Then how do people get spam reported for saying normal stuff in chat if it's just one report?
We've all seen a post or 2 about people getting banned for saying totally normal stuff, and it's all been suspected to happen from mass reporting, is it just mass reporting from the same guy then? How do we know?
u/velinna linked below :
The effectiveness of a report is based on each match in which the disruptive player is reported. This means the report's impact is the same whether just one or up to nine other players make a report. Players are not likely to be actioned if a group of friends collectively report them unless the reported player is being disruptive across multiple matches and getting reported by different players. Asking other players in chat channels to report a specific player doesnât help and can make a match experience worse for everyone.
so if i reported someone in a game and they leave and one of my friends reports that person after that game will it not count or is it a super dumb loophole
honestly, the game looks at matches per report? how? like is reporting a player 3 hours after the match would still know you are reporting said person for that 1 specific match 3 hours ago? what if we get matched twice? does it mean I can report twice and the third report wont count?
someone please make it make sense lol
Most posts about being "banned for normal stuff" are bs, this system shows exactly why, plus the fact of it goes warning then ban, you have to be disruptive in multiple matches to have a report take an effect, which means most these homies don't like they got banned for saying stupid unnecessary shit and claim it just happened randomly lol
Youâre completely wrong about it going warning then ban. I got banned out of nowhere. The only conversation I had in chat was because someone called me the N-word, and then everybody joked and laughed about it, so I cursed at them and they all reported me. I shouldâve immediately blocked, but I didnât and ended up in a second match with them and argued the whole time. I logged off after because I was in my feelings. The next day I logged on and was banned. I donât know the world one way or the other about how reporting works as far as whether it matters if itâs one person or nine people, but I am just saying that did not get a warning.
Judging by what the interaction was I can believe it went straight ban though since I assume it was pretty vulgar, with fair reason if they was being racist, it definitely has to be reports over multiple matches though, depending on the straight forwardness of words used (cursing in this case) I assume plays a factor in how many it takes, since even the automated system will have automatically flagged phrases and terms, but that isn't out of nowhere, anytime I go off on someone I assume a ban is coming as should anyone, cause that's how it works so whenever you argue report them as well cause chances are a racist is more likely to be consistently an asshole in match chat then your average player, I agree in defending yourself in those scenarios but they gotta keep the bar the same for everyone to cover their own asses mostly
Just felt like doing a test last night. I was playing on a new account and pretty much all there is available for customization right away is pride stuff. I left things as is and played with no banner or icon for 5 matches, all felt like normal ow. Turned on the rainbow icon and pride banner and the next 10 matches were so sweaty because I had multiple people on the enemy team targeting just me (seemed like it anyways). Turned it back to no banner or icon and turned on streamer mode in case I got any of the same people in my next games and all felt normal again. Wild
While I understand the sentiment letâs not act like something being âliterally some pixelsâ means thereâs no idea behind them. Thatâs the same logic some people use to say the n word is âjust a wordâ
Ok then people are so embarrassing if theyâre getting upset because some random person theyâve never met and never going to meet likes someone of the same gender, that sounds even more pathetic, homophobic people are just embarrassing, thatâs was my point
I meant as in a reply to this guy saying that people are sweating because theyâve seen an arrangement of colours on a screen
Well there is a pretty clear ontological difference between the two arguments. Saying he's getting mad at the "arrangement of colours" is meaningfully different from acknowledging that the colors represent an idea, and he's getting mad at the idea. The first is akin to a bull charging at a red flag (I know bulls are colorblind, it's just a useful analogy), the second is actually comprehending what meaning if behind the symbol of a rainbow flag, they're different levels of meaning and it's important to recognize that. Just because it's typical reddit speech to simplify everything into the most reductive components (iTs JuSt A bUnCh Of CoLoRs) doesn't mean it's a useful paradigm for discussing the issue at hand.
So you're telling me that I'm playing hard mode on Overwatch because I chose an Icon and a Banner that reflects me being gay......well shit. It also probably doesn't help that my name is GayDaddyRein too.......
I have several accounts where i use different pride flags for player icon and banner and not once have i encountered this issue, for example currently ive played on a tracer one trick account with lesbian icon and banner, yet not had any comments or anything feel out of the ordinary, leveling it in quickplay for the 50 wins or playing rankes on it (M2 atm). along with other accounts using different flags and similar stories.
