Asmongold slams Blizzard employees claiming he ruined WoW community: \u201cIt\u2019s disgusting\u201d Twitch: AsmongoldTwitch star Asmongold has hit back at Blizzard employees and haters alike after they claimed he is the reason for the WoW community\u2019s decline. While Asmongold has quickly become the Twitch king of MMOs, his meteoric rise to FFXIV fame and temporary departure from WoW has placed a target on his back. One Blizzard employee actively called the streamer an \u201ca**hole,\u201dprompting mass backlash that eventually led to Asmon pleading with fans to stop sending death threats to the employee in question. It appears that Blizzard\u2019s staff have been implicated in yet another round of Asmongold bashing, however, and he\u2019s having absolutely none of it. Asmongold calls Blizzard commenters \u201cdisgusting\u201d In an August 10 tweet, the streamer noted \u201crecently more than ever I\u2019ve been accused of harassment when I\u2019ve had the audacity to defend myself and my community.\u201d Concluding with \u201cI don\u2019t punch down, I don\u2019t punch up, I punch back,\u201d he\u2019s gone on-stream to clarify why he made the tweet. Recently more than ever I’ve been accused of harassment when I’ve had the audacity to defend myself and my community The idea that I should allow myself to be attacked is driven by narcissism and entitlement. I don’t punch down, I don’t punch up, I punch back \u2014 Zack (@Asmongold) August 10, 2021 \u201cI was reading a lot of comments about this on Twitter saying that it\u2019s my fault the [WoW] community is trash,\u201d he states. \u201cI\u2019m very upset about this, and the reason that I\u2019m mad about it is because I\u2019ve been hearing a lot of people, and this includes Blizzard employees, who have been making comments and giving their seal of approval to these negative comments about me. \u201cHow many people have we seen that have gotten doxxed, and swatted, and had people show up at their house, and weird stalkers and s**t like that. A lot, recently. Too many. And whenever a Blizzard employee gives their stamp of approval to a comment that vilifies me as a person, it enables that behaviour. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not your personal account when you are verified because you work at Blizzard. It is absolutely disgusting. And the entitlement, that people think they can say that negative s**t about me and I have to measure myself and just sit there and take it \u2013 suck a f**king d**k. \u201cEnabling that behavior, people trying to bring this into my real life\u2026 I talk about the game, I talk about things I don\u2019t like about the game. You make it personal. It\u2019s disgusting, and I\u2019m tired of it. It enables that kind of behavior, it makes those people feel righteous in the way they act when they take things over the line. I did nothing.\u201d Concluding that \u201cI never put anyones names or words in my mouth, they do that to me,\u201d he notes \u201cI\u2019m probably more angry about this than I should be, but I am. I am extremely upset about this. And it\u2019s not just people that work at Blizzard, it\u2019s also people that work on WoWhead.\u201d \u201cI want to let anybody know: if you subtweet about me or you talk about me, or you make hate threads about me, and you\u2019re a community member, I\u2019m going to call your b**ch a** out. I don\u2019t care. Don\u2019t make a community talking s**t about me as a person\u2026 If you turn and you make it personal, I\u2019ll make it twice as personal.\u201d Importantly, at the beginning of the segment he highlights that he\u2019s \u201cno white knight,\u201d but goes on to note that when he has done bad things \u201che takes accountability for them,\u201d something that he clearly hopes Blizzard and his haters will do in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asmongold slams Blizzard employees claiming he ruined WoW community: \u201cIt\u2019s disgusting\u201d Twitch: AsmongoldTwitch star Asmongold has hit back at Blizzard employees and haters alike after they claimed he is the reason for the WoW community\u2019s decline. While Asmongold has quickly become the Twitch king of MMOs, his meteoric rise to FFXIV fame and temporary departure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}