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The League Community's Reaction to Tyler 1's Ban Shows How Much it Needs to Grow.

SkiddilyDoo21·4/30/2016, 3:08:50 AM·314 votes·21,515 views

I usually don't comment much on these boards as I usually just come here to browse through in my leisure time, but seeing the Rioter's post on Tyler 1's ban and the reaction has me pretty concerned. The League of Legends board reaction to Tyler 1's ban has got to be one of the most depressing thing's I've seen coming from this community. Tyler1's account should have been permabanned after his first 3 accounts were banned. The fact that he was as popular as he was on Twitch actually took me by surprise. Yeah, he may have played an pretty good Draven, but that is it. Everybody flames and gets angry once in a while, but Tyler did it just about every game. Running down mid and flaming teammates constantly isn't entertaining; it's rude to his teammates and gives off a vibe to potentially new viewers who are interested in the game that it is okay to interact with other players that way. As league continues to become one of the biggest growing games among regular players and in competitive E-sports, people like Tyler 1 can't be around as a main attraction for people interested in League. He got what was eventually coming to him.

Edit: Guys, I get what you are saying about Tyler 1 maybe going down a bit in verbal abuse, but intentionally feeding is still a BAN WORTHY offense and he did it a lot; he even had a list he wrote down for people he would automatically troll if he saw them in his pre-game lobby.

254 Comments

AeroWaffle4/30/2016, 3:13:30 AM103 votes

Tyler1 got mega-perma banned. Which sent some fans to the forum and reddit to defend him, because that's what fans do.

Ty;er1 fans are more than likely to believe he didn't deserve the ban. I mean, they found his horrible attitude funny. It's not really surprising. The internet is a large place, and since League is a huge game, it's going to attract all varieties of moralities in large quantities.

ks9164/30/2016, 3:31:18 AM59 votes

The dude had like 20 perma banned accounts. It's not like he didn't have this coming to him. I don't get why people are defending him at all. Honestly I think riot took way too long to perma ban him and it should have been done sooner.

Big PeePee4/30/2016, 3:16:53 AM33 votes

People arent mad about the tyler1 ban their mad at the fact that riot showed specific special attention to tyler1 and not any of the other big streamers aka Nicktron/Kaceytron lol...

Leorite4/30/2016, 3:22:27 AM15 votes

Lol. The fact that people are making threads based off what other pro-streamers are saying is even worse (cough meteos fanboys).

Awkward Couch4/30/2016, 3:15:06 AM11 votes

I'm actually not too worried about it. Tyler was streaming when the announcement came in, and it's just all the fanboys bitching about how unfair the system is (though 19 permabanns is a lot). Let them get it out of their system and things will go back to normal, like they did with the Gross Gore situation.

ModCaptainMårvelous4/30/2016, 6:15:20 AM11 votes

This happens with literally every major decision that goes through league.

The content majority (Or, well, the larger portion of people) keep quiet and don't say anything because they're content. That or they start boasting and bragging to the other half.

The vocal minority fills the boards/reddits with posts about how Riot is in the wrong, how they're not right, etc. You can see it when Riot makes a change to the game too. 300 upvotes means nothing comparative to a 60+ million playerbase and a handful of people saying they dislike dynamic queue doesn't mean it's the entire community rallying against it.

Agree or disagree, it's always the most upset that are the most vocal.

Drehirth4/30/2016, 3:29:02 AM9 votes

He basically got banned for being popular, the timing was retarded.

Every other donation was pretty much " wow, people said you were toxic, but you actually aren't. Keep it up man"

Every. Single. Person. Strongly in favor of it will cite his past, and will have been ignorant to how he was actually playing now. Not only that, but they will bypass logic and flat out insult anybody defending him.

The timing of his ban is pretty much added to the scary big brother feeling that riot has been giving off because if he wasn't popular it wouldn't have been so severe ( just like with gross gore)

The sad part is that people can be toxic as fuck and start witch hunts for somebody, and get no disciplinary action against them because of who they are.

I've become pretty concerned too about the people on the internet, and am saddened how people will just give the same toxic reply to this and just call me a toxic fan boy.

What I'm upset about is the hypocrisy and ridiculous favoritism that is in play here

Malicious Fury4/30/2016, 6:52:14 AM8 votes

Actually Deep Terror Nami said it's his fans padding the votes. It's not the league community.

Rendarkan4/30/2016, 11:33:13 AM7 votes

-The people who support the ban- http://viciouscosplay.com/store/image/cache/catalog/Embroidery/demacia__render__by_darkstriiker-d64b5py-1000x800.png

-those against the ban- http://orig05.deviantart.net/88cc/f/2013/135/d/0/noxus_by_xkibax-d65e1bm.png

-Me- http://i.imgur.com/b2qtPpO.png "This getting good to read."(I'm actually eating pringles and all I could find were popcorn ones)

GaleWinUnleashed4/30/2016, 5:42:34 AM7 votes

That "reaction" you're seeing is nowhere close to representing the population of the Boards, let alone League as a whole. The vast majority of those downvotes and comments showed up AFTER Tyler1 viewed the post on-stream; it's mostly his fans blowing up that post.

drldrl4/30/2016, 5:29:47 AM6 votes

After checking him out, his fans are some of the most toxic children I've seen. I don't want the game to attract those people and neither does Riot, this was fully justified just based on that imo.

Thebbbrodka4/30/2016, 3:46:04 AM5 votes

All of you are babies. Should only get banned if you cheat or obstruct a game not for talking shit. Its a video game on the internet people are going to talk shit its part of the game. The only game where you get banned for what you say and not for what you do lmfao. Maybe riot should encourage people to use the mute button thats a part of the game or hell even bring back chat bans. No need for all the constant perma bans at all.

Puerto Rican4/30/2016, 4:35:38 AM3 votes

Ban Meteos. Ban Kaceytron. Ban Nicktron. Ban Sneaky. Ban all toxic streamers. If Riot/Ten, care so much about their product, than be balanced when it comes to "Justice." Banning Tyle1 and not banning the other streamers who are extremely toxic is very pathetic on Riot/Ten.Draven

TNHA Baritone4/30/2016, 3:38:39 AM2 votes

LOL

It is only because he is popular. MILLIONS of people display WORSE Behavior than his and do the same thing and Riot doesn't witch-hunt them. But I think it is dumb to openly be so toxic and not expect anything.

Saphixia4/30/2016, 4:15:54 AM1 votes

When Dunky got his ban i was a bit confused but just excepted it. But Tyler1 is really good at Draven yes but he,s toxic and deserves the ban