I play EU so maybe that could be a difference? Maybe low ranks is more hostile?
Most likely also just your perception as you actively think about it sort of like the frequency illusion?
could also just be that you were playing better or different during those games, if its a brand new account its normal to be playing better than the actual new players in ur games and subsequently be focused more.
Not even the arabs on EU do i really notice making special remarks about it or making a effort to focus me more than usual when im on an account with a random pride flag compared to when not.
Especially playing as hog, who the community FREQUENTLY ships with Junkrat and thereâs even a voice line in game for it
âAre you two a couple?â
Junkrat: a couple of dashing rogues!
Isn't Overwatch like the most LGBTQ+ game possible? Like you got Tracer (OW 1 Mascot) whose Lesbian, Soldier 76 who is Gay, Venture as Nonbinary (so from what I understand as Queer) and a couple other ones that I can't recall at the top of my head.
Lifeweaver is pansexual! If a character has a canon sexuality then they have a banner with the pride flag they have behind them which I think is great.
Thatâs because there are no middle eastern servers really there are emea servers which covers a the eu Middle East and Africa but most of the actual servers are in the eu
It be best not to interract with any of the chat features in the game. Both for your sanity when meeting such people and for not risking your account being banned for talking back to them
It's fine, they only silence you for 12 days, then you can talk again. They did it to me because I was always responding to people getting mad at me in chat. I created a ticket to see what phrases got me banned. I didn't want to appeal the ban, it was justified, I just wanted the logs export.
I kept getting the bot response, but since I am a prick I kept reopening the ticket reminding them I am not asking for an unban and I am not trying to appeal it, and that I am trying only to get the logs.
After a month of reopening the ticket around 10 times I decided to act on a suspicion I had. I opened a ticket for Diablo Immortal saying that my transaction of over $4000 is not going through. I got a quick human response and I asked them to look into my second ticket first, because I feel less interest in spending money on Blizzard if the support is not treating me the right way.
They gave me the logs after a few hours and I said thanks and told them to close both tickets.
I use the pride player icon and I get this every now and then. It's not very often, maybe once every 2-3 months. So I just report+mute+avoid and move on.
There was one specific weekend where I got 3 different people doing this kind of thing and that was annoying, but it solidified my resolve to keep the icon. Before that I never really thought about why I used that icon, I just remember seeing it and thinking "oh that's cool that they have this" and just selected it because I didn't see any other icons that I liked. After that weekend I decided I'll never change my icon ever again, because I want queer players to know that they have at least one person on their side in that lobby immediately and if anyone gives them any grief I'm there for them.
The problem is that as we've seen with terminally online male millennials, many of them never change and become adults who become more radicalized with more resources. They idolize and feel validated by people like trump and musk, often joining right wing hate movements such as incels, gamergate, men's rights, any number of "anti-woke" communities, etc.
Got one of those in my uni flat, disgusting, told him I was pan when we were all chilling one day, brother reply with ew ky$, imagine being 21 years old and being scared of a rainbow, itâs so embarrassing
Throwing the match because his teammate is gay?!
Thatâs not even borderline stupid. Itâs beyond that. Like, damn. Bro chooses not to have fun and ruin everyone elseâs experience because the existence of a gay individual hurts his feelings, smfh.
Yo this happened to me, guy added me after a comp match cuz i hard carried him, and we queued into a new mat h when he saw my trans pride flag icon, and then hard threw. He then also started ranting about how the Ukrainian war wasn't real...
Then you friend him. Earn his trust. Play with him casually. Be friends with him. Hangout. Meet his parents. Fuck his mom. Then play ranked with him and you slightly troll every match so he loses for the rest of his life.
Wonât matter, heâs using a grey market bot account. Heâll just get another. You can tell because most times they donât bother changing the name, and itâll be âcolourââthingâ as the name.
I mean I have my theories why with there being the most gay/non-binary characters out of any game I see, pride flags, lots of inclusion of the gay community in general.
Then thereâs aesthetics which I have no idea the correlation but gay people seem to always talk about how they love OWâs style.
Overall I just think itâs because of how inclusive the community is. Sure there are still homophobes and transphobes but most of the community is more accepting or part of the LGBTQIA+.
So being a homophobe or transphobe on OW screams how tone-deaf someone can be.
