GamePro011 removed from SGDQ

ElvisChrist6 · 8日前

Is that panic attack tweet a joke? I bet it's someone just trying to exacerbate the whole thing.

Wormsiie · 7日前

I didn't watch it. What exactly was it that he said?

planetarial · 8日前

They also didn't upload either of his runs to the official GDQ Youtube page.

h8mx · 8日前

my friends and I experienced panic attacks during that run

oh fuck off.

Silverhand7 · 8日前

People are taking this way too far. Don't get me wrong, I didn't like the guy from what I saw of him, he was pretty obnoxious. But at most I think they just shouldn't accept his runs for the event in the future. Removing him from the event so he can't even enjoy it as a spectator, mass reporting/banning his twitch channel, and that moron in the twitter post linked saying he should be "banned from speedrunning" are all taking it way too far. This is unnecessary punishment, all he did was make some untasteful jokes. Just don't accept his runs, problem solved, GDQ is making a bigger deal out of it than it should be.

skwaag5233 · 7日前

Dissappointed in the staff. I'm not sure what removing him is supposed to accomplish except instill a sense of justice in internet bullies. He was clearly ashamed of the run at the end and probably wouldn't have wanted to come on camera again.

TheOnin · 7日前

Did he actually get removed from the venue? And banned from future events?

I'm totally for removing his runs from the schedule after that disaster. But awkward humour and questionable statements isn't even close to the level of Controllerhead's actions at previous GDQs. No one has ever gotten banned for something they said on stream. If Gamepro is the first this year, that's some straight bullshit.

toxictaru · 8日前

Eh, the whole run was cringy. I didn't turn it off, but I turned it down, and was glad it was over. The staff didn't need to remove him entirely, just tell him to tone it down and keep him off camera, problem solved.

unsaintlyx · 7日前

Wait what? Yeah his commentary was a little overzealous and inappropriate but removing him from the whole EVENT? Talk about an overreaction. Poor guy.

mceppy · 7日前

We have taken care of it and removed the runner from the event.

Like everyone else, I don't have the full story. But GamePro011 already finished his runs. They could easily put out this statement without actually taking any action because no one would know the difference.

crayolaclock · 8日前

Makes a few off-color jokes

More like a constant stream of painfully awkward commentary with the same three off-color jokes that no one laughed at the first time.

I feel bad for him too honestly, but when you're doing a run for a gdq nowadays, you can't be too afraid of the audience. Or least not make it show so much. The dude was clearly very nervous, but if that's how you handle it, you shouldn't have been chosen in the first place to do a run.

OccupiedMind · 7日前

The entire run, I felt he was trying to get noticed as a voice actor, with the weird voice changes and all. I just checked the FAQ page on his channel and sure enough, he wants to be a voice actor.

EmperorNer0 · 8日前

Remove him from SGDQ? That is completely ridiculous. Removing him from the entire event is like amputating a leg when you only need a couple of stitches. Not let him run in the event, sure if you're going to try and white wash everything and cave to the pressure - but remove him from the event?

When you add large amounts of money in to anything those things start to get weird.

speedrunta · 7日前

Shoutouts to Chibi for making this be about him.

mintzone · 7日前

What the hell is this? Am I the only one that sees the irony in emotionally hurting someone who unintentionally MAY have offended someone? Shame on anyone who approves of banning him.

SF218 · 8日前

Eh, regardless of how I feel, you can't get in front of 100,000+ viewers representing a huge charity event and make comments like that. It was an uncomfortable experience for everyone involved, and a bad look overall. I dunno what's going on with his Twitch channel, but it was the right decision to remove him from SGDQ.

Altarior · 3日前

The bar for what it takes for someone to get their panties caught in a lawn mover gets ever lower. I'm not exactly a long-time follower of GPro on Twitch, but I have been in quite a few of his streams and I think he's a really cool and funny guy. Like people at the event said, normally he's much more laid back. I think his Crash 2 run at SGDQ was hilarious, I enjoyed every moment of it. Some people might say that I'm cutting him too much slack (likely because my sense of humour is pretty dark and twisted as well), but coooome oooooon, man... Swinging the ban-hammer immediately because of a few off-colored jokes and a trollish comment!?

Bolshok · 7日前

I'm sorry, I just want to sit down and ask really quick.

