It is said that they want to “deeply apologize to everyone who felt attacked by the posting.” They know they fell short of the expectations of the fans and their own standards.
Atlanta FaZe is the result of an eSports investor in Atlanta with the eSports clan FaZe, the largest eSports clan in the world, which has grown tremendously on social media, especially through content creators on YouTube and Twitch.
FaZe has frequently been involved in controversies, most recently they tried to make an example:
It is said that they want to “deeply apologize to everyone who felt attacked by the posting.” They know they fell short of the expectations of the fans and their own standards.
Atlanta FaZe is the result of an eSports investor in Atlanta with the eSports clan FaZe, the largest eSports clan in the world, which has grown tremendously on social media, especially through content creators on YouTube and Twitch.
FaZe has frequently been involved in controversies, most recently they tried to make an example:
It is said that they want to “deeply apologize to everyone who felt attacked by the posting.” They know they fell short of the expectations of the fans and their own standards.
Atlanta FaZe is the result of an eSports investor in Atlanta with the eSports clan FaZe, the largest eSports clan in the world, which has grown tremendously on social media, especially through content creators on YouTube and Twitch.
FaZe has frequently been involved in controversies, most recently they tried to make an example:
The team “Atlanta FaZe” has some of the best American professional players in Esports from Call of Duty under contract. But a post went horribly wrong on social media: They published a picture on Twitter of 8 well-known male CoD professionals with a filter that portrays them as women. And asked: “How many drinks to take them home?” – That was a mistake for which they had to apologize.
Atlanta FaZe had to apologize for this post:
- Atlanta FaZe published a picture on Twitter on July 5 that showed 8 male “Call of Duty” professionals with a “This is what they would look like as women” filter. They tagged it with the hashtag “EZAF” – meaning “easy as fuck” – extremely easy or simply “FaZe” read backwards
- The accompanying text read: “How many drinks to take them home?”
- Using the “gender-swap filter,” players such as Seth “Scump” Abner or Chris “Simp” Lehr were featured.
Fucking do better. This never should have been written, let alone left drafts. pic.twitter.com/8teBOXyos6
— Evan Berman ✊🇺🇦 (@Scapes) July 8, 2022
“How many drinks to take them home?”
Why is the image so problematic? The image is mainly considered problematic because of the question “How many drinks to take them home”.
Because the question can be read in two ways:
- Either the man has to get drunk to engage with one of the women
- Or the men have to get the women drunk to hook up with them
In any case, alcohol consumption is closely linked to sexuality and somewhere women are to be evaluated based on their sexual attractiveness.
This is something many people have a problem with on Twitter. They make this clear in their comments:
- “Absolutely disgusting. Can’t say I’m surprised though. Just typical FaZe bro bullshit.”
- “What were they thinking when they posted this?”
- “For fuck’s sake, put in more effort. This should never have been written and certainly should not have left drafts.”
- “To clarify: The filters themselves were not problematic at all. Everyone can deal with that. But how do we talk about women here? About how ‘hottable’ they are?”
There are also some who defend FaZe:
- “I feel like this is a matter of perception. The meaning of the post is: “How many drinks do you need to take them home?” because someone sober would clearly see that these are men with filters – not real women.”
- “The fact that one must apologize for a filter is so dumb. This is just something on the internet that everyone knows with a pinch of humor.”
- “It’s absolutely insane that stuff like this upsets people nowadays. The world has become so soft, man. I’m totally for women’s rights and equal rights, but these were just a few professional players in a women filter. It looked funny and it was damn funny. My God.”
This is how the clan reacts: The team “Atlanta FaZe” apologized two days later, on July 7, for the “misguided” tweet, stating it wasn’t okay (via twitter):
“We understand that there is no room for misogyny or harassment and that women and the Call of Duty community deserve better.”
FaZe has frequently been involved in controversies, most recently they tried to make an example:
It is said that they want to “deeply apologize to everyone who felt attacked by the posting.” They know they fell short of the expectations of the fans and their own standards.
Atlanta FaZe is the result of an eSports investor in Atlanta with the eSports clan FaZe, the largest eSports clan in the world, which has grown tremendously on social media, especially through content creators on YouTube and Twitch.
FaZe has frequently been involved in controversies, most recently they tried to make an example:
It is said that they want to “deeply apologize to everyone who felt attacked by the posting.” They know they fell short of the expectations of the fans and their own standards.
Atlanta FaZe is the result of an eSports investor in Atlanta with the eSports clan FaZe, the largest eSports clan in the world, which has grown tremendously on social media, especially through content creators on YouTube and Twitch.
FaZe has frequently been involved in controversies, most recently they tried to make an example:
