If you watch the exit interview a producer did with her after she voluntarially left the show (I think?), it's pretty clear that she was extremely uncomfortable by this bullshit. I imagine she thought it was safer for all involved to endure this and play along as best she could than create a confrontation.

I'd imagine that when you are on a reality show, not making a stink about things is the best revenge.

I don't mean to imply she acted incorrectly. Obviously, it was an awful situation. I was more trying to point to the pathetic nature of the harasser.

In a dark sort of way, it's kind of funny. Like he needs to do *more* to drive off women?

That said, I'd have paid money to see her turn on his insecurities, the ones that he salves by behaving this way.

I suspect part of it was knowing that the show wasn't going to do jack shit to take her side. They had seen it so far and hadn't done anything about it. My guess is the forfeit was basically a "fuck you" to the show, and knowing that it would garner enough negative publicity that maybe someone in charge would do something about it.

The beardo behind the camera zooms up on her chest and feet, calls her "insubordinate" when she refuses to stand up for him and tries to hide her feet. I only watched half the video, but it was more than enough.

It's basically a commentator with the mentality of someone from 4chan. He's misogynistic and disgusting while she tries to play it off as a joke, he even goes as far to suggest she smell the seat he was occupying and to mention her breast size to the chat watching the stream. It's very foul, and I pity this girl and everyone in the room.

I have an idea to get a gay man to do this to him. Neckbeards can't stand gay people.

The only part missing is that on one of the final days, she forfeited during the elimination match she was placed in. This led to alot of nerd anger because she apparently screwed over one of the other players for the 25k prize. A couple of more famous players (including the other girl on the show) posted on twitter to the effect of WELL SHE MIGHT HAVE FELT BAD BUT IF SHE HAD ASKED ARIS TO STOP HMMMM.

The playerbase (those that actually matter, not the endless online warrior garbagedome that is SRK) seem to be split between those disgusted with Aris, those recognizing something wrong but uncomfortable with calling out people so just making jokes, and people who seems genuinely convinced that sexual harassment makes the FGC better than esports.

Online warrior garbagedom? When did playing games online become more pathetic than sitting in a room full of people like this?

Wow.

You left out the best part;

“The sexual harassment is part of the culture. If you remove that from the fighting game community, it’s not the fighting game community… it doesn’t make sense to have that attitude. These things have been established for years,” Aris stated. He then noted that ... it’s unfair for anyone to tell fighting game fans they can’t viciously mock women.

“That’s what you’re trying to do to the fighting game community and it’s not right,” Aris continued. “It’s ethically wrong.”

This community means as much to me as a festering bowl of dog snot

They're just about all fucking assholes. That's why its awesome when you kick their asses in front of hundreds of people.

Most of the ones I know personally are pretty cool.

I was exaggerating of course. I dont think Daigo would act like this, for example.

Also from what I've seen of Street Fighter X Tekken, it's a fucking joke.

Agreed. For a community of people that claim to be rough badasses in contrast to those Starcraft wimps, they're remarkably thin-skinned when people call them out on shit like this.

There was a hilariously dumb editorial on SRK that basically came down to "stop talking about bad stuff, HYPE ALL THAT MATTERS," and spent more time talking about the fake Jago vs Mike Ross rivalry than the fact that a dude spent multiple days sexually harassing a woman live on stream. That is basically FGC in a nutshell right now.

Funny thing is how these guys pride themselves of being super smug and what not, but they go and buy the same game capcom keeps throwing at them for the past 4 years. I mean, this is basically Street Fighter IV with new skins, but don't even dare telling them cuz you will be blasted to the moon and back for being a "noob".

Do they think they're badasses because they're fake fighting?

I wanted to stay out of this, at POETV of all places:

1) This incident is embarrassing and destroys point 3 for 99% of the people outside the FGC watching it. I'm personally embarrassed by it. I know almost everyone involved and it's just a fucking mess. I feel horrible that this happened to her.

2) It's typically the other communities bah'ing over the FGC telling them to stfu, that the FGC isn't interested in your community and especially aren't into being leeched off of by these other entities which have attempted to con cash out of the FGC before.

3) The majority of the people that run events are college graduates with successful careers, good social lives and healthy families. We aren't high school drop outs and mouth breathing shit heads.

4) It's not the same game.

5) I've got POETV cat videos to watch.

Shouldn't you be closing threads on Shoryuken right now?

If any of you are in the FGC, at least the American one, do yourself a favor and leave. You'll never regret it. If you're an adult, you're past due.

It's always been shit and it probably always will be shit. I don't know exactly why it's always been so bad. The competitive aura particular to FGs, the imma-alpha-umad attitude, the general lack of education... not sure what the essential factors are, but it's depressing. The nice, the good, the smart, all leave.

Maybe it's improved some in the last decade, but from what little I follow it doesn't look like it. I was surprised to see Aris back in the limelight, but maybe I shouldn't be.

The kind who think that one's value as a human being is determined by their skill in playing video games.

To put a Lauren Faust spin on it: Fighting games are fun. If you can play the games with other grownups, they can be a lot of fun. If you play with jerks, it's not very fun at all.