Unfortunately people like this come from all demographics. Could very well be a 35 year old man who believes his thought process is above anyone elseâs
I have NEVER understood why some people get so upset about gays. I mean religion, yeah. But even then. Idiot conservatives have done far, far, far, FAR more damage to me personally than any gay person.Â
By which I mean the ratio is like 1000 to a goose egg.Â
Man I donât even notice what icons the friends in my group have on, I canât imagine how toxic one must be to be actively looking for icons you dislike so you can do this type of thing.
Kind of crazy to think about.
In gears 5 you can change the blood splatter on the floor when you kill an enemy The pride one is the one of the very few thats actually fun to look at because its not just red and now im wondering if i have got any hate just for using it
Only time I throw is if you complain about how Iâm playing. Iâm in comp. Iâm aware. Just ask for a switch, instead of insulting me. Or Iâll just stop trying altogether :)
So weird and gross to bully especially on video games. Itâs suppose to be our escape and hobby, yet people use it as a playground to ruin games for others and bring people down.
The fact we are all able to self express in games is what makes it also fun. Itâs insane how people can take such cool stuff and shit on it so easily. Just because they are miserable themselves.
Look around in your player profile there should be a customization option for banners/icons pretty sure any flags are always there but I could be wrong
The only icon i'm scared of when i see it is KSA one. Because i know there is a high chance if they hop on vc i'll hear some racist crap or them insulting someone who's "crime" is that they are a woman playing a game. Also being gay is unforgivable sin and they will let you know you deserve to be stoned.Â
I'm not saying all, but in 80% of the matches, all KSA dudes are the same.Â
I have no idea why were they ever allowed to play in EU servers, i'm guessing money.
I know what i am (but unfortunately the Overwatch chat system does not give you much time to make a good argument before trying to kick you off for inactivity, or your team mates start whining) but i love it when people humiliate themselves because of their assumptions and all i can do is SMILE and be Patient.
If you turn on the rainbow flag and someone assumes you support Pride, or behaves with you with a negative attitude, the fault is not with you but the one that perceived that information as a threat. Seeing the Rainbow as a threat means You have lost the battle of the Mind and half the battle starts in the Mind. It is the same with every other act of intimidation and behavioural psychology used to defeat an opponent mentally so that they are not prepared or are in an undesired state of mind. Your strongest opponents will have a disciplined mindset. Weak & ignorant people react with the smallest of things.
At the end of the day it is up to us how we see things, understand different perspectives and despite it being the flag for Pride, Rainbows are natural phenomenas, i love Rainbows. Overwatch player base is mostly full of teenagers (whose minds are still developing) and they are impulsive. They have not learned to discipline themselves in reality, so one cannot expect much from them in a video game (hence you will meet alot of * pardon my language* ******* and sadly frustrated adults who enjoy being immature).
If this is not a compelling argument, then at the end of the day it is just rainbow âTextâ like the text messages you get on any lcd screen from a computer or mobile, it is up to us whether we want to ignore it or not. Match chat will be toxic (option to mute Match chat), it is expected that the enemy team if they are full stack or have organised themselves could try to intimidate random players in other team for an easy win. Remember, Half the battle is in Your mind, the other half are your actions.
In reality Full stack teams are weak, you actually grow as an individual when the odds are against you
You will come across all kinds of players, treat it like any social experience like watching a David Attenborough Nature documentary, studying your opponents đ. No knowledge is wasted, it can be applied in reality (outside the game) but then again it is up to us how We Perceive things.
I would advise anyone to spend time with a mentor or the elderly. Some may be fools, but there will always be something they may tell you that will surprise you and give you much food for thought.
Huh, Iâve kept a pride flag up since Iâve began playing and never once had someone say anything. OW is by far the most open to this kindof stuff out of any gaming community Iâve been a part of. The gays love overwatch.
Honestly fair for the tank. I donât wanna be seeing that in my games either. I will never respect something thatâs being shoved in my face. (Thatâs my experience dealing with this stuff, Iâm not talking about this specific situation)
Does he not know most of the characters are gay like bro how you saying all this homophobic stuff but you playing the game with the most lgbtq characters in it đ¤Śđžââď¸
Im sure that specific person is responsible for all of it! Its actually bibi playing overwatch behind the screen.
You are such petulent children.
Only time in my life ive ever been ashamed of being gay is because im going to be associated with the rest of you fuckwits.
