After a female Twitch streamer posted a clip where she encountered rude ‘Halo’ players telling her to quit the game, Xbox co-creator Jonathan Blackley has called for more regulation to combat toxicity in online games.
On December 19 Twitch affiliate Grenade Girl was streaming her gameplay in the first-person shooter ‘Halo Infinite.’ In one of the matches, in which she was apparently underperforming, a couple of players in the voice chat made their frustration known and told her to “Just f*****g leave” and “Go play Fortnite or whatever the f***, show your tits on f*****g Twitch, whatever.” Ending with “You notice how Master Chief was never a woman?”
Grenade Girl later clipped the exchange and posted it on Twitter, commenting that “no woman should have to deal with this.”
No woman should have to deal with this if they’re having 1 rough game against decent people.. this was only part of it (sound on) pic.twitter.com/A56x1Vs5eS
— Grenade Queen (@GrenadeQueen1) December 19, 2021
While many users responded to the tweet by saying the streamer should grow thicker skin if she wanted to survive in the anonymous world of online games, others suggested she should simply learn how to mute the voice chat, which is a feature present in almost all online games.
Grenade Girl made a follow-up post saying she wasn’t ‘butt hurt,’ but that she was frustrated that she was targeted because of her gender.
Let’s get one thing straight here about my post. I’m not butt hurt, I’m not crying or anything. It’s more the fact I had ONE bad game and I got roasted for it because of my gender. It’s almost 2022. Shit’s changed.