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[aoe4] Summary of the KillerPigeon AoE4 Situation | CrackedyHere [he's quitting aoe because he's being punished for refusing to apologise for a distasteful joke] (www.youtube.com)

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

TL;DW is: he made these distasteful jokes in Twitch chat on one of the biggest tournament streams where he was a host:

KillerPigeon: #StopObjectifyingVillagers | Sorry, I left 20cm in your mum | Guys chill, I donated a kidney to her | Only fair after I rammed her so hard she coughed one out

The joke was kinda distasteful at first, but easy to shrug off IMO. But then he doubles down with a bunch more increasingly distasteful jokes that become harder to ignore.

He could so easily have apologised and I suspect everyone would have moved on. That would have been the end of it. But for some reason he has steadfastly refused to do so.

He initially received a 90 day suspension from Microsoft for this, later reduced down to 30 days. And he was removed from casting the Red Bull Wololo: Londinium tournament in April. In retaliation, he announced he's cancelling his weekly tournament and pulling out of aoe4 entirely.

IMO, it says a lot about the guy's character that he refuses to make a simple apology here. There's just no reason not to.

[–] Aquila@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is the most vanilla shit Better headline

Aoe4 prudes force commentator to quit over your momma joke

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago

Way to miss the point entirely.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do people take momma jokes seriously? Cause I sure don't. If this is all that was said and there's not further context missing.... it's kinda funny.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago

Like I said, if it was only the first one I'd have said it's a non-issue and should just be brushed off.

But he doubled and tripled down, taking it from a simple one-off "yo mumma" joke into some rather gratuitously explicit sexual comments. That's not a benign yo mumma joke anymore.

Besides that, the video does briefly suggest that according to some people, this is the latest in a line of sketchy behaviour.

It would have been so easy for him to apologise. Once he realised his behaviour was upsetting people, it really doesn't matter what else there is going on around it. The appropriate thing to do would be to apologise and reflect. And if he'd done that, this whole thing would probably not have gone any further. It would all have blown over in a week. His decision not to apologise is reminiscent of some centrist comedians who, when challenged about some problematic content of their work, decide to double down by swinging hard to the right. I don't know enough about the situation or the people involved outside of what's shown in this video to be able to say that that is what's happened, but at least on the surface, it kinda looks frighteningly similar.