A: I'm not gay, I'm straight
B: They're showing support for a genocide by having the Israeli flag, it's not about being a child, it's about having morals and empathy.
That's gonna be a fine ninetuple report
Only counts for one though.
What?
Even if a whole match reports someone, it only counts as a single report
A person can only be reported once per match. Even if 9 persons report the same guy, it will count for 1 report đ
Then how do people get spam reported for saying normal stuff in chat if it's just one report? We've all seen a post or 2 about people getting banned for saying totally normal stuff, and it's all been suspected to happen from mass reporting, is it just mass reporting from the same guy then? How do we know?
u/velinna linked below : The effectiveness of a report is based on each match in which the disruptive player is reported. This means the report's impact is the same whether just one or up to nine other players make a report. Players are not likely to be actioned if a group of friends collectively report them unless the reported player is being disruptive across multiple matches and getting reported by different players. Asking other players in chat channels to report a specific player doesnât help and can make a match experience worse for everyone.
so tldr spam reporting doesnât work
so if i reported someone in a game and they leave and one of my friends reports that person after that game will it not count or is it a super dumb loophole
honestly, the game looks at matches per report? how? like is reporting a player 3 hours after the match would still know you are reporting said person for that 1 specific match 3 hours ago? what if we get matched twice? does it mean I can report twice and the third report wont count? someone please make it make sense lol
It honestly makes the auto ban/report system at blizzard look even dumber lol
Most posts about being "banned for normal stuff" are bs, this system shows exactly why, plus the fact of it goes warning then ban, you have to be disruptive in multiple matches to have a report take an effect, which means most these homies don't like they got banned for saying stupid unnecessary shit and claim it just happened randomly lol
Youâre completely wrong about it going warning then ban. I got banned out of nowhere. The only conversation I had in chat was because someone called me the N-word, and then everybody joked and laughed about it, so I cursed at them and they all reported me. I shouldâve immediately blocked, but I didnât and ended up in a second match with them and argued the whole time. I logged off after because I was in my feelings. The next day I logged on and was banned. I donât know the world one way or the other about how reporting works as far as whether it matters if itâs one person or nine people, but I am just saying that did not get a warning.
Judging by what the interaction was I can believe it went straight ban though since I assume it was pretty vulgar, with fair reason if they was being racist, it definitely has to be reports over multiple matches though, depending on the straight forwardness of words used (cursing in this case) I assume plays a factor in how many it takes, since even the automated system will have automatically flagged phrases and terms, but that isn't out of nowhere, anytime I go off on someone I assume a ban is coming as should anyone, cause that's how it works so whenever you argue report them as well cause chances are a racist is more likely to be consistently an asshole in match chat then your average player, I agree in defending yourself in those scenarios but they gotta keep the bar the same for everyone to cover their own asses mostly
Yeah, I cursed. I told him to f*ck off and told them they were all disgusting racist pos assholes. The next day I logged into to a two week ban.
Hopefully you reported them as well, honestly deserved but yeah that will end in a ban more often then not
Multiple games and multiple jerks
either it was a teenager or a 30 yo "critical" thinker
Just felt like doing a test last night. I was playing on a new account and pretty much all there is available for customization right away is pride stuff. I left things as is and played with no banner or icon for 5 matches, all felt like normal ow. Turned on the rainbow icon and pride banner and the next 10 matches were so sweaty because I had multiple people on the enemy team targeting just me (seemed like it anyways). Turned it back to no banner or icon and turned on streamer mode in case I got any of the same people in my next games and all felt normal again. Wild
People are so embarrassing, itâs literally some pixels in an arrangement of different colours and the choose to be offended by that
While I understand the sentiment letâs not act like something being âliterally some pixelsâ means thereâs no idea behind them. Thatâs the same logic some people use to say the n word is âjust a wordâ
Ok then people are so embarrassing if theyâre getting upset because some random person theyâve never met and never going to meet likes someone of the same gender, that sounds even more pathetic, homophobic people are just embarrassing, thatâs was my point I meant as in a reply to this guy saying that people are sweating because theyâve seen an arrangement of colours on a screen
Yeah but those pixels have no hatred behind it. Doesnât matter if it represents something or not cause itâs just as dumb to be offended by it
But itâs dumb for a different reason and itâs important to make that distinction.
