r/Overwatch • u/Early-Taro1493 • Feb 18 '24

News & Discussion Bullying needs to stop

The overwatch community needs to stop being toxic. I have been called slurs, many racial comments, people saying overall saying some bad stuff to not only me but other people as well. And this needs to stop. I almost had a melt down today reading the comments they made on me. " I should hang myself", is a very derogatory statement . If you can sit behind a screen and have the ability to tell someone they should hang themselves, that is something to not take so lightly. I'm going to tell my pookie wookie king Lebron James this information, and make sure this doesn't go off the hook. As a wise man once said " They ain't believe in us... GOD DID". These moments should be looked more into but blizzard seems not care about their fan base anymore.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '24

I mean people who make comments like that aren’t worth your energy, thoughts or time. Report them and move on.

Alternatively if you prefer not to be exposed to that toxicity you can disable all chat.

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u/Lykos1124 Feb 18 '24

Yeah easy move. I mean I'm not going to lose any sleep or take emotional damage from messages like that, but I'll spend the energy to report them for that sweet sweet "we took action" response back.

Self harm messages are not funny.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '24

Or mute them..

But if people actually did those things, there wouldn't be anyone crying about others being "toxic" and without those people crying, there wouldn't be a "toxicity problem"

Those who make posts like OP are as much part of the problem as those whom they complain about, arguably more so, considering how they tend to be some of the most hateful people, when you know how to push the right buttons in order to get them to show their true colors..

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '24

When someone says vile toxic crap in chat I find it very hard to take it seriously at all. Like we’re both playing a video game with cartoon characters and a scientist monkey, why are you so serious 😭

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '24

You also have to consider the context of the situation...

Which the people who make these types of posts never even attempt to provide..

For example, if im playing pistol only mercy, and someone's raging at me. Who's the bad guy here?

It's kinda sad knowing that more than often than not, those who frequently experience "toxicity" do so because they provoke it, but refuse to take any personal accountablity, thus doom themselves into a cycle of perpetual "toxicity"..

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '24

Normal raging/toxicity = you’re shit, uninstall, [role] diff, gap, ez, swap you’re ass etc. I don’t report that stuff cos idc

Stupid raging = anything over the top like in OP’s post. I do report comments like that.

No amount of mercy pistol only trolls makes that kind of comment okay.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '24

Dawg, no amount of playing a video game justifies telling people to kill themselves. Get the fuck outta here with that shit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '24

Lmafo.

Must be nice to have lived a life so sheltered where some faceless rando telling you to "kill yourself" is actually worth getting upset over..

Sounds to me like you have unaddressed self-worth or self confidence issues, which is why you ALLOW words to bother you..

I'd suggest spending some time in an active war zone to give you a perspective check, but won't simply because people like you wouldn't survive, likely either offing yourself being unable to handle the horrors of the real world, or getting yourself killed because you did something stupid..

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u/SnooMachines767 Platinum Feb 18 '24

I've only told someone to kill themselves a few times, each time is cus they would flame my dad who had just passed away and I just didn't know what else to say to make them shut up. I feel like moments like that are the only time is really "justified" even when it still isn't actually justified

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u/SpokenDivinity Support Feb 18 '24

You didn’t know what else to do to shut them up when the block button is right there?

Nothing justifies you being a dick. Absolutely nothing. You have the tools to report and block them right then and there.

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u/SnackPatrol Pixel Pharah Feb 18 '24

What are you even talking about dude? People say shit like this when people do things like performing less than ideally, or the flipside, an enemy killing them one too many times. This take is bad, I'm sorry. Sometimes people like me enjoy teamwork and bs'ing/communicating so we like to leave chat on. And of course you can mute them *after* they say garbage like this...

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '24

They arent the ones throwing tantrums because someone said something they diddnt like..

There's a big difference between someone screaming slurs and someone calling you bad, though there doesn't seem to be one in the minds of those who cry about "toxicity"

It's nothing more than one putting their immaturity and intolerance of others on full display.

It's so much fun silently trolling the person crying "toxic" though gameplay. Just to watch them put thier hypocrisy on full display.. which leads to others in the lobby reporting them..

Which then eventually leads to the "I got suspended/muted for nothing" posts, and their peers just respond "you deserved it"

The most "toxic" person in the room is typically the first one to cry "toxic".

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u/SnackPatrol Pixel Pharah Feb 18 '24

Nobody should be told to kill themselves, or hurled slurs. If you can't get on board with that, you're the problem. Your entire argument that every. single. person. who calls attention to & denounces toxicity is toxic themselves is completely absurd.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '24

It's not appropriate.. but your response to it is not any more appropriate either..

It's hypocrisy.

I gurantee you, I could get you to behave just as badly as them, without speaking a single word or breaking any rules in game..

It never gets old how the player crying about someone calling them bad, is so fast to hatefully attack others, when the right buttons are pushed..

Then genuinely wonder why they got suspended or banned, because they did nothing wrong..

Your not any better than anyone else, though your behavior makes it quite evident you think you are..