The Twitch streamer Daniel “Jokerd” Gobey has become the villain of WoW Classic overnight. He took an item in a raid. The community on reddit made him feel their wrath. Following buckets of hate, there was extensive mockery after the streamer was kicked out of his guild.
This is what the player did: The player Jokerd took the item Staff of Dominance in the raid Molten Core. He “ninja’d” the item, as they say.
Ninja looting is not possible in modern WoW – but it is in the “old WoW Classic”. It regularly upsets people there.
Jokerd acted against the explicit agreement with the raid group and simply took an item that he was not entitled to. Another player should have received the item.
He did this with the clear comment: “What can happen to me? They think I care about my reputation on an American server.”
The attitude came across clearly as “You can’t do anything to me.” He even said, “he can do whatever he wants.” He would be the first to reach level 60 in WoW Classic, hundreds of thousands had watched him, he was not just some “random.”
WoW Celebrity in Focus
This is the problem: If it had been a normal player, people would have been annoyed. Maybe the player’s name would have circulated as “don’t raid with him”, but otherwise it would have more or less faded away.
However, Jokerd is a “WoW celebrity”:
- He is a Twitch streamer with 150,000 followers
- He was the first to reach level 60 in WoW Classic
- and belongs to the guild “Method”, one of the largest and most well-known guilds in WoW
Therefore, his actions had consequences.
Reddit Mutilates Player
Here’s how the community reacted: On reddit a post with over 15,000 upvotes emerged where the incident is discussed. The mood was heated:
- People are already angry at Twitch streamers who think they are better
- This arrogant behavior “You can’t do anything to me” made people even angrier
This was the hate: On reddit, hundreds of WoW players say what an asshole Jokerd is:
He is a “totally broken internet kid”, a “grown loser”, “a guy you want to punch in the face”, “a prick”, “cancer”, a “piece of shit”.
It goes on like this for pages.
One user calls on others to directly contact Method and tell them that Jokerd has broken the rules. Even better would be to contact their sponsors directly.
Mockery After the Kick
This was the mockery: With great satisfaction, the users on reddit noted that the guild Method had kicked the player out a few hours after the incident. Now the mockery followed:
- A reddit user said: “Imagine ruining your career for a few pixels.”
- A player created a post about the Staff of Dominance as the most expensive item in WoW because it cost the streamer so much.
“You can’t do anything to me” vs. “Internet”
This is what’s behind it: A lot of emotions come together here:
- There is a need for “self-purification” where the community wants to punish this ninja-looter by ostracizing a player.
- But there is also a lot of pent-up anger against such “people who think they are better”. And the joy of seeing someone “punished”.
A strange example of the community of an online game in full swing, standing against an individual. Although he really did everything to play the role of the super villain here.
It would have only been missing if he had strangled a kitten and canceled Christmas.
Many negative actions help a Twitch streamer. However, Jokerd has lost about 1000 followers on Twitch in the last 3 days (via socialblade) – he has become more prominent through the incident, but not in a good way.