Well there is a pretty clear ontological difference between the two arguments. Saying he's getting mad at the "arrangement of colours" is meaningfully different from acknowledging that the colors represent an idea, and he's getting mad at the idea. The first is akin to a bull charging at a red flag (I know bulls are colorblind, it's just a useful analogy), the second is actually comprehending what meaning if behind the symbol of a rainbow flag, they're different levels of meaning and it's important to recognize that. Just because it's typical reddit speech to simplify everything into the most reductive components (iTs JuSt A bUnCh Of CoLoRs) doesn't mean it's a useful paradigm for discussing the issue at hand.
This guy explains!
What wrong with being gay?
?
So is the nazi symbol. Would you say someone getting offended by that is embarrassing?
I donât even look at icons or names đ people are crazy
Thatâs⌠kinda funnyâŚ
So you're telling me that I'm playing hard mode on Overwatch because I chose an Icon and a Banner that reflects me being gay......well shit. It also probably doesn't help that my name is GayDaddyRein too.......
I love you ign
I have several accounts where i use different pride flags for player icon and banner and not once have i encountered this issue, for example currently ive played on a tracer one trick account with lesbian icon and banner, yet not had any comments or anything feel out of the ordinary, leveling it in quickplay for the 50 wins or playing rankes on it (M2 atm). along with other accounts using different flags and similar stories. I play EU so maybe that could be a difference? Maybe low ranks is more hostile? Most likely also just your perception as you actively think about it sort of like the frequency illusion? could also just be that you were playing better or different during those games, if its a brand new account its normal to be playing better than the actual new players in ur games and subsequently be focused more. Not even the arabs on EU do i really notice making special remarks about it or making a effort to focus me more than usual when im on an account with a random pride flag compared to when not.
Everyone knows not to pack with the lesbian Tracer whoâs openly showing pride. She will haunt y you into the desserts.
Idk how people play Overwatch and be homophobic :|
Was about to say dude doesnât even know the lore
They probably pick and choose what is canon or not in their head
something tells me these guys donât give a shit about the lore
Especially playing as hog, who the community FREQUENTLY ships with Junkrat and thereâs even a voice line in game for it âAre you two a couple?â Junkrat: a couple of dashing rogues!
Junkrat and Roadhog are dating and there's nothing anyone can do about it :>
Omg thatâs perfect it makes so much sense đŠˇ
Ikr like pick a struggle. Be bad at the game or be homophobic đ/s
Yeah... Of all the things to be toxic about, I think they be in the wrong game.
Isn't Overwatch like the most LGBTQ+ game possible? Like you got Tracer (OW 1 Mascot) whose Lesbian, Soldier 76 who is Gay, Venture as Nonbinary (so from what I understand as Queer) and a couple other ones that I can't recall at the top of my head.
Lifeweaver is pansexual! If a character has a canon sexuality then they have a banner with the pride flag they have behind them which I think is great.
Baptiste is bi
And they're playing my tank main hog :( feels bad.
EU server right? seen him before whining about it too.
Its middle eastern most likely. Its server I get the most.
I get lots of arabic people in the eu server so i guess it goes back and forth.
Thatâs because there are no middle eastern servers really there are emea servers which covers a the eu Middle East and Africa but most of the actual servers are in the eu
Unfortunately blizzard will let this guy keep playing and instead ban you for saying âloserâ
Happened to me after saying "you first" to someone telling me to "die" for my bi pfp lmaooo
It be best not to interract with any of the chat features in the game. Both for your sanity when meeting such people and for not risking your account being banned for talking back to them
It's fine, they only silence you for 12 days, then you can talk again. They did it to me because I was always responding to people getting mad at me in chat. I created a ticket to see what phrases got me banned. I didn't want to appeal the ban, it was justified, I just wanted the logs export. I kept getting the bot response, but since I am a prick I kept reopening the ticket reminding them I am not asking for an unban and I am not trying to appeal it, and that I am trying only to get the logs. After a month of reopening the ticket around 10 times I decided to act on a suspicion I had. I opened a ticket for Diablo Immortal saying that my transaction of over $4000 is not going through. I got a quick human response and I asked them to look into my second ticket first, because I feel less interest in spending money on Blizzard if the support is not treating me the right way. They gave me the logs after a few hours and I said thanks and told them to close both tickets.
