Can we kill this old meme already?

Modl Ryden l·11/28/2018, 1:18:18 AM·1 votes·1,530 views

Here's the post-match discussion I've had in my most recent game. I played Yasuo and to be frank it wasn't my best game. Still I enjoy playing Yasuo when I can. Now I normally play marksmen bot lane and don't really branch out of anything that isn't ranged in bot lane. But I've explored some areas and had far and few successes.

Now I always try my best to keep the game fun for all. Not just for me but the other players in the community. New players and veterans alike deserve to play League where all players display some standard of sportsmanship.

That's not to say I'm against witty trash talk. I love me some good bamboozlement! It's what's part of the fun! It can be healthy too.

HOWEVER. It wasn't until this match that I feel like this meme has ran it's course. You sit here and think, just like this fella I had in my post-game lobby, "But you're an M7 inting Yasuo Main! NANI!? You don't have feelings!? You're just a troll! Get out of my games and quit holding me hostage!"

You see, regardless of it being a meme, stuff like this is pretty toxic. For some players it's not funny. I don't find it funny and it's not because you think I'm thin skinned. I can be quite the savage if I have to be. But I seriously cannot tolerate how that 'anyone that plays Yasuo' is considered some kind of brain dead monkey. Or some kind of sub species human. Just anything subordinate and unacceptable. Because what? This player plays Yasuo?

Here's a more or less edited log of the chat and I just hate that this is how 'we have to treat Yasuo players' because it's a funny meme. Do it for the meme guys! Memes are funny! They don't hurt anyone! It's just a meme.

Well no. At this point it's become a stereotype.

>l Ryden l: gg Jinx .... left the lobby l Ryden l: you were pretty good .... was the most honorable player on their team l Ryden l: normally I'd ask what skin you want l Ryden l: but you already have SG Jinx so l Ryden l: gg wp .... left the lobby Summoner 1: excuse me .... left the lobby Summoner 1: u are a yasuo player Summoner 1: plz act like it >

5 Comments

Silly Neeko11/28/2018, 1:23:40 AM1 votes

People say the same about if you are playing teemo, yi, and pretty much any champion that is deemed to be "stupidly strong and just faceroll and you pentakill". Honestly its not so much a meme, it is how the players actually act nearly every time someone sees them that is commented on.

mack911211/28/2018, 1:45:17 AM1 votes

Im sorry you had that experience man.

We as a community need to be better but it will take every one of us !

... yes even you person reading this

d4rkshock11/28/2018, 2:40:05 AM1 votes

Tbh i see rhis more with Riven. Thats an even bigger meme. It so happens withVayne MasterYi

SonicAF11/28/2018, 5:26:54 AM1 votes

Yasuo is special because, unlike Riven, Yi and Vayne, he coinflips the entire game. He is very rarely being unimpactful. Either way.

Telephone Booth11/28/2018, 5:30:51 AM1 votes

So is meme just like another word for a joke? Honestly, im not even sure lol, i dont follow trendy internet shit. But it seems like you are a victim of stereotyping, not memes. Unless thats what memes are? Is it like a running joke? And in this case the joke is a stereotype?