2023-05-02 17:15:03
Game News The biggest Pokémon Go player victim of bullying
A few days ago, the Australian streamer FleeceKing announced that he would participate in the next edition of Pokémon Go Fest 2023. However very active and engaged within the game community, the content creator received messages for the less virulent and horrible from some players. The latter felt that sending money to Niantic was simply hypocritical on his part, and attacked him and his profession.
For some members of the community, nothing is going right in Pokémon Go anymore
Currently, on Pokémon Go, the climate is most hostile. We are far from the jovial atmosphere of the beginnings of the augmented reality application, in particular because the choices made by Niantic, the developer of the game, arouse more the indignation of the most invested players than excessive praise. Among the problems that ruffle the hair of the Pokémon Go community, even if it means making its members particularly virulent, we find the event related to the introduction of Pyronille, the functionality of postcards or in-game store price increase.
If, usually, it is the developers of Niantic who receive the invectives of the players of the community, the latter can sometimes be just as virulent towards those who continue to enjoy the game. It is true that some choices of Niantic are debated. In fact, streamer FleeceKing is one of the first to point them out, but the fact remains that the very first trainer to reach level 50 still enjoys playing it every day, chain captures and swallow up the kilometers on foot. Except that it earned him to be targeted! On social media, the Australian content creator recently shared a collage of the messages he may have received lately, and they are all more heinous than the other.
This big streamer decides to participate in Pokémon Go Fest… and is harassed
Again this year, in 2023, Niantic is hosting the Pokémon Go Fest. Behind this major event is a true celebration of augmented reality gaming, even taking place in physical locations throughout the month of August: from August 4 to 6 in London and Osaka, and from August 18 to 20 in New- York. It is therefore as an assiduous player to Pokémon Go that FleeceKing was happy to announce his participation in the event, he who had just bought a ticket. What he did not know, however, is that by sharing this news, a part of the community would fall on him and reproach him for not boycotting this kind of celebration.
This has gone way too far now and I’m very hurt. Encouraging me to suicide, saying I don’t have a real job, mocking my life & people who support me all because I bought a ticket to a in person Go Fest. These DMs and comments are extremely hurtful and I need a break. #PokemonGO pic.twitter.com/NV4CIzfW6k
— FleeceKing (@ItsFleeceKing) April 28, 2023
As seen in the tweet posted above, the Australian streamer received a large amount of hate messages when he posted his participation in Pokémon Go Fest 2023. In the lot, he is accused of being pathetic by claiming to support the community Pokémon Go while funding Niantic through this purchase, to be hypocritical and not to raise certain concerns faced by players and to pass its activity on Pokémon Go like a full-time job. Later, live, the content creator explained, while defending his participation, that this torrent of hate had affected him a lot and that he was going to have to take time for himself and his sanity in the days to come.
If you’re a reasonable person who really cares about the game and the community, the number of normal and Shiny Pokémon, the Pokémon Go festivals that are held don’t matter. (…) The reality is that if the game means enough to you, then you don’t forget the changes made for remote raids, you don’t forget the abominable decisions of Niantic. I think people forget that you can do both.
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