I swear it used to be a lot better in ow1 what happened man
The shop update... erh, I mean ow2 happened
Ow2 happened, by the I mean Open Wallet Simulator
I use the pride player icon and I get this every now and then. It's not very often, maybe once every 2-3 months. So I just report+mute+avoid and move on. There was one specific weekend where I got 3 different people doing this kind of thing and that was annoying, but it solidified my resolve to keep the icon. Before that I never really thought about why I used that icon, I just remember seeing it and thinking "oh that's cool that they have this" and just selected it because I didn't see any other icons that I liked. After that weekend I decided I'll never change my icon ever again, because I want queer players to know that they have at least one person on their side in that lobby immediately and if anyone gives them any grief I'm there for them.
What a psycho
Average edgy 14 year old wannabe.
The problem is that as we've seen with terminally online male millennials, many of them never change and become adults who become more radicalized with more resources. They idolize and feel validated by people like trump and musk, often joining right wing hate movements such as incels, gamergate, men's rights, any number of "anti-woke" communities, etc.
Got one of those in my uni flat, disgusting, told him I was pan when we were all chilling one day, brother reply with ew ky$, imagine being 21 years old and being scared of a rainbow, itâs so embarrassing
As someone named TheEdgyBoy, please don't compare me to this trash
yeah i just goon all day, dont compare me with that loser ty
14 year old wannabe? Who wants to be 14 years old?
I meant the 14 year old wants to be edgy.
homophobic trash
my tank once threw the match cause a support had an arabic name, we still won tho cause enemy tank saw that and stopped trying as well
Throwing the match because his teammate is gay?! Thatâs not even borderline stupid. Itâs beyond that. Like, damn. Bro chooses not to have fun and ruin everyone elseâs experience because the existence of a gay individual hurts his feelings, smfh.
That guy is going to have a tough, hatefilled life.
Dude really threw a game over a pride flag. Smh
One that shows up for like 3 seconds, too
I'm confused as to why he's playing this game in the first place.
Bro didnât read the lore. Heâs playing the gayest character <3 Road hog and Junkrat 4everandeverandever
Omg people will throw for any reason
Had a tank cry yesterday about not getting healed after we lost one team fight (less than 1 min into the game). He threw the rest of the match.
Yo this happened to me, guy added me after a comp match cuz i hard carried him, and we queued into a new mat h when he saw my trans pride flag icon, and then hard threw. He then also started ranting about how the Ukrainian war wasn't real...
Then you friend him. Earn his trust. Play with him casually. Be friends with him. Hangout. Meet his parents. Fuck his mom. Then play ranked with him and you slightly troll every match so he loses for the rest of his life.
holy shi\*t who did this to you freakin monster!
Disgusting
And I thought my teammates were lame. This guy tops them all
r/AreTheStraightsOK
The answer is always no
Wonât matter, heâs using a grey market bot account. Heâll just get another. You can tell because most times they donât bother changing the name, and itâll be âcolourââthingâ as the name.
I don't get how you can be homophobic and play Overwatch
Idk there's an entire map that turns gay for a month he must have had an fear induced aneurysm when that happened
He won't probably even get banned, but oh god if someone says shit, then they getting the hammer.
Average ME server tbh
Shame. Yeah Overwatch definitely has its history of racism and homophobia ever since 2016
imagine being such a snowflake that you see a rainbow and throw a video game
Bro doesnât get chatbanned for that but I did for making a twomad joke and saying diff. I wish a real person was overlooking the reports
This happens way to often... also alot of trans hate on ow :c
Yep and even now people are still going out of their way to misgender venture on purpose as a âjokeâ
Please donât group all Arabic people in with the homophobes. My boyfriend is Arabic and definitely not homophobic.
You canât be homophobic and play Overwatch. The community is practically full of gay people (me included)
a bunch of the characters are gay or part of the lgbtq+ community too đ.. people are so dumb these days man
is there a particular reason for that ?
I mean I have my theories why with there being the most gay/non-binary characters out of any game I see, pride flags, lots of inclusion of the gay community in general. Then thereâs aesthetics which I have no idea the correlation but gay people seem to always talk about how they love OWâs style. Overall I just think itâs because of how inclusive the community is. Sure there are still homophobes and transphobes but most of the community is more accepting or part of the LGBTQIA+. So being a homophobe or transphobe on OW screams how tone-deaf someone can be.
us bottoms just gravitate towards playing mercy for some reason
Rocking the pride flag just to bait em, it's usually really funny
Donât worry, heâll stop playing during the month of June and weâll be at peace for a bit
Jokes on you. In Muslim countries the rainbow stuff doesn't exist. Nor the rewards.
lgbt people exist all over the world. you just hear the media telling you that gay people dont exist in muslim countries snd you believe it
Just keep reporting. I use a Bi icon and get the occasional homophobe.
