Neutrondamage told Mic via Reddit private message that once the thread picked up steam, she started receiving messages on Blizzard online service "asking for blowjobs," and she received a flood of notifications in her Reddit inbox from other users calling her a whore and a slut and telling her to kill herself. Much of the conversation was surprisingly civil and empathetic, but it incited a lot of backlash, too. The thread accumulated over 2,800 comments, many featuring other players' accounts of similar harassment in the game. Comments like "Hey, why aren't you in the kitchen making me a sandwich?" and "You're a small-tittied bitch" were the norm, she said - and when she played with a male partner, she'd hear lines like "Can I get a turn at pounding that pussy, my man?" 20, redditor neutrondamage started a conversation on the forum /r/Overwatch about the unwelcome messages she'd received via voice chat in the game. For devoted players like her, the best option may be a network of private chat rooms that offer an escape from harassment altogether.
A viral Reddit thread is exposing Overwatch's nasty underbelly of toxic, sexist behavior, and the fandom is responding by making life hell for the woman who brought it to light.
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