See, this is what I'm getting at with my response earlier today, and my similar posts previously in the year: This shit isn't a community. If it was a community, you wouldn't respond to the CEO of twitch saying "you guys act really sexist/racist/homophobic A LOT" by getting pissed off at him and trying to say "Yeah, but look at all the OTHER sexist/racist/homophobes, why you gotta single US out?"
You'd try to FIX YOUR SHIT so he couldn't hit you with that anymore.
That's what an actual community would do. Instead, this community goes into defense mode, and simply tries to discredit what is pretty obviously by this point - looking at both that PA article and now the AMA both landing on the same day - a decently ingrained conception of this "community."
The "community" never really tries to change itself. It just tries to deflect the negative rep it's earned and tires itself out raging about how unfair it all is before retreating to the status quo. This "community" wants all the benefits of being one without actually putting in the work to be looked at as one. Putting in that work requires the sort of self-correction that people like Spooky does when it comes to knowing what is harmful and cutting it out. Same with Keits. Same with MarkMan.
Blowing this guy up for his shitty mobile site? Perfectly alright. Blowing him up for the tech problems the site constantly has at the worst moments? Have at it. But when the CEO of Twitch specifically thinks your "community" is gross? Maybe there's fuckin something to it.
And there is.
Exactly.
Honzo asked a loaded question. Yeah, it was probably a troll, but unfortunately the divas of the FGC will make it an issue on Twitter.
If Twitch hated the FGC, then you wouldn't see Weeklies and majors on the front page. People just want all fighting game streams on the front page all the time, so that their max CPM hustle can actually put some food on the table, because they don't make good enough content to bring in non-FGC viewers.
How about stopping random CORN dudes from sitting at the commentary booth, asking the camera guy to zoom in to chicks asses in the crowd and then saying 'I'd do her doe'. But the FGC wants it both ways. 'Yo real rap FUCK E-SPORTS'. Shots fired. Yo damn. Get blown up yo. Esports on blast. YAAAASSS!
No. Fuck you. You cannot have it both ways. You don't want to 'go esports', you don't want to censor yourself, you don't want to move away from your roots, you don't want to dampen your hype. That's perfectly fine. But then don't expect the same kind of treatment e-sports gets.
I don't want the FGC to change. Sure, a lot of sexist stuff is said, but I think a majority of it is said nonchalantly because people are used to it, and there's little malice behind it. Do I think its marketable? Hell no. Do I think its in Twitch's interest to promote it? No.
Fact it the FGC has more to gain from Twitch than the other way round. And that's what stings many of these guys. Its about time someone exposes the double standard in the FGC like the FGC likes to put so many people on blast. Hold dat L.
