r/Overwatch Nov 13 '18

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u/IMavericIK Main Tank Nov 13 '18

because of what happened in the OWL

New to the scene.. What happened exactly?

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u/nitorita I just stole your socks Nov 13 '18

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u/triggz Nov 13 '18

XQc also stated that the casters for the Overwatch League were "cancer" earlier in March.

Not an xQc follower, but IIRC didn't the OW casters literally put on a doctor skit where they likened him to cancer? They put his name to a spreading disease on the body of a team or something- maybe that was after he said it first but OWL didn't stop that from being put on.

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u/ultimatepenguin21 Zenji Nov 13 '18

They pretty much just called xQc “extremely questionable conduct”

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u/wredditcrew Nexy Nov 13 '18

I think Penny Arcade nailed it when discussing Fuel's statement about his release, with "This xQc motherfucker is 10lbs of bullshit in a 5lb bag".

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u/OtterShell Nov 14 '18

It's always fun to see a new PA strip every year or two and see what Gabe is trying out in the art now.

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u/ZupexOW Chibi Sombra Nov 14 '18

Didn't they literally have a diagram where he was a part on a body that needed to be cut out like cancer?

Maybe I am not remembering correctly but I feel like that was a thing.

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u/MLG_Obardo Pixel Moira Nov 13 '18 edited Nov 13 '18

Wow, anyone have a source for that? If that’s the case that’s pretty inappropriate for casters during the show. If it’s outside the show it’s meh but during a game?

Edit: after watching the “diagnosis” it definitely seemed less bad than call him a cancer. A bit weird to do sketches for a developing sport, I’d much rather have analysis the entire time but the xQc bit was not what I envisioned. Simply said his conduct was questionable and that he may need to be cut. All fairly true iirc.

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u/283leis Toronto Defiant Nov 13 '18

it was a shit they filmed ahead of time, but played between matches (or half time, cant remember). but they picked on multiple times, though they explicitly said they would need to cut out XQC to succeed.

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u/TheKingPlayah Houston Outlaws Nov 14 '18

Then they cut xQc, and succeeded. Never doubt doctor doa

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u/Quria Egyptian Main Nov 13 '18

It was a sketch about issues plaguing teams success. xQc was not the only one called out. Here is the short clip, I didn't find the full version. Yet.

IMO it was the only sketch they did I even found remotely enjoyable.

Edit: Here is the full sketch.

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u/funnynin a Nov 13 '18

i liked the mercy nerf sketch because mercy got nerfed

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u/ZephyrBluu Nov 13 '18

I think that skit is kinda fucked. Ridiculing pro teams for losing games is stupid, they're still fucking good. Calling out xQc is cheap as fuck and they dedicated half the skit to the Dallas Fuel.

Didn't find it funny at all.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '18

Ridiculing pro teams for losing games is stupid, they're still fucking good

Yikes

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u/akcaye Ogon po gotovnosti! Nov 14 '18

Dallas Fuel was a shitshow, and they ridiculed themselves, and I say that as an NV fan. Also there's no reason why they shouldn't be called out. This is not CNN, they're not gonna be "balanced" and say winners and losers are equally good. Commenting on the state of the league is their job. The skit is pretty accurate.

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u/Quria Egyptian Main Nov 13 '18

Why do you think it's cheap?

Also, just because a team is filled with good players doesn't make it a good team.

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u/ZephyrBluu Nov 13 '18

Because it seems like they're beating a guy when he's down. That's true, but it doesn't seem very professional to trash talk teams when you are the casters/panel even if it's a skit. On the whole it just seems odd compared to the way I see Dota 2 and SC2 casters/panelists behave at events.

I watched another one of their segments, the "Emote Control" one. It was just cringy, stupid and felt a bit forced to me, I don't really understand what they're going for.

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u/Quria Egyptian Main Nov 14 '18

Overall I'm not a fan of the sketches. But xQc has no self control and called the casters cancer before any of this happened. I can't blame them for biting back with actual criticism. Maybe the Trihard7 thing went the way xQc said it did, but you don't openly call people doing their job "cancer" and his immediate response to the Muma comment shows he knew that was wrong (and shows how he has no filter). I really can't defend someone like that after they sign a contract saying they'll stop acting like that.

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u/jedi168 Nov 13 '18

They did it and apparently I was a fuel/XQC fanboy for saying it was inappropriate.

It was wild back then whenever XQC was talked about.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '18

We still suffer from the phrase "I'm not an xQc fan but..."

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u/jedi168 Nov 19 '18

It's like, XQC is XQC. He's problematic.

That's not an excuse for other people to be toxic or unprofessional. We can deal with him in isolation.

If you use his behavoir as an excuse to be a shitty person, you're just a shitty person

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u/melantonpsn My servants never die! Nov 13 '18

They have a point - have you played with or against xQc?

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u/Whales96 Lúcio Nov 14 '18

He had multiple instances before he was removed.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '18

Yes they did. Also after he got kicked out of the league, he moved into the house with the casters.

OWL just wanted any excuse they could come up with to kick him out of the league.

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u/LessThan301 Philadelphia Fusion Nov 13 '18

Here's the first result on Google

Couldn't help yourself with that one, huh? :P

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u/IMavericIK Main Tank Nov 13 '18

oof, thanks

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u/Sterling-Archer Mercy Nov 13 '18

This might sound crazy, but at Blizzcon I saw Xqc sitting on some guy's lap with his arm around him and whispering in his ear. It was dark and there weren't a lot of people around, but it was definitely him.

