Durrzerker
Banned
...and I got called a faggot and told to kill myself for standing up for her.
i.gyazo.com/79b5d32a5738ccf6b289e8ba07840c52
We were playing Overwatch competitive mode and made the mistake of using team chat to try and improve our chances of winning. She was playing Mercy and got flanked by a Genji. She called out on mic, "Genji flank, help please"
That's it. That's all it took.
"Oh my god is that a girl?"
"Show us your tits."
"Shut the fuck up you fat cunt."
"You must be a fucking bull dyke if you play games."
These people weren't a group. Four randos, one silent, three openly yelling at her in chat until I convinced her to mute it and switch to discord. By then she was literally crying, and fuck victim blamers who say she should toughen up. I told them off before muting chat as well, only to have the silent person from the game send me a friend request. I acceptes it out of curiosity to see if maybe they were equally disturbed and wanted to join up with us to give us less chances of more people like that, but nope. They sent the text in that screenshot.
I just...what the fuck, guys.
i'm tired.
i'm so tired.
i'm tired of negativity, i'm tired of hatred, i'm tired of oppressive cynicism.
i'm tired of watching people's enthusiasm for the things they love get ground down by the needless attacks of other people.
i'm tired of people going out of their way to attack others, to be negative, to demean and demoralize for the sake of making themselves feel better.
i'm tired of insults being easier than compliments.
of my hobbies being suffocated by people who hate the sight of anything that isn't specifically made for them
of people going out of their way to not listen or empathize so that they can feel vindicated in the beliefs they use to hurt other people with
of death threats and slurs over video games, over accusing people who just want to feel included of censorship, of hurtful, hateful, vicious people
i'm tired of seeing my friends being made to cry because they happened to be a woman and dared to use voice chat in a videogame and were buried in horrible slurs
i'm tired of this community, of the people who share my interests, of the pervading sense that no one's allowed to want to make things better or they're the enemy.
just...
i'm tired.
i want things to be better, but i'm running out of energy to fight for it.
and on some level, i know that's what they want, to shout and push until the people who care stop caring.
and i'm tired of that, too.
I'm starting to think this hobby isn't worth it anymore.
i.gyazo.com/79b5d32a5738ccf6b289e8ba07840c52
We were playing Overwatch competitive mode and made the mistake of using team chat to try and improve our chances of winning. She was playing Mercy and got flanked by a Genji. She called out on mic, "Genji flank, help please"
That's it. That's all it took.
"Oh my god is that a girl?"
"Show us your tits."
"Shut the fuck up you fat cunt."
"You must be a fucking bull dyke if you play games."
These people weren't a group. Four randos, one silent, three openly yelling at her in chat until I convinced her to mute it and switch to discord. By then she was literally crying, and fuck victim blamers who say she should toughen up. I told them off before muting chat as well, only to have the silent person from the game send me a friend request. I acceptes it out of curiosity to see if maybe they were equally disturbed and wanted to join up with us to give us less chances of more people like that, but nope. They sent the text in that screenshot.
I just...what the fuck, guys.
i'm tired.
i'm so tired.
i'm tired of negativity, i'm tired of hatred, i'm tired of oppressive cynicism.
i'm tired of watching people's enthusiasm for the things they love get ground down by the needless attacks of other people.
i'm tired of people going out of their way to attack others, to be negative, to demean and demoralize for the sake of making themselves feel better.
i'm tired of insults being easier than compliments.
of my hobbies being suffocated by people who hate the sight of anything that isn't specifically made for them
of people going out of their way to not listen or empathize so that they can feel vindicated in the beliefs they use to hurt other people with
of death threats and slurs over video games, over accusing people who just want to feel included of censorship, of hurtful, hateful, vicious people
i'm tired of seeing my friends being made to cry because they happened to be a woman and dared to use voice chat in a videogame and were buried in horrible slurs
i'm tired of this community, of the people who share my interests, of the pervading sense that no one's allowed to want to make things better or they're the enemy.
just...
i'm tired.
i want things to be better, but i'm running out of energy to fight for it.
and on some level, i know that's what they want, to shout and push until the people who care stop caring.
and i'm tired of that, too.
I'm starting to think this hobby isn't worth it anymore.
So sorry your friend had to endure that, and good on you for sticking up for her while enduring awful abuse also.
