PewDiePie mocks outrage surrounding Overwatch Contenders\u2019 \u2018Ellie\u2019 scandal PewDiePie, YouTube \/ BlizzardYouTube\u2019s biggest creator, Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg, spoke out on Overwatch Contenders\u2019 \u2018Ellie\u2019 scandal, appearing to take issue with mass outrage surrounding the situation. PewDiePie addressed the debacle in a \u2018Pew News\u2019 segment on January 10, where he claimed that concerned players merely wanted proof of \u2018Ellie\u2019s\u2019 identity, noting that Second Wind\u2019s Contender roster listed the full name of each of their players \u2013 with the exception of Ellie, whose name was merely written as \u201cFuck Off.\u201d \u201cI think it\u2019s a pretty normal reaction in the pro player scene, there\u2019s only a certain amount of people,\u201d Pewds said of the issue. \u201cIf someone appears out of nowhere\u2026 it\u2019s only natural that people are going to ask, \u2018Who is this person?\u2019\u201d PewDiePie went on to speculate that pro player \u2018Punisher,\u2019 who had impersonated \u2018Ellie\u2019 for an alleged \u201csocial experiment,\u201d was making a statement to showcase a kind of \u2018affirmative action\u2019 within the game\u2019s esports scene. \u201cMaybe the fact that this guy, Punisher, can\u2019t join a pro team, but as soon as he pretends to be a girl, literally four days and voila! He\u2019s part of a pro team!\u201d PewDiePie laughed. PewDiePie likewise mocked the media\u2019s coverage of the scandal, arguing that harassment against \u2018Ellie\u2019 was justified due to the lack of personal information available about the persona. \u201c\u2026the same thing would have happened if it were a guy,\u201d he stated. The third woman, another OW player, says Punisher asked her to talk for him while he was playing. She said he would count down 3-2-1 as the cue. It\u2019s believed Punisher has many women to talk for him and possibly someone close to help, but the online presence of \u2018Ellie\u2019 is fake. \u2014 Rod Breslau (@Slasher) January 6, 2019 A rising-star account under the name \u2018Ellie\u2019 competing for Overwatch Contenders team Second Wind was discovered to be fraudulent, as stated by an Overwatch League representative on January 6. Since then, the \u2018Ellie\u2019 account was revealed to be operated by pro player \u2018Punisher,\u2019 who reportedly asked \u201cmany women\u201d to speak over the mic while he played in order to keep up the facade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PewDiePie mocks outrage surrounding Overwatch Contenders\u2019 \u2018Ellie\u2019 scandal PewDiePie, YouTube \/ BlizzardYouTube\u2019s biggest creator, Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg, spoke out on Overwatch Contenders\u2019 \u2018Ellie\u2019 scandal, appearing to take issue with mass outrage surrounding the situation. PewDiePie addressed the debacle in a \u2018Pew News\u2019 segment on January 10, where he claimed that concerned players merely wanted proof […]<\/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-57403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57403","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=57403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}