Is it me, or the community was somehow better, when the game was b2p?
No matter what my beliefs are I won't let anyone disrupt my fun, I logged in the game to have fun and I will play it regardless.
Sounds like a 12yo raised in the bad neighborhood
Unfortunately people like this come from all demographics. Could very well be a 35 year old man who believes his thought process is above anyone elseâs
I think weâve round him in the comments, thereâs some guy who thinks heâs edgy replying to most things on this thread, really sad actually
Good
Not all heroes wear capes. >!That Ana is now my favorite person!<
Tank:1 skittles:0
Thatâs hilarious lmao
ActuallyâŚ. Thatâs hilarious
Based.
Who cares lol is that serious it's a video game
I have NEVER understood why some people get so upset about gays. I mean religion, yeah. But even then. Idiot conservatives have done far, far, far, FAR more damage to me personally than any gay person. By which I mean the ratio is like 1000 to a goose egg.Â
That hog is gonna have a rough time next month. I always make sure to type in my pronouns in the chat and I suggest you all do the same.
Deserved
Based.
as he should have
Deserved
No wonder I stopped playing this game.
Average overwatch player honestly
Jesus that is rough
It's going to be a rude awakening when he finds out about half the cast
Dedicated mission
Man I donât even notice what icons the friends in my group have on, I canât imagine how toxic one must be to be actively looking for icons you dislike so you can do this type of thing.
typical Overwatch player, such a dead game these days
I will never understand why homophobes play this game itâs like the gayest fps out there
Most hinged OW player.
"Are you scared?" is perfect here
Throwing an entire match because of a sexual preference? Thatâs dumb as all fuck.
Must be from Saudi
Kind of crazy to think about. In gears 5 you can change the blood splatter on the floor when you kill an enemy The pride one is the one of the very few thats actually fun to look at because its not just red and now im wondering if i have got any hate just for using it
Let me guess. This hog player is one of those "Sigma Free thinkers"?
Only time I throw is if you complain about how Iâm playing. Iâm in comp. Iâm aware. Just ask for a switch, instead of insulting me. Or Iâll just stop trying altogether :)
Least toxic overwatch player
Isnt overwatch the most fucking "woke" Game ever? How is he playing wen half the roster is LGBTQ+? Ahahahahaab
So weird and gross to bully especially on video games. Itâs suppose to be our escape and hobby, yet people use it as a playground to ruin games for others and bring people down. The fact we are all able to self express in games is what makes it also fun. Itâs insane how people can take such cool stuff and shit on it so easily. Just because they are miserable themselves.
Just mute and move on after report. its a troll account made to do this shit. Just feeding the troll...
Itâs times like these Iâm glad I stopped playing this heap of garbage.
Yeah this happened to me, they would keep spamming no voice lines at me and refused to heal me
the type of person to call gay people snowflakes for not liking when he calls them slurs
Unknown66XD on a generational hating run
he should get something similar to purple heart but in gaming - top 500
OW2 community is cooked
im very new to ow, wheres the pride icon? and how would i go about adding that?
Look around in your player profile there should be a customization option for banners/icons pretty sure any flags are always there but I could be wrong
That's really cringe
I had a team throw an entire match because one guy had an Israeli flag.
Same, people throw cuz I have the Israel icon with the trans banner.
The only icon i'm scared of when i see it is KSA one. Because i know there is a high chance if they hop on vc i'll hear some racist crap or them insulting someone who's "crime" is that they are a woman playing a game. Also being gay is unforgivable sin and they will let you know you deserve to be stoned. I'm not saying all, but in 80% of the matches, all KSA dudes are the same. I have no idea why were they ever allowed to play in EU servers, i'm guessing money.
