Right, who has gotten at least 3 death threats from asmongolds parasocial fans.
He says that while wiggling his eyebrows and smiling, and then goes on to talk about the persons BIO and of course share his bigoted views on it. Just like his transphobic views about pronouns.
He knew what effect it would have talking about it on stream or even replying to the tweets, it happened with Evitel before a lot. Can’t say anything negative about him or you’ll have thousands of people harassing you for weeks. Even made a youtube video about it, he knows what he’s doing and the effect it has. No excuse.
What he said and what he did tells a different story, bringing up the tweets in his stream was always going to encourage some of his fans to go on the attack and he knows this. There is a reason his fans have a reputation and scenarios like this only do more to highlight this. Like I’ve said before, Asmongold can’t stop his fans from running their own agendas but he had the choice whether to discuss it on his stream or not, by bringing it up in his stream he knowingly played right into the hands of his fans. Any idiot with half a brain could have guessed what the reaction from this would be.
The twitter account has been locked down with the following message but I did manage to read some of what was on there before he did.
Continued threats to me and my family have caused me to lock down my account. Maybe I’ll reopen it one day.
The opinion wasn’t nice about Asmongold and I fully agree that the Blizzard employee should have conducted themselves better but the fact that they are now getting threats (on multiple platforms too) towards not only himself but to his family is going way too far.
To resort to death threats towards someone and their family over what was said in this tweet is incredibly messed up and those who resorted to that do need to face some kind of consequences. I really do hope the Blizzard employee reports as many of these threats as possible.
Depends on how much value you got in the company. I also now such cases but sadly companies also got douchebags in positions which are too critical running the business. Fireing a product engineer is much much harder then a marketing basic employee or factory worker
You think a guy who sends death threats to a blizzard employee who insulted their favorite streamer, Has logic behind his actions?
That guy won’t even listen to the streamer.
If his viewers could listen, they would have at least listened to him and NOT gather around him, ruin his questing, jump around for attention and stuff like that on his own stream.
This is the sad part.
Asmongold himself is an entertaining fella. He’s very logical in most cases, and is quite interesting to listen to.
However, due to his large viewership and fanbase, some of his fans are just horrible. Which actually results in him being considered the source of it all.
We wait over 6 months for patch 9.1 and lots of players feel like they have nothing more to do after 5 days! How I cannot blame devs when Korthia have size of 1/10 Argus. They only thing what players are doing now on new content is waiting for Fallen Charger.
These values disappeared a long long time ago. I mean just remember the free Hong Kong incident and this will tell you all about this companies “values” and “morals”. Hint: they don’t exist.
Asmon knows exactly how his community will react and most of his stuff is designed around them spazing out so making a video he knew that it will go viral and it will be fun. I wouldn’t be so sure about the death threats, not the first time people who give themselves bad rep try to play the victim card but ofc ones who will sympathize will sympathize because he probably uses proper gender pronouns. I wonder what was going through that devs head, what did he think would happen, replying to that crazy person who suggests starting a false flag wave. How can anybody sane even reply to that with “guy’s an ahole”? I think that’s a bigger problem, rather than just simply calling somebody a name.
Here’s why the developer needs to lose his job. For starters he’s stupid enough to go on social media under his own name, tying himself to his employers, and insult people. So that already tells you this person is a fool. If they’re that stupid, then what else are they doing? And you know why they do it under their real names and employers? Because they’ve never had to face consequences for it.
The main reason is that I’m sick of the double standards. If I went and insulted my customers under my own name on Twitter, I would lose my job. Instantly. It’s not even a question that I’d lose my job. If this Blizzard developer was my customer, they would be the first person demanding it. The difference is they think they have the “right” opinions so they should be allowed. Losing their jobs and being held to standards isn’t for them, it’s for you and me.
And for what it’s worth, I agree with said developer’s opinion. I don’t like Asmongold or his content, I think a lot of his content is lazy reaction videos. The difference though is that I’m a person on the internet who doesn’t like Asmongold’s content. Asmongold is not my customer.
Don’t want to lose your job? Keep your mouth shut if you’re going to post on social media under your own name, especially when you’re insulting your customers if they express negative views on your product.
I don’t think anyone says it’s ok, nor is it verbal abuse.
It is also an entirely different platform. So I don’t think you can go down the route of double standards.
But it is incredibly pathetic and unprofessional of a grown adult to get hooked into Twitter drama over a video game they don’t even develop.
No, there is no irony.
Are you implying I am hooked into Twitter drama? I am not, I am merely making an observation on something I see with my own two eyes.
You can have an opinion but not be invested.
And this is very telling of YOU. You think every employee at a company is ‘just the same’?
The company as a whole is not ‘its employees’. The company is a faceless, heartless ‘thing’.
Its employees are not. They are human beings with feelings and opinions, just like you.
Also:
Outside the game on social media or other websites or forums you can call them whatever you like (unless it breaks the rules of that particular site/media). You’re comparing 2 very, very different things.
Yes, Blizzard has pretty strict rules on language on their forums and ingame in the public channels, but that has absolutely nothing to do with anything said beyond those 2 places.
It’s like saying ‘My friend John doesn’t allow smoking in his house, so he should not be allowed to smoke anywhere in the world’. Which sounds pretty stupid, doesn’t it?
PS: He’s allowed to think whatever he wants about a streamer. Whether it’s smart to voice that opinion out in public is another matter; I personally don’t care either way, but of course it reflects bad on the company, so Blizzard WILL care and there’s a good chance they already reprimanded him.
