Why i think toxic players really exist

The answer is simple: Other toxic players.

Before we start, this is not a plea to undo a punishment. I am not even under one right now.

When I started, I was chill. I would think, "ok, you died. It happens," whenever anyone screwed up. I would laugh when I died. I would not rub it in anyone's face when I killed them (unless it was obviously a joke), and so on.

Then I leveled up. And God help me, so did the amount of verbal abuse.

I didn't improve as fast as the other players did, so naturally, I was harassed, cussed out, reported (supposedly), and thrown under the bus so many times. I also didn't have an actual mouse (it was a laptop, so it made things difficult until I got a USB mouse), so things like kiting were difficult to do. Eventually, I snapped and was just as toxic to them.

I admit, I can be a toxic player. The truth, however, is that I didn't start out as toxic. The toxicity this community is infamous for is a living simulation of how a virus spreads. Truth is, if everyone were to take a chill pill, toxicity would drop dramatically.