What is Toxicity?

I have been playing League of Legends for a few years now, and one thing I see more than a player getting angry is other players throwing the phrase "He's just toxic" at every opportunity presented. And so I would like to discuss why this is often times not the case.

Now then, when someone says "(Player) is toxic" most people think they are just people calling their teammates bad and generally getting upset and this shouldn't be the case. League of Legends is a competitive multiplayer online game. It can and will frustrate anyone and everyone at multiple points of their time playing. So those players aren't toxic, they are frustrated, there is a very large difference. Only in extreme cases of this such as telling other players they should "kys" should this kind of chat behavior be really put into view. But telling their teammates they aren't playing right, that they suck and etc. Maybe give them a chat restriction if they go too far more than a few times every 20 games or so, cause we as players are never gonna go a month of play without getting angry at least once, but we as a majority dont flame every single game.

The truly toxic players are the ones who use homophobic, racist, and violent comments in chat directed at anyone, as well as griefing, spamming players they dont like, and intentionally feeding. These are the true toxic players. These players are not as common as the frustrated players but are not too uncommon. These kinds of players deserve instant bans or other punishments to get them to reign in their behavior at least to the minute degree.

So, moral of the story, trash talking is commonplace in a video game and it should be, but verbal harassment and threats as well as griefing are what is truly toxic.