My Reaction to the Crusade Against "KYS"

SnakDatSmilesBak··7 votes·423 views

One time I was playing lol.

I was having a bad game. Then 10 minutes into the game I got a call from a nurse, "Are you ready for your surgery?" I had a big surgery coming up; the date and time of the surgery was moved forward without my knowledge. It was supposed to be tomorrow afternoon, but then it was that morning. I told my team there's an emergency and that I have to go. 4/5 teammates told me to kill myself.

I was nervous, stressed, and scared already. I didn't listen to my teammates but they made me mad. So mad I made a rant on boards that got taken down in about 2 minutes. I cussed them out; I told them to kill themselves.

All the things going through my head at that moment didn't compare to what goes through the mind of someone suicidal when they read "kys." They're stressed and scared, and they're not thinking straight. I was angry because of what had happened in my real life. Someone else may be even worse off, because of what happened in their life.

Hopefully this reaches people who say things like "kys," and forces them to consider this.

13 Comments

Hawckey3 votes

Can you please answer me this? What compels you to take what internet strangers say to you seriously? They don't even know you, why does it matter? Literally everything they say is out of frustration over a game if it's negative, not you personally (unless you're being an asshole on purpose, which shows your true character). Do you ever consider that? Or do you always take everything personally? If you have anxiety/ptsd problems why don't you just /mute all immediately? Sorry but expecting Riot to ban every form of toxicity before it happens is ridiculous, and it's just a statistical fact that you will be told to kill yourself on this game no matter what you do. They're gonna get banned pretty much instantly for telling someone to kill themselves, so there's really no problem with the IFS.

They're trying to solve behaviour with the new honour system that's coming out. But there's no guarantee that even with that, everyone will stay cool. It's also likely that the attempt fails after only a few weeks of being active like the last one did.

SnakDatSmilesBak1 votes

The point

Your head

Also it helps to read a post all the way through before you comment.

Xidphel1 votes

The point

Your head

Don't exaggerate. The point is much higher than that.

Hawckey1 votes

I'm addressing the people who get ptsd when told to kill themselves. I read a couple sentences and already knew this was a carbon copy post made every week or so.

SnakDatSmilesBak2 votes

You made a mistake. The things you talk about in your comment are either irrelevant or adressed in my post. So read.

La Belle Sauvage1 votes

That's​ just it, you don't know. If you were not ignorant of PTSD then you'd realize just uninformed you are.

By the way I am claiming you are ignorant of PTSD and I am not claiming you are completely ignorant. I'm sure you are plenty intelligent.

Hawckey1 votes

If you have ptsd over people insulting you then get the fuck off this game, period. Not saying it's okay to be toxic but it's an unavoidable fact of this game that someone will say shit like that. Also editing when I say you I don't mean specifically YOU but to anyone that reads it.

La Belle Sauvage2 votes

You don't understand PTSD. That's not how it works.

There is nothing wrong with trying to lessen the amount of toxcity in game. The first step is through discussion.

By your rationale​ we should no longer have laws and by extension law enforcement because people are going to break the law any way.

You casually throw the word PTSD around, perhaps you should visit a ward of people who have it or seek someone out who has it to gain understanding of it.

Hawckey1 votes

You pretend you know my mental state and that I don't understand what a mental illness can do. ptsd is among the illnesses that could cause a reaction to someone being toxic. and you didn't read my post. I said that it should be and is already bannable, but they can't prevent it from happening before it happens. So if someone legitimately has problems to the point they get a huge reaction from toxicity they should simply fuck off from league or the internet in general. Do you know who is being toxic? It's likely an edgy teenager. No amount of discussion will stop them until they simply grow up, it's a phase. Sure ban them when it happens, but they will make another account and do it again eventually.

I do not understand people who encourage league as a stress relieving game. Whether you like it or not it's a competitive environment for most people, league is not relaxing to them. I would instead encourage people with mental illness to stay away from this game.

SnakDatSmilesBak1 votes

While you encourage people with mental illnesses to stay away from LOL, I will continue to encourage people to be kind. Both of us are doing right in our own way. Except, I see no harm in my methods.

La Belle Sauvage2 votes

You completely miss the point. Word matter and none of us can account for the mental state of a person. Why risk it? What is wrong with being civil?

Why would you embrace negativity when you can be positive instead?

AeroWaffle1 votes

The people who tell others to kill themselves are unlikely to care about any request for them to not do so. They should already know that it's incredibly rude, but they are doing it anyway. Which is why it's one of the phrases that often nets a punishment escalation.

SnakDatSmilesBak1 votes

True, but it doesn't hurt to offer perspective.

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