‘Highly Toxic’ Streamer Opens In-Game Gift and Finds a Devastating Present

Anyone who has spent any time in the video game world will all tell you: Gamers, as a whole, kinda suck.

A gamer can certainly be thoughtful, fun, interesting, charismatic, and just an aggressive net positive for humanity (take this humble writer, for instance) — but as a collective? Not so much.

As a whole, gamers are largely toxic, immature trolls who literally still live in their parents’ basement and have zero social skills.

Seriously, spend 10 minutes in a Call of Duty lobby, and the amount of n-words, f-words and other despicable terms being hurled around by 13-year-olds will force you to lose a little faith in humanity.

Given that, it also makes sense that there are ample lucrative opportunities for video game streamers to cultivate communities of gamers largely revolving around toxicity.

And how best to do that? You be the biggest toxic troll possible.

That may sound counter-intuitive, but think of it as the biggest, most rotten slab of meat drawing the greatest number of flies.

This vicious cycle has, in turn, created a race to the bottom for video game content creators, which has made the space just an unpleasant one to occupy sometimes.

Video game developers are keenly aware of how unwelcoming this can be (which obviously affects their bottom line) and one titan of industry is fighting back in a particularly creative and festive way.