Their job comes with the open criticism any Athlete and entertainer faces, I’ve seen so much trash talk go on but only in esports, riot games in particular, is it seen as deplorable shit. Trash talk and hate speech are two very different things, but apparently that revelation hasn’t clicked with this community for some reason? Like hating trans players and pocs is deplorable and should be stigmatized, but fucking trash talking players for playing like shit has existed since competition has, and if you let that shit get to ur head and affect ur performance, that’s on you. Plenty of people in all sorts of competitive fields have used trash talk to get further, and have even thanked the critics or haters, there is no excuse for it being treated like actual hate crimes like the shit that happens daily in game changers