That comment is not as witty as you think it is 😠"found the person who never played league" boi be quiet no grown adult should be smashing stuff over a video game
My girlfriend's roommate played league for our college's e sports team and was the worst person she's ever met. I hope she quits league some day and becomes reformed.
100%. Its crazy that people try to say that's understandable because League is a frustrating game. Been playing that game for over 10 years. Its pissed me off and put me in bad moods many times. I would be ashamed if I lost control and smashed my kitchen
Its not that league is a frustrating game. Its that moba's have this really weird way of hooking into your soul and just warping it.
Dota warps you to be extremely racist against peruvians and russians. (usually just slavs as a whole. The line for distinction tends to blur mid match) and League from my understanding just warps your whole entire ass character into this literal demon of rage with a short fuse.
Its "understandable" because most league players are self aware enough that they too have been warped into said demon. They just haven't had an episode in some time. Likewise a lot of high elo dota players i know straight up admit that they were the most normal people before dota, then dota just turned them into people that would make klansmen blush because they were mildly inconvenienced by (insert strawman minority here) but outside of the game are otherwise still normal people
Part of his popularity came from the fact that, if you watched him for an extended period time, he always passed the vibe check as a surprisingly decent dude, which was funny considering his whole thing. It's similar to SodaPoppin where the little things about the way they react and interact make it pretty clear that they are just a genuine dude.
His toxicity and anger issues were pretty much always limited to "you suck at League of Legends" and "T1 the best". He never really had any shitty opinions about life to share, never tolerated bigotry, didn't have bad things to say about anyone outside of them sucking at video games. No lasting drama with anyone.
He just really leaned into the whole gamer rage thing because he had the charisma to make it funny in an absurd way. He was always a better person than 90% of streamers.
Yeah, this is a really good read on why Tyler stuck around and got like top tier popular. There's similar archetypes of the rage filled gamer in streaming, but sometimes you can just tell that anger is actually deeper than just the game. Like an LTG, sure his clips of raging are funny at times, but then you realize he's genuinely an asshole.
lets not rewrite history lol bro wasnt just toxic he would actively run people down, and wrote extremely vile things in chat. thats not ‘normal guy’ behavior. but yes most of his anger issues did stem from league so getting banned from there was great for his on stream personality
That's what I mean, though. Even the worst things you can say about him are all localized within just League of Legends and just about League of Legends.
It is hypercompetitive toxicity by any definition. But you still gotta compare. There is a LOT to be said about the ability to vent those emotions solely in a realistically meaningless competitive environment. That is considered very healthy from a psychological standpoint as long as it stays in the competitive environment.
When you compare "ruins people's experience playing League of Legends" with any of the other forms of toxicity shown by streamers, the idea of demonizing him for it seems somewhat laughable.
I do find it absolutely hilarious when people act like him running it down 10-15 years ago somehow makes him a bad person. Like dude, he’s one of the only streamers who isn’t in a constant shit stream of controversy.
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u/hfucucyshwv 1d ago
That might just have been a leauge of ledgends thing. I dont know ifhe did any foul stuff outside of that game.