You're running an event with hundreds of people, a guy just stated he was going to kill everyone not once but TWICE. A mass shooting just happened a few days prior. You people getting mad he was removed would REALLY be just fine with it?

Seriously instead of putting yourself in HIS shoes put yourself in the GDQ staffs shoes! We don't know exactly how talking to him about it went and they may have had no choice. Is he a gurantee'd risk absolutely not, but removing him was the only logical course of action.

Shitty jokes are one thing, those 2 statements just, no.

His twitch should not have been banned though, I'd blame that on hive mind.

Crystalis531 · 7日前

They honestly should have muted his mic once it got bad :/

th3schwartz · 7日前

I have an opinion about this topic.

Jon_targaryen1 · 7日前

Ah the good ol fashioned gdq drama is back.

grapechicken · 7日前

The donation reader keeps saying "kill the animals". He should be banned from the event. He's triggering my PTSD.

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Capitolism · 8日前

Also please tell me im not the only one who noticed the "when are you going to ban them from speedrunning?" second post there? That just there makes it seem a bit fishy whether this was real or not. I actually do agree with removing him from SGDQ, but I think everyone is making a bit too much of a deal about it.

Doesnt_Draw_Anything · 7日前

"Panic attacks"

Oh lawrd, what world they must live in when they get panic attacks from that.

dawrina · 7日前

I completely agree that his entire run was cringe-worthy and horrible. Even his Sonic run was full of stupid cringe jokes (seriously if he said swag one more time...)

That being said, it was unnecessary to ban his twitch channel and remove him from SGDQ. I mean... if I would have been that cringe worthy, I would have left out of embarrassment, but that's nether here nor there.

Maybe they banned his twitch channel only temporarily because they're concerned that he will use his channel to drum up hate or anger over the negative feedback? Or maybe they're worried that he'll use his channel in some other way that could potentially ruin/harm the event?

I'm really not sure how twitch works, so I don't know if you can suspend accounts for a set period of time.

To be honest, I feel like staff should have intervened sooner rather than later. Maybe they should have stopped his run altogether at the first mention of "distasteful jokes" or turned off his mic temporarily and had a staff member go over to the couch and ask him to tone it down.

I don't know what the rules are on staff members interrupting runs, but if it was bad enough that he had to be banned altogether, SGDQ staff could have intervened sooner to maybe prevent some of the other comments.

EnixXIII · 7日前

Shame, I don't think he should be removed from the event but just told about his behaviour and be made to make an apology to people during the Interview but from SGDQ's point of view I can understand from everything that's happening with mass killings and him saying he was going to Kill everyone they have to kind of take it seriously.

I did enjoy his Sonic Adventure run though which was pretty cool to watch.

Yukito_097 · 4日前

Am I LITERALLY the only person who found this run entertaining? The guy talked about technical aspects and speedrun mechanics whilst lacing it with jokes in-between instead of awkward silence. He actually seemed to be having fun rather than looking like he was fed up and just wanted to leave.

His jokes weren't the BEST, but they weren't the worst either and some were actually funny. And it doesn't take half a fuckin' brain to realise he wasn't announcing to the world he's gonna off himself/kill a bunch of people, but rather MAKING JOKES. Whether they were funny or not doesn't seem to be the issue here; people are treating him like he was waving a gun around and firing it at people.

And he didn't beat the final boss? Boohoo. I actually found it a lil' funny. I wasn't watching for a world record attempt, I was watching to be entertained, and I was.

Lemme put this way: I would sooner watch this guy's speedrun, than ANY 'professional' speedrun by a guy who looks like a fucking zombie or someone who refuses to speak throughout the entire run.

tempestdevil · 7日前

yeah, talking about suicide in a run where he suicides is totally off color continues announcing donations to kill animals

IvanovicsBum · 7日前

Jesus fuck will people just get over themselves.

I suggest they ban every single game where a character can die from now on, that would make a fantastic fucking marathon.

Edit: This is regarding people's (hopefully trolls) reactions to it. While I think that GDQ seem to have overreacted a bit, it's their event and they're free to do what they want in cases such as this.

le_Vaunty · 7日前

What did he say?

Tehmaxx · 5日前

Why hasn't AGDQ and SGDQ organizers realized they need to introduce a method to stem the tide of cringeworthy and possibly offensive moments?

