League News: TFBlade wrongfully banned by Twitch

EkalbxBlake·4/25/2019, 2:59:59 AM·36 votes·14,870 views
r/leagueoflegends - **Update** TF Blade Twitch ban

Since this is not being talked about much on the boards, I would like to bring to light the situation here.

Essentially, TFBlade uses the word "idiots" and Twitch thinks that he said the N word. They claim that they are unable to hear the word "idiots" and instead of giving him a 30-day suspension, they're "graciously" giving him only a 7 day ban.

Honestly absurd on Twitch's half. Discuss.

124 Comments

Kalikain4/25/2019, 3:31:04 AM14 votes

https://youtu.be/-QfvLpWV0rE

Its literally clipped in the first 15 seconds of the video. Yall are really clicking a post made by people in favor for tfblade to be unbanned. The evidence is 100% recorded.

Kalikain4/25/2019, 3:07:00 AM12 votes

I saw the clip. He says the n word. Rightful ban, end of story. Just because youre top 10 challenger every year, it doesnt give him a free pass. P.s., twitch bans must go through a board of people who all without a doubt hear the n word. I heard more than 100 twitch employees agreed he said it.

Jamaree4/25/2019, 4:24:08 AM6 votes

I heard idiots personally.

Ðroxx4/25/2019, 4:25:06 AM5 votes

I don't even watch this guy but after seeing the clip he said "holy s**t kill these idiots"...... but hear what you want to hear i guess?

iamthegoatofwar4/25/2019, 12:08:18 PM4 votes

FACT: It sounds like he says idiots.

FACT: Even youtube's shitty bot confirms he said idiots.

Any thing that tries to argue with these facts is entirely wrong.

ÈvilMorty4/25/2019, 3:56:53 PM4 votes

I personally dont like him since he calls every champion broken while playing irrelia, akali and is a pretty poor whiny sport but he was wrongfully banned.

GrãñðmãstêrShãçø4/25/2019, 4:05:43 PM4 votes

Honestly who gives a flying f*** if he said the n word lol

Salron4/25/2019, 5:12:50 AM3 votes

tfblade speaks with a very specific accent, I forgot where hes from but if you listen to him speak for more than 10 minutes it's very apparent

In the clip he slurs his speech and very clearly says "kill them, you n-idiots" He inserts the sound of an 'N' at the start of idiots but it's obviously not the N word because there is no hard 'G' or 'R' sound present, and you need your ears checked if you think you heard either one of those

He's literally being punished for having an accent

Edit: found a post explaining it better https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/bgsvlo/update_tf_blade_twitch_ban/elntiln/

I spent too much time with this responding to someone else who is adamantly defending that Blade swore.

Here's a logical explanation of what happened:

Persian is the dominant language of Iran, his home country. In modern Persian, there is no phoneme ɪ, a near-close front unrounded vowel, the vowel that begins the English word "idiot". The closest vowel phonemes to ɪ in Persian are e̞, a mid front unrounded vowel, and, much more loosely, æ, a near-open front unrounded vowel. These vowel sounds commonly follow consonant sounds and don't begin words like they commonly can in English. The English word "these" ends in the phoneme z, a voiced alveolar sibilant, but he pronounces it only partially-voiced, making it sound more like s, the voiceless alveolar sibilant. If you look at this chart you can clearly see that the phonemes s, z, and n are all alveolar. Knowing that, and knowing the previous word, "these", ends in either s or z, it's easier for a non-native speaker who is quickly speaking to blend the end phoneme of one with with the beginning phoneme of the next. Since there is no ɪ in Persian, it's easier for him to use e̞, a vowel phoneme that doesn't begin words in Persian. What does he naturally do? Merge the s/z with an n phoneme to assist his pronunciation of the foreign vowel phoneme ɪ in "idiot". His accent not only excuses the sound you heard, but phonetics explain it pretty clearly.

KirbyCake4/25/2019, 7:31:28 PM3 votes

I love how leftists have controlled our actions to the point where if 1 person out of 100 million people think somebody said %%%%%% and everybody thinks they heard something else, that person is automatically racist. All it takes is offending 1 person even though 99.9% of other people think it's ok and you're a bigoted white supremacist oppressing all the blacks.

If it is unclear what he said, then he must have said %%%%%% because he is a male and all non-gay non-black males are racist. Guilty until proven innocent and even when proven innocent you're still guilty.

Beerstein4/26/2019, 2:26:33 AM2 votes

I can sum this entire issue up in 4 words: The dress is blue.