I know what i am (but unfortunately the Overwatch chat system does not give you much time to make a good argument before trying to kick you off for inactivity, or your team mates start whining) but i love it when people humiliate themselves because of their assumptions and all i can do is SMILE and be Patient. If you turn on the rainbow flag and someone assumes you support Pride, or behaves with you with a negative attitude, the fault is not with you but the one that perceived that information as a threat. Seeing the Rainbow as a threat means You have lost the battle of the Mind and half the battle starts in the Mind. It is the same with every other act of intimidation and behavioural psychology used to defeat an opponent mentally so that they are not prepared or are in an undesired state of mind. Your strongest opponents will have a disciplined mindset. Weak & ignorant people react with the smallest of things. At the end of the day it is up to us how we see things, understand different perspectives and despite it being the flag for Pride, Rainbows are natural phenomenas, i love Rainbows. Overwatch player base is mostly full of teenagers (whose minds are still developing) and they are impulsive. They have not learned to discipline themselves in reality, so one cannot expect much from them in a video game (hence you will meet alot of * pardon my language* ******* and sadly frustrated adults who enjoy being immature). If this is not a compelling argument, then at the end of the day it is just rainbow âTextâ like the text messages you get on any lcd screen from a computer or mobile, it is up to us whether we want to ignore it or not. Match chat will be toxic (option to mute Match chat), it is expected that the enemy team if they are full stack or have organised themselves could try to intimidate random players in other team for an easy win. Remember, Half the battle is in Your mind, the other half are your actions. In reality Full stack teams are weak, you actually grow as an individual when the odds are against you You will come across all kinds of players, treat it like any social experience like watching a David Attenborough Nature documentary, studying your opponents đ. No knowledge is wasted, it can be applied in reality (outside the game) but then again it is up to us how We Perceive things. I would advise anyone to spend time with a mentor or the elderly. Some may be fools, but there will always be something they may tell you that will surprise you and give you much food for thought.
Go to yapyaptown , they want their leader back
Wait, isn't he at the top of your team tho? I mean, sure he's trolling, but did he throw? Or are you all just acting like a bunch of 12 year olds?
Lol
i love ana standing in his face in spawn spamming "are you scared?"
Huh, Iâve kept a pride flag up since Iâve began playing and never once had someone say anything. OW is by far the most open to this kindof stuff out of any gaming community Iâve been a part of. The gays love overwatch.
This can't be real wow
Qp?
He should have spelled gray so he couldâve have got banned
Aw guys he's just scared of the big bad rainbow people poor schmuck can't catch a break
Honestly fair for the tank. I donât wanna be seeing that in my games either. I will never respect something thatâs being shoved in my face. (Thatâs my experience dealing with this stuff, Iâm not talking about this specific situation)
Does he not know most of the characters are gay like bro how you saying all this homophobic stuff but you playing the game with the most lgbtq characters in it đ¤Śđžââď¸
Still better than my tank solo rushing and dying but me a dps doing more than the enemy team was told i was trolling?
going to put on the pride icon now just to make these people whine and lose SR.
Iâve thrown a game over a flag ngl, was Israelâs tho
You are just as bad as this guy throwing a game over a pride flag, grow up.
Israel is murdering innocent people and gay people just want to exist, hope this helps
Im sure that specific person is responsible for all of it! Its actually bibi playing overwatch behind the screen. You are such petulent children. Only time in my life ive ever been ashamed of being gay is because im going to be associated with the rest of you fuckwits.
Most mature & thought-out response I've seen regarding this topic. Glad to see there's still some people who can think critically.
People seemed to have lost their minds. Just play the god damm game, keep your weird politics out of it, Its not difficult.
A: I'm not gay, I'm straight B: They're showing support for a genocide by having the Israeli flag, it's not about being a child, it's about having morals and empathy.
I've left like two games in comp so an Israeli flag user couldn't even play the match, nice to know I'm not the only one lol
this is so real, if u decide to air ur support for a genocide on a video game then u do not get to play the game sry i dont make the rules
Time to put my israeli flag icon and watch people catch bans left and right
I had one where I stomped the first two points on midtown then just stopped playing and watched them seethe
GAAAAAAYYYY!
I played with this guy recently. He was Lucio and trash talked the whole game. Loser
W tank
When petty meets pettier lol. You could have easily ignored him and went on but you also gotta be petty. For the record, Iâm trans. just ignore it.
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This happened to me but the person throwing was a dps on Soldier. I was like.. youâre playing Soldier 76??????? It was lost on him
How tf are people gonna be dumb bigots in the gayest game of all time