What does the Tyler1 ban say about the community?
This community is shit. It's incredibly toxic. And Tyler1 is proof of that. Play solo queue and count how many players in each game you have that break the summoner code. Probably 1 or 2 per game on average. But somehow these people are always around. So what does this Tyler1 situation say about the community and about riot?
First of all, the only reason this happened was because of his popularity on twitch, and the only thing this is changing is he can't stream and make money off his games. But he said himself he's still going to play league. Until riot makes more legitimately permanent means of banning toxic players, this community isn't getting any better. Banned players always come back.
Always.
So riot's decision to ban him isn't really going to make any impact on the community. No ban Riot issues is going to make an impact on the community, because toxic players always come back, and they always feel justified in staying. Like they are the exception to the rule. And this community is going to stay toxic. I've played this game on and off for 5 years now, and the community's always been toxic. I've been toxic. But I know how and when to be toxic so that I get away with it. I know for a fact that if I were a popular league streamer I'd be banned right now. But without that public scrutiny, the average solo queue player can slip by and be an asshole countless times before he has to create a new account. 5 years, and I've never been banned. Hard to think what I would have to do to get banned if I got away with it this long.
Tyler1 was a caricature of league solo queue. He embodied everything awful about the community. He deserved his ban, but he's here to stay anyways. It's all really a display of futility.