what you sow indeed and it is just a matter of time when you will get canceled yourself...

Horusra · July 2021

Zegaloth said:

MightyUnclean said:

What you think, Blizz dude going to get cancelled?

Cancel is such an in vogue term when it's the very model that capitalism is built upon. If you like something, you buy it, if you don't then you move on.

Did Block Buster get "canceled"? what about Toys R Us?

Would you be okay with the checkout person at your local mart calling you an asshole? would you think that they should keep their job?

The only difference here is that the Blizzard Employee said it over the internet instead of to the customers face. It's un-professional and should be met with corrective action, because actions have consequences, which I think is a huge disconnect for some people who want the internet to be seperate from the real world.

That ship has sailed. The moment corporations started using social media was the death of the wild west of internet's past. So you can either accept that the internet isn't your buddy at the bar, or you can reap the consequences of your actions.

In Socialist economies they just kill you or let you starve. People naturally moving from an obsolete business model to something new is not "cancelling"..."cancelling" something is using social pressures to scare people from interacting with someone. That is not a free and open association form of economy.a

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“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”

― Umberto Eco