A simple mute and a unheard warning to the runner/couch that what you're saying is very cringe inducing or is perceivably offensive would almost fully eliminate the vast majority of these moments happening.

That and Klaige responding and taking obvious trolls seriously should be a capital issue that needs to be resolved sooner rather than later.

Banning someone, removing them from an event or calling for his ability to make runs at future events are all very petty resolutions. People are all capable of forgiveness, nobody at the event even made an effort to say something about the jokes, if he is unable to read the room and the general reactions then someone needs to EXPLAIN it to him. GDQ allowed it to go on for the duration of the run and then retroactively punishes him? The fuck kind of system is that? Would you just let a computer syphon all your money out of your bank account and into someone else's or would you immediately make an effort to stop it?

KSIMuskratLuv · 8日前

I feel like these events have been mirrored in previous events

But no, I do think he kinda crossed the line and I know its a different situation. I just hope people let him live it down. Everybody makes mistakes and I hope people let him get past this.

warm_ham · 8日前

all-around brutal situation, but it's past time to move on with the rest of the week

archaeonaga · 7日前

I'm kind of puzzled as to why everybody seems so keen to put this into the whole "SJW" schema; we have absolutely no idea what happened following that run, no idea what the conversation was like between gpro and the event organizers, etc. And, however you want to slice it, making a joke about mass murdering people only a few days after a spree killing in a theatre is just not terribly appropriate.

Those who are sympathetic to gpro would be doing him the biggest favor by letting this whole episode go. Under that much pressure, with a rapidly declining run, I imagine most of us would crack up a bit too. The only reason this kind of mistake would end with him "ostracized from the community" is if we spend the whole week making it into a big political argument, drawing in the Internet culture warriors from KiA and Ghazi alike.

tl;dr: we don't know the whole story, but whatever you think happened, the nicest thing to do for gpro is to move on with the week and let him move on from what was probably just a nasty case of nerves.

blackwarlock · 7日前

I watched this video of him on youtube seems like he has his issues but just wants to have friends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cowjJSVY1l0 I think he should be helped and supported more than anything

lillesvin · 7日前

If people spent half the time grinding runs that they do being offended...

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rcvines · 7日前

ITT: People legitimately defending someone who threatened to "become a psychopath and kill you all" on a live broadcast to literally hundreds of thousands of people.

I said that shit when I was mad at someone in class in 4th grade and almost got sent to a fucking juvenile detention center. Getting banned from a GDQ isn't shit. People doing stuff to shame him personally is borderline too much IMO but there's not really a good defense to his actions.

GDQ staff made a good call in protecting their event, patrons and brand. Most people here would do the same if they ran an org that brought in millions of dollars in donations.

Cratus_Galileo · 7日前

I don't know about you guys, but if I was running a huge charity event and someone said "I swear I'm gonna go psychotic one day and murder everyone" I would also do something about it. His overall comments were cringy sure yet probably didn't warrant a ban... but this one? Definitely SOME action needed to be taken.

heinzcva · 7日前

My $0.02... the fact is that GDQ did not toss him out immediately after the run, or after his comments, or anything. They were forced to react by the massive overblown pitchfork-response from viewers. They had to succumb to the pressure of internet mob-mentality, which is honestly no surprise. I'm sure they would have done something on their own, but I doubt it would have been more than simply ignoring it, not inviting him again, and letting everyone forget about it. However, that isn't an option when the internet has already had such an intense response. The debacle wasn't going to disappear and they had to react. As much as I can empathize with the runner, and understand that it may not have been as bad as viewers act, there is still NOTHING WRONG with having standards for your own broadcasts and for people's behavior. There is no rule or law that they must accept everyone for who they are and view every poor-taste joke in an understanding and empathetic light.

Sometimes people screw up big time, even if they tried their best, and that's life. He has issues, came off really poorly in a pressure-situation, but those are excuses that shouldn't influence the consequences. You behave like he did, on a big broadcast, and you will be subject to backlash, it's just the way things are, you don't get free second- and third-chances just because you can give excuses for the behavior. I'm not saying anything he did or said was so horrible, but it was still bad enough that nobody should be surprised that there are consequences. Stick up for him if you want, but this was not the right setting for someone's worst-possible side to come on full display.

