A streamer accidentally makes exactly the right sound – and Blizzard takes the opportunity to poke fun at it.
Who is Voxy? Voxy is a Twitch streamer perhaps best known for her content around the Magic card game. Most of her streams end up on YouTube, but those videos have typically had rather modest view counts, mostly ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.
However, a few weeks ago, she collaborated with another streamer on Hearthstone. They created two videos that were well-received by both communities: It was about a Magic player evaluating various Hearthstone cards and creating an arena deck while the Hearthstone player did the same with her Magic deck.
For Voxy, this video was the breakthrough, as it had 139,000 views.
Watching and evaluating the cards – and presumably also the success – had Voxy “hooked,” so she wanted to check out Hearthstone. Together with her viewers, she primarily played the solo adventures, as there is no time limit, allowing her to look at, get to know, and plan the cards at her leisure.
What happened next? During the solo adventure “Dalaran Heist,” Voxy activated a Discover effect and was confronted with the “Weasel Tunneler.” The art of the card depicts a small, cheekily grinning weasel with a felt hat on its head and a cigar in its mouth. The sight amused Voxy so much that she first burst into laughter and could hardly control herself.
The community found it even more amusing because during her laugh, Voxy sounded almost exactly like the sound the Weasel Tunneler makes when played: a particularly throaty, raspy laugh.
When addressed about it, Voxy initially reacted indignantly and was sure that she did not sound that terrible – but only until she heard both sounds back-to-back:
This is how Blizzard reacted: At Blizzard, there was apparently someone who found Voxy’s videos just as amusing as the community did. Because just a few days after the incident, Voxy received two packages from Blizzard at her doorstep.
In the first package, just as Voxy expected, was a felt hat, so she could visually get a bit closer to the Weasel Tunneler. Even though Voxy playfully tumbles a bit in front of the camera, she and the community seem to be happy about the gift as she reads Blizzard’s message:
We really laughed loudly about your Weasel Tunneler saga, even if we didn’t sound as awful as you. Enjoy these little keepsakes of your true self, and we’ll see you in the Dalaran Heist.
When putting on the hat, she laughs so hard at her own appearance that she has to make the iconic sound of the Weasel Tunneler again.
The second gift is also well-received. It is a mug featuring the “Weasel Tunneler” design along with the phrase “Up to no good” – that was Voxy’s first assessment upon seeing this card.
Even if Blizzard receives a lot of criticism from the player base in the Hearthstone area – at least they made a streamer and her pretty positive community happy.
Significantly less positively, other streamers are faring: Shurjoka is in the crosshairs and has become a hate figure on the internet
