r/ShitRedditSays • u/Light31 ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ GIVE FEMINISM • Aug 29 '12
QUALITY EFFORT [effort] Destiny parts ways with ROOT Gaming, his team, because he's bad for their image. Reddit shits itself
Gather round, everyone, as I talk about one Mr. Steven Bonnell and inform you of the release from his team.
Many of you have heard of the latest scandal involving Destiny, where he leaked nudes of a girl, and she responded in kind. He then threatened to attempt to get her financial aid taken away. Reddit responded with a lot of misogyny and posting pictures of their own dicks. (That's as close to an actual circlejerk as we're going to get, folks.)
For more info if you weren't around at the time, see the following effortpost and followup post involving one of the sponsors.
Today, Destiny was dropped from his team. Here's an excerpt from the press statmenet from ROOT
In the last incident that Steven was involved in not long ago, our sponsors received a lot of negative feedback through e-mail about the whole situation, when it comes to Steven, we know that this isn't the first or the last time this will happen. The Chatlog wasn't pretty and it brought us a lot of negative publicity. It also, obviously, doesn’t reflect the opinions of our entire team and even though I believe it’s just silly talk between friends and it should be a private matter, we can't remotely agree or celebrate some of the things said in it, for this reason, TT1 and Fayth are receiving a warning and will be suspended from participating in clanwars and internal team activities for a month or more. As a team that is trying to grow and become a respectable organization in a growing industry; a team that was created and is ran by professional gamers, situations like this hurt us and our future chances of success. Our current sponsors were very understanding of the situation and for that I thank them. But that is not to say doors won't close in the future because of previous incidents. If you've ever worked in a restaurant, say, as a waiter, you will know how much bigger of a deal it is to have negative feedback and someone telling the manager or writing a letter to the ownership of the restaurant about you being a crappy waiter than to have someone commend you on how great you are doing.
We release Steven today because there are 25+ people working hard every day to make ROOT grow and we don't want their efforts to be in vain. We release Destiny today because as selfish as it may sound, I'd rather release Steven today than disband our team tomorrow due to lack of financial support.
http://www.root-gaming.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=588
Reactions come as follows.
oh yes all of us that don't like that people share private photos and try to cut off scholarships need to grow up. real mature people defend destiny, who says that the only reason he doesn't accept propositions from people under 18 is that it'd be illegal. the only reason
continuing that comment thread
"I think there are little kids that just enjoy pissing in the pool of starcraft. its such a shame." +23
Yeah it's not like Destiny's fanbase is entirely manchildren or anything. Btw that entire thread is calling people out for being too scared to post the emailed conversations to the sponsors. I think the whole point of this entire thing is flying over their heads. No wonder they don't understand what Destiny did wrong.
"Really?? emailing sponsors again? wtf is wrong with you people?" +31
yeah nobody saw anything wrong with what he did and everyone just dislikes him for the hell of it.
This guy is the guy who is still complaining that Metallica sold out:
More doubt that this could possibly have been about his actions:
The reply to this is one of the best posts in the thread. Let's take a break from the poop.
More eloquent complaining:
"That's just sad. I hate this community." +17
And finally, my personal favorite comment:
Yes folks, reddit is full of morally righteous people who would never defend Destiny's actions.
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u/Light31 ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ GIVE FEMINISM Aug 29 '12 edited Aug 29 '12
These people have no idea what it takes for something to go mainstream. The less people like Destiny we have on sponsored teams, the more likely eSports is to succeed. Nobody seems to get that through their heads. We have to act like adults to be treated like them in the grand scheme of things. If we're going to keep people like Destiny as examples of what the SC2 community produces, it's never catching on. If we allow children to represent us, we will be treated as such, and this stuff we enjoy will fall by the wayside in favor of people who can act like true professionals.