The Twitch streamer Joona became the target of mockery and aggression online due to a clip on Twitter: 19.1 million viewers saw how the player supposedly behaved impossibly in Valorant. But it was precisely Asmongold who saved her honor – or rather, one of his employees.
What kind of clip is this? The clip lasts 1 minute and 22 seconds:
- A player says in Valorant: “You can revive now.” Apparently, he meant LunarFox, a friend of the player, who was also in the match.
- A female player responds impassively: “She knows it.” She comes across as passive-aggressive.
- A discussion arises about why the player is reacting so angrily. There really is no reason for that. The discussion drags on and turns into an argument where everyone reacts annoyed. The player says that this is typical for playing as a woman.
The clip ends by showing that the player performed poorly, treated the streamer dismissively, and ultimately blocked him on Twitter.
The clip was then posted with the text: “My mistake, will never try to communicate in ranked again.”
“This shows what’s wrong with online gaming”
How was the clip initially perceived? The clip was discussed as if the player was unreasonably in a bad mood and arrogant. She ruins the game for everyone else with her bad mood.
However, that was a “factually correct instruction over the chat,” which also contains tactically valuable information: Now is a good time to revive.
The comments lean towards “This shows what’s wrong with the community” – or even worse. “This is why online games are so bad.”
“Extremely unbearable”
In the comments, it says:
- “How can she say ‘She knows it’ and have such a bad mood?”
- “Joona is probably the worst passive-aggressive person in Valorant ever.”
Asmongold joined in on this criticism. From his perspective, these were players who were losing and therefore were going for each other’s throats. Asmongold emphasized that he never argues online. Because you can only lose there. From his point of view, the streamer is “extremely unbearable.”
This is the clip that 19.1 million Twitter users saw.
Streamer staged scene for more followers on Twitch
But what’s the catch? The player is Joona, a Twitch streamer who is in a relationship with a professional player.
The player who supposedly innocently tells her that she can revive is also a streamer. He is the one whose clip is going viral. He even linked his Twitch channel under the clip.
As Asmongold’s editor showed in a video, this was a planned action by the streamer to create a viral clip that would give him more reach.
There’s a backstory to the clip (via twitter.com). Here you see:
- The streamer recognizes Joona and acknowledges that she is a well-known person.
- He urged his chat to annoy her by spamming his name in her chat and writing things like “Lightedits is the best.”
- The streamer also states that he provoked her before the situation in the clip, saying “EGIRL EGIRL” and bringing her boyfriend into the game.
- After the clip went viral, the streamer deleted the video, apparently to cover his tracks, as Joona says.
Because of this backstory, Joona reacts irritably when precisely this streamer seems to “politely” point out an opportunity for revival in the game.
The bad mood did not come from her, but it was a trap that the streamer set for her to make her look bad. However, all of that is missing in the clip that then went viral.
The editor judges: Someone tried to become more famous through stream sniping.
What do other people from the match say? A friend of Joona was also in the match, the streamer LunaFox. The sentence “You can revive her now” was directed at her.
In a statement to Kotaku, she says Joona said “She knows it” to make clear that LunarFox knows she can activate her ultimate and revive. Joona said this because she knows LunarFox and knows that she doesn’t like to talk when things get heated in the game. Yet the men misunderstood this as aggression.
The boyfriend of the streamer, the Valorant pro ShahZam, says to the guy: You guys were weird the whole game. That’s just how she speaks, and people think she’s upset because she doesn’t use a soft “uwu” voice. I think it’s lame; your team wanted to provoke all game long.
While Asmongold is outraged immediately, his editor steps in and explains the situation and the background:
Streamer could face trouble for the action
Did it work? The streamer who posted the clip gained 663 followers, thereby increasing his reach on Twitch eightfold. It is debatable whether the followers will stay once they realize who exactly they are following.
The streamer is an E-sports student in Canada, and the university has been notified about his behavior, as Kotaku reports. Apparently, the university is not very pleased with their student’s behavior.
It is said that they learned about the situation and will proceed with internal regulations.
What does Joona say? She is disappointed that so many people she actually respects jumped on the hate bandwagon so quickly. There was little to no context, yet people judged her personality.
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