It’s not uncommon for a major development head though, and they did knock it down to 1 year and then he allegedly violated it while still employed at Trendy. The idea is to prevent a former employee from making a competing product using knowledge they acquired at the company they formerly worked for until that…

“If I was told to be myself in a commentator role that clearly had more of a PG-13 sort of setting, I’m not gonna be cursing. I can still be myself, though. I’ll just omit anything that comes to mind that’s clearly not appropriate for the context...

He is not “esports” he is a manchild with humor stylings best served amongst the junior high school demographics.

This just reads to me as a big manchild trying to justify his shitty behavior. Which could be unfair, but really.

So there’s a few things here. One, Harding is kind of representative of an earlier period in esports / streaming culture. So him getting fired like this for “being himself” is one of those moments where you can actually see a cultural shift happening.

Newell is not a rookie at this nor unprofessional, and tuned into what makes good business.