A new clip from streamer Grenade Queen is drawing harrassment attention, with Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley saying the importunity it depicts” wasn’t the future for (Xbox Live) we envisaged.”
The clip features Grenade Queen being harrassed as she’s playing Halo Infinite, on which she comments,”No woman should have to deal with this if they are having 1 rough game against decent people. this was only part of it.”
Her comment drew many replies from women who say they have suffered with such same actions, “My Xbox name is my irl name,”one user wrote she continues and says,”They see it and they directly attack me. Just bc I am a girl. I can noway enjoy pvp. Indeed bot matches. My team mates would kill me, run me over, punch me. Like what the hell??? It’s so bad that I’m willing to pay money to change my name on Xbox.”
Blackley was among the one to take notice, writing in response,”This was not the future for (Xbox Live) we envisaged. As a community and with the help of (Microsoft) this needs to be stressed and stopped. It’ll take cooperation between players, devs, and console manufacturers to change this and it’s time. It’s past time.”
Grenade Queen later shared a screenshot of apology from the player who harrassed her. But harrassment remains the major issue with hate raids getting more and more in the current year 2021. In September, many creators organized a bycott to draw the attention towards harrassment faced by the lower creators. In a separate interview with Axios, Blackley said”not enough attention was paid to the problem”of importunity while the platoon was working on Xbox Live.
Twitch has responded by cracking down on toxic streamers and introducing new guidelines, but there’s a little sign of harrassment abating as 2022 approaches.
The harassment of a Halo streamer on Twitch drew the attention of Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley, who said that this wasn't the future the team envisioned when developing Xbox Live. https://t.co/Mgl1N5OVns pic.twitter.com/cmjADtMDAv
— IGN (@IGN) December 22, 2021
