Toxic or content creator? Where have the norms of behavior in the Valorant community gone?

Recently, Polish professional player Szymon "kenobi" Łabędzki, on his Twitter account, posted a snippet from the stream of professional analyst and streamer "vladk0r", better known as Vladimir Kornev. In the video, the latter, after losing a match, expresses a negative opinion about kenobi, adding obscene language to it.

The events in the video occur after a lost match with a score of 13-11, the Russian content creator accuses kenobi of the loss, using coarse obscene language. We will not quote his words, only noting that the streamer also mentioned kenobi's parents.

The Polish player reacted to the insults in his Twitter post, replying that he did nothing wrong to vladk0r, and asked him to stay calm and control himself.

Relax bro i did nothing to you, no need to call me names

Later, vladk0r himself apologized to the Polish player, although he started to make excuses. He justified his words by saying that such content is liked by viewers, and also noted that there are many other streamers who say much worse things.

This has been just "agro" acting on stream like always, a lot of people like on stream this. If you came to stream to watch it and it affected on your day in bad way, im so sorry and i apologize. You can come to some em1lshein stream or some other guy like that, people saying shit much worse, and nobody gets offended because eveyrone knows it just a content.

Toxicity in Valorant

The above example is not unique; there is a known story about the streamer IShowSpeed with a massive audience that counted almost 7 million subscribers. In mid-2022, a video surfaced on the internet where he very emotionally reacts to events in Valorant, using foul language. The video reached the management of Riot Games, and the project producer Sara Dadafshar reacted to it, stating that the streamer would be banned in all games by Riot Games.

Note that in 2022, The Anti-Defamation League conducted a survey, after which it became known that Valorant is the most toxic online game. Even surpassing Dota 2 and CS:GO in the rankings. After this, Riot Games began actively fighting toxic players. The Valorant system records and listens to all conversations in voice chat, after which toxic players receive chat blocking and the ability to search for ranked matches.

At the end of 2022, Riot Games published statistics on their fight against toxic players on their official website. According to their data, in just one month, 41,000 players were banned, and more than 400,000 received chat blocking.