i agree completely, earlier today there was a meme thread in the TSM sub about Monte (who made a tweet about wheter it's even legal for DL to join to a team where his gf is the GM). Anyway this thread was filled to the brim with people straight up saying things like " Monte is a Fucking bitch, always hated tsm '' And direct hate towards monte. (who works for c9) Now normally you expect these things to be somewhere down the bottom of a thread hidden behind dislikes. Nope this was the top comment. about 100 people ended up upvoting that. I think it got taken down after i reported the thread and some of the comments in it. eighter way it disapeared from my feed.
It made me very upset to be honest, being fan of a team doesn't mean that you can shit on everyone with an opinion different from your own. It's honestly the worst form of fandom i've ever seen. I'm glad that people here seem to agree with me on some of these things. I felt like kobbe was wronged. Mentioning it on the TSM sub got me harassed. I became a tsm fan because of zven, i Stayed because of kobbe. But the moment zven joined C9, c9 became my number 1. With tsm as a close second. This move angered me. Open discussion over there is mostly met with harasment. (don't like it? get out!) I don't want to give more attention to tsm so i'll keep it at that. I'm ready to see c9 shit on that team really hard. Before zven joined i already really liked nisqy and blaber. But the org in general is just really wholesome.
C9 isn't perfect but i can feel good supporting this team. I always thought jack looked like a big teddy bear. And I do think reapered is insane. As a european i normally mostly support eu players but blaber is someone i've liked since the scouting grounds and vulcan is honestly growing on me. I never really understood the concept of supporting an org over the players that play in it, but i think i'll keep rooting for c9 even if some of the players i like leave.
I'll end this mini rant with a locodoco quote:
'TSM is your toxic ex GF, you keep giving her chances in the hopes of recapturing some of that former magic, but every time she ends up dissapointing you and the same problems come back
C9 is that nice friend, you really didn't consider before, but she's always there when you need her, while the toxic gf is appealing eventually you realize that she isn't the one for you.. C9 is.
I'm just really glad that i'm not the only one who thinks it's ridiculously shady how they're treating kobbe.