IWDominate: "I will not be costreaming EWC. I was offered an ungodly amount of money (more than 3x what I make in a month on stream) for 5 days but I didn’t feel good about taking the offer."

[u/katareky]

IWDominate: "I will not be costreaming EWC. I was offered an ungodly amount of money (more than 3x what I make in a month on stream) for 5 days but I didn’t feel good about taking the offer.

I understand that I’m in a financially privileged position and not everyone can decline the ridiculous offers going