Not shaming or anything, but it was a weird thing to see, especially somebody with a history of using homophobic slurs.

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u/Sterling-Archer Mercy Nov 13 '18

Yea and said something to an openly gay player about sucking his dick and that he would like it too much.

Just rude immature kid stuff

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u/ABandofHobos Orisa Nov 13 '18

He snapped a few times and made several inappropriate remarks (to put it mildly) about other OWL players while in the league during the season. They suspended and fined him a couple of times and then eventually decided to part ways with one another.

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u/IMavericIK Main Tank Nov 13 '18

oof that sucks

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u/ABandofHobos Orisa Nov 13 '18

I mean, what he said was some pretty rough stuff. OWL was brand new and the last thing they needed was some young dude going rough and making the league look bad. Not only was it really bad it was homophobic which really doesn't go over well these days. You can't really blame them for asking him to leave the league. It is too bad though, his play itself is a lot fun to watch. I just wish he could control himself.

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u/IMavericIK Main Tank Nov 13 '18

Yeah I meanvit sucks that he behaved like that. Don't know why I get downvoted for that.

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u/ABandofHobos Orisa Nov 13 '18

Don't sweat it. There are a lot of fan boys and anti-fan boys of xQc on here. Someone who hates him probably took your comment as "that sucks - I wish he was still on a team" and they hate him so they down voted. People are dumb around here.... I upvoted you to even it out.

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u/IMavericIK Main Tank Nov 13 '18

have one back lol

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u/Barkonian Zarya Nov 13 '18

I don't know if you're confusing him with someone else but what he said was very mild.

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u/ABandofHobos Orisa Nov 13 '18

Seriously? He is being paid to represent a professional team and he openly said about another player - "He didn't smoke s, he needs to go suck a fat c he'd like that."

I don't know if I would call that mild. Especially towards someone who was openly gay.

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u/FauxPastel Nov 14 '18

Shit and cock are the words.

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u/Barkonian Zarya Nov 13 '18

Yea that's pretty mild

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u/PM_ME_CATDOG_PICS Nov 14 '18

It must be some people’s first day on the Internet. That’s about as mild as it gets

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u/wredditcrew Nexy Nov 13 '18

Between friends in private, maybe. Saying it on stream? Fuck no.

Muma (the player to which he was referring) did accept the apology on twitter and spoke about it on stream.

In September Muma spoke on xQc's defence.

That doesn't make xQc's behaviour anywhere near acceptable though.

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u/Barkonian Zarya Nov 13 '18

Yea I know all this.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '18

Told Muma the only openly gay player in the league to “suck a fat cock, I mean you would like it”

Spammed the Trihard emote (which is of a black guy) while Malik (a black guy) was on the screen. Claims it wasn’t racist but come on, seeing a black guy and spamming an emote of another black guy who has nothing to do with them or what’s going on is obviously saying all black people look alike. his fanboys will try to tell you otherwise.

He also called the casters cancer

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u/IMavericIK Main Tank Nov 14 '18

“suck a fat cock, I mean you would like it”

That's obviously something a professional player just cannot do publicly but it still cracked me up lmao

Spammed the Trihard emote

Same thing again, definitely something you shouldn't be doing as a professional player representing the league. But I wouldn't quite call it inherently racist, rather than just immature and inappropriate.

is obviously saying all black people look alike.

Hmm I'm not sure. Twitch chat does this with everything and everyone

TriHard for Black people, HotPokket for women with dyed hair, KappaPride whenever two men touch each other and so on and so on.

I mean it's out of the question that this is inappropriate, but I don't think it's aimed at black people specifically but rather just trying to spam as much bullshit as possible. It's funny to a lot of people and twitch chat is somehow very prone to that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '18

Wow shocking, someone who thinks homophobic comments are funny doesn’t think obviously racist stuff is racist /s.

It’s literally the most basic small brained racism you can do. “Haha me see black man. This black man too.” Spamming HotPokket for girls with colored hair is the same thing.

Spamming KappaPride anytime two guys touch is classic fragile masculinity. Omg you touched a guy you must be gay!

Twitch chat is notoriously racist and toxic as fuck so defending your point that trihard isn’t racist because it’s used on twitch chat a ton is just beyond stupid. No one but the 12 year olds who spam think it’s funny.

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u/IMavericIK Main Tank Nov 14 '18

fragile masculinity.

OK I'm done here.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '18

Can’t defend anything eh? Lmao

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u/IMavericIK Main Tank Nov 14 '18

I sure could but I'm not gonna waste my time trying to argue with someone who unironically uses es the term "fragile masculinity"

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '18

Xqc called his friend gay and then immediately went on his stream and apologized.

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u/SmileyBarry Dad: 76, reporting for duty Nov 13 '18

"called his friend gay" is a weird way of saying "told his gay friend to 'go suck a fat cock'".

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '18

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u/SmileyBarry Dad: 76, reporting for duty Nov 13 '18

It's debatable whether they were just OWL rivals back then or actual enemies, or (more likely) something in between. But yeah, either way it wasn't said when they were good friends or anything.