because it’s the bare minimum. He figures that if he bullshits an apology it would make him seem like less of a shitbag.

Instead his whole apology makes him sound like a sociopath.

Remember that time I went to buy smokes and never came back? Jokes on you I don’t even smoke.

“I thought it would be fun to convince a lot of people that care about me that I would fucking die,” he said.

most people also don’t post multiple times in the same comment field to passive-aggressively defend some washed-up youtuber desperate for attention after outing themselves as a compulsive liar

Walks out on my family and pops back into my kids’ lives after they’ve grown up

That was already a big yikes from me but his comments make it so, so much worse. This guy is a grade A piece of shit. He basically just told everybody “it was just a prank, bro.” his apology is so unsatisfactory too, which like, duh, YouTube apology. There are real people that suffer from illnesses and he insulted…

“I am of the opinion you should be able to joke about anything you want as long as it’s funny, but in this case, it really wasn’t funny,” he said. “I really don’t have an excuse. I mean, what can I say, I just really love the feeling of taking someone for a ride.”

But then the entire team management would be complicit in any of these, which would basically destroy the team’s future when it ultimately came out. That seems extremely unlikely.

The only winning move is to never play their “prove it!/Debate me!” game. block them, mute them, silence them, kick them out, and never give them what they want.

This is exactly correct. There is absolutely ZERO proof she could have provided that would have been an acceptable enough for them. Her great mistake was thinking sexist gamers could be reasoned with or talked down with evidence.

The only winning move is to never play their “prove it!/Debate me!” game.  block them,…

Ellie is one of very few women in Blizzard’s Overwatch Contenders league, and some fans speculated that she could be any number of notable male players impersonating a woman.

Yup. Even if I were the best player of any given game I know (which I’m not, not by a longshot) I’d never consider trying to be a pro, or a streamer. It’s not worth the hassle. 

Ellie played Overwatch on stream and even brought on one player she was suspected of being, a top-500 player named Punisher, to prove that they were different people.

Esports is not a meritocracy; it’s a male-dominated scene in which gender essentialism runs rampant, and in which women are often made to feel unwelcome.

Insecurity, self-esteem issues, sexist attitudes, and entitlement of stellar proportions.

Guess it’s just another one of those days that I’m embarrassed of the culture surrounding my primary hobby. What is wrong with people?

Of course it will. And Minnesota Nice isn’t going to cut it here. Salt the earth with this motherfucker. Put out every negative ad you can. And when he complains about the nasty tone of the campaign (he will), suggest that he’s too emotional for politics. Literally do not start one debate rebuttal without dismissively…

Am convinced it increased his support. This is the age of Trump.

They absolutely should, but too many people in this country believe that women with opinions, convictions, and the will to see them heard should be “put in their place.”

There’s both a masturbatory and Offred fantasy playing out in this interaction that far too many citizens of this nation are indulging in—and that’s…

What a fucking douche. People need to punish this sort of shit.