Punisher, the player assumed to have played as Ellie, is just another NA ladder player. Not a pro smurf or semipro. It is also possible more than one person played under her name. Correction: The meeting between Blizzard and SW has not yet occurred, will happen in the next hour.
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I have received screenshots of Punisher in a private message conversation with a woman Overwatch player 'Catsui', who was not aware of this incident until recently. Punisher, seen in a Battlenet conversation under Ellie, uses his 'egirl smurf' to grief OWL and other top players.pic.twitter.com/K1Tb2PFVLL
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Catsui tells me over the phone that Punisher also proposed to her a similar 'social experiment' as his playing through/with Ellie, and she says that he apparently had asked several women in the Overwatch community the same.
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And by 'social experiment' I mean 'be a conniving asshole'
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Overwatch Contenders is just an absolute joke of a category. The fact that this even happened just stains the already hurting OW community.
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This random girl came out of nowhere and was insanely good at the game, people started questioning her, one weirdo wanted to dox her to check her ID, she steps down because of all the harassment she got, turns out she wasnt the one playing, it was a guy named Punisher.
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There is a lot more to the story, I had to summarize a lot. But the whole thing is just ridiculous and affects both the OW community and female gamers who are really good at games.
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Lol, she quit because of "harrassment." How about because she is a fraud?
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There was still harassment, that should never have happened to begin with.
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No one said that harrassment doesn't exist. Of course it does, but using as a scapegoat for fraud, as in this case, hurts the narrative even worse. Harrassment as a barrier says more about the individual's grit and character than it says about anything else. Woman or otherwise.
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Trying to utterly eliminate negative human interactions on any basis is a nice thought, but ultimately leads to verbal and mental police states where everything is sacred, therefore nothing is. People grow through adaptation and perseverance. Not victimization. Regardless of sex.
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punisher doing this only hurts women in future gj punisher
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What hurts women the most in Esports is when women who don't have skill are pushed into positions for purely PR reasoning's. Geguri got into the league by being skilled, people like Ellie disrespect actual Female pro's.
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I’m genuinely curious, which women players have been pushed into pro positions for PR reasons? Because I feel like I see a lot of women players actually backing OUT of going pro because of all the potential harassment, doubt, etc.
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There has been girls pushed for PR purposes. The all girls league of legends team Sirens. The all girls Chinese team. If you google either one it’s cringy and the Chinese team was full PR purpose, I don’t believe they ever played.
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Thank you for responding !
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Those Chinese LOL teams weren’t pushed for PR, more for marketing / money making. It’s on record that the women were chosen for looks over skill. It hurts the potential careers of higher-skilled women.
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They’re practically the same and nitpicking in this case means nothing. Both hurt the potential careers for high skilled female players.
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