Catflap_Boi · 7日前

Watched the video on YouTube and he would be on a black list at any event I ran charitable or not. Threatening to kill people and saying its a joke isn't something any business would just let go. His whole humor is pretty fucked up for a charity stream, can't imagine what he's like when he doesn't have to behave himself. If you mention suicide or abuse at work you normally have the whole of human resources department talking to you about how they can help, counseling and seeing a Dr and getting time off work to reflect and destress. Saying something as simple as I want to die will get a lot of people involved and cost a lot of time and money when dealing with you, if you're found out to be joking around you would be flat out laid off from the company, and you wouldn't get a very good reference either.

GDQ made the right choice in removing him from the events before anything else happened, they really don't want to be held responsible for his actions after saying he wants to murder people in front of an audience just a few days after multiple shootings in America. They would want him as far away from that building as possible for the safety of everybody.

His actions would cost him his job whatever company he worked for. Every company must follow the same rules and regulations. They all have a duty of care to look after their employees, volunteers and customers (which includes online viewers) as a charity event they do not want people to misrepresent their business, they do not want their sponsers represented by somebody who wants to go on a killing spree, they do not want their staff and volunteers at the event to be scared or feel threatened, and they don't want their customers (DWB) to feel insulted or to not want to work for them. GDQ also don't want to be misrepresented by some idiot making threats and making people feel uneasy. They are hosting an event for hundreds of thousands of people, those people can complain about the stream, twitch does have laws to follow itself and would have to take action as it sees fit. If they break stream contracts with twitch they would ban GDQ from hosting events on its site, that's how laws are, every company has to follow them or face legal action taken towards them.

GDQ did the right thing by removing him from the event and banning him from returning, if his twitch account was banned too then that's because he broke Twitchs terms of service and twitch have to follow the rules to stay in business.

IstheLieReallyaCake · 7日前

Not funny, and his Crash run was terrible. The suicide jokes were relevant, but domestic abuse jokes and jokes about mass killings were a bit off-kilter.

zenmetsu_ · 7日前

I don't disagree with kicking him out, if it's true, because he probably made everyone attending uncomfortable. Plus GDQ's are a family environment, so no one wants someone who claims they're going to by a psychopath who's going to kill everyone. But knowing Gpro, he didn't mean what he said, he wasn't thinking before he spoke unfortunately.

Tashiroworld · 7日前

I remember in AGDQ13, Werster said (and stop reading if you think you could be offensed..) Werster said .. sorry.. Werster Yelled "Fuck this fucking game !" at the end of his pokemon gold run.. and.. everything was fine. People laughed and everybody had fun. Since AGDQ15 everybody got banned from almost no reason, people can't laugh, people can't have fun, can't do stupid thing in the background.. I don't know who is doing the rules in this event but this is annoying, this GDQ is going to be the most boring of all time because people are not alloweb to have fun.. this is ridiculous.. I understand they want to make the event more professionnal, more family friendly.. but come on.. you can't ban everybody because they want to have fun..

ok, Controllerhead was a big asshole from what I heard and gamepr011 was also a big moron psycho.. but.. anyway ! You know what I mean !

Seriously.. you can't disapprove what I just said..

Linseed_1 · 7日前

This is absurd. My opinion of the whole Games Done Quick organization has gone down after this. As if this guy was the first to make cringe-worthy jokes at a GDQ event.

LetsSpreadSomeLove · 7日前

Let's hope he doesn't get really pissed off now and ends up murdering everybody.

MemTheMiner · 7日前

The whole run was off color humor i didn't enjoy it.

MrDeeJayy · 7日前

When did the world get so wrapped up in cotton wool? Is it that hard to identify (and laugh at) a joke?

SupBits · 8日前

I don't even care about the "offensive" jokes, he was just so obnoxious and cringey that I had to turn the stream off.

BatmanBatman69 · 7日前

Remember when this event was fun? It's a shame what it has turned into. I'll never donate another cent to this, I'll place my money elsewhere.

ElOhTeeBee · 7日前

Making tasteless jokes is now a bannable offense.

I think I'm done watching GDQs. I can see good runs any time on youtube, the excitement and hype and crowd fun are slowly being stripped away to sterilize things to appease sponsors, and it's competing with TI5 group stages this year anyway.

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