They'll remember it the next time they're reminded of the FGC, though. Instead of the tens of thousands of dollars the FGC raised for Japanese tsunami victims. Or the thousands of bucks people donated to Chris Hu when his family's appt complex burned down. Or the many other awesome things that the FGC has done.
Why is this a talking point among the FGC? Is it surprising that bad news draws more attention? Isn't it patently obvious that people behaving like decent human beings is not particularly newsworthy, while people acting like assholes is?
As for notworksafe's idea that this will blow over, he's been saying this since the story first emerged. It's another talking point, this time from within the community, where they very intelligently let
everyone else spin the story of what happened, rather than come out and let people know their side of it. It hasn't worked well. And if the FGC continues to demonstrate shitty behavior, like in that last video, guess what? People will call them out on it.
I've said it before: if the FGC wants to say "oh, but you're painting with too broad a brush", then they have to prove it and show that this sort of behavior is unacceptable. And none of this "the FGC is too decentralized", because that's bullshit. Each major event has an organizer. Evo has organizers. They can speak to each other. (And instead, we get videos like the ones above that establish that hey, yeah, there are other people with shitty attitudes hosting streams.)
Instead what we're getting is an attempt to bury this story, to make it just go away, because no one really wants to put in an effort to change the community. At best we get platitudes like "oh, we just have to work harder", without every clarifying
what exactly people have to work harder at.
Which isn't even to mention that we have people who don't even think anything
should be done, because anything short of a strict meritocracy would be unacceptable. We certainly don't want to prevent utterly despicable assholes[1] from becoming evo champions.
[1] And to be clear, I'm not saying that Aris is any of these things. At this point I think we're beyond Aris. There are real issues in the community that even the FGC acknowledges.
