Change the LUL emote to not be a transphobic, sexist gamer
The LUL emote is currently a picture of TotalBiscuit, who rose to fame as part of the harassment campaign against both cis and trans women known as GamerGate. TB has, among other things, told a trans woman to go die of cancer. While reality has a nice sense of irony and TB himself died of cancer back in 2018, his sexist legacy lives on in the form of Twitch putting him on the front page of the emotes list for everyone to see, including people like myself who have been on the receiving end of his cult following who literally worked with open Nazis and TERFs to harass me off various social media platforms.
There's no reason to subject trans people to such an iconic sexist transphobe on a regular basis. Twitch changed the pogchamp emoji after finding out the guy was a fascist, so why can't they do the same for LUL? Why do women across the platform have to put up with this?
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PaleSalad commented
This is defamation against someone that died of cancer. TB was not transphobic, he even went so far as to remove a transphobic person from a convention he was attending. In regards to gamer gate, he was very clear that he was only interested in criticising games journalists and their poor ethics.
In regard to his followers "working with Nazis", this seems completely unsupported but even if it's true, TB has been dead for a long time and even when he was alive he can't control what other people do or who they're friends with.
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AlfaTrion commented
OMG TWITCH
Get this emote outta here NOW! Why did PogChamp get replaced so quickly and not this?? -
ThaeInTwilight commented
I already have this emote blocked, I would love to see it gone permanently.
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lostlightdruid commented
I agree. Transphobes should not be glorified.
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KosmicValkyrie commented
Hard agree with this. TB should stop being elevated and celebrated when he was such a horrid person to marginalized individuals.
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Maverynthia commented
I have no idea why TotalBiscuit is allowed to exist when he's a known racist, yet only PogChamp was removed.