Streamer FRAN completely quits Twitch and Overwatch amid NFT backlash Twitter: FRANA_OWOverwatch Twitch streamer and Toronto Defiant member, Francine \u2018FRAN\u2019 Vo, has announced that she will no longer be streaming or playing the game she has become best-known for. Her decisions follows some backlash over NFTs. In the wake of a tweet claiming that the number one NFT in trade is, in fact, produced by the Overwatch team, in response to criticism from Overwatch fans about her own adoption of NFTs, FRAN received backlash from some the game\u2019s fanbase. Referring to the incident as a \u201cdumpster fire,\u201d she has gone on to apologize for the tweet and her responses in a lengthy January 24 Twitlonger. In the post, FRAN said that she will no longer be streaming or playing Overwatch \u2013 even when the highly anticipated sequel, Overwatch 2 is finally released. Overwatch streamer FRAN leaves Twitch Discussing the difficulties she\u2019s experienced while streaming, she confesses that \u201cstreaming for me was not as easy as it may have looked.\u201d \u201cI was harassed almost every single day since my franplayshalo days, whether it be a creepy comment to full-on nonconsensual pictures in my DMs. I was constantly scrutinized for the way I looked and it caused massive insecurities and low self-esteem in myself. The extreme loneliness and unhealthy habits I\u2019ve developed from streaming caused an abundance of harm. And don\u2019t get me started on the bullying. My entire self-worth was dependent on likes and numbers. I wish to never have to experience that again.\u201d She continues, \u201cI mentioned before on stream that I was moving home to take care of my parents, particularly my father who had a stroke and subsequent seizures, and I did\/am doing exactly that. In last few months I have been much happier and repaired my relationship with my family, who I had abandoned the last five years to \u2018go play video games for a living.’\u201d Answering the questions \u201cWill I play Overwatch ever again? Probably not, and Overwatch 2 won\u2019t change my mind. Will I ever stream again? Probably not,\u201d she concludes, \u201cI would like to close this chapter of my life and move on.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/FRANA_OW\/status\/1485831110814842882 FRAN leaves a legacy of Overwatch content behind her, and has etched herself into the game\u2019s history. But, at least for the time being, we may not see her in the public eye again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Streamer FRAN completely quits Twitch and Overwatch amid NFT backlash Twitter: FRANA_OWOverwatch Twitch streamer and Toronto Defiant member, Francine \u2018FRAN\u2019 Vo, has announced that she will no longer be streaming or playing the game she has become best-known for. Her decisions follows some backlash over NFTs. In the wake of a tweet claiming that the […]<\/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-59394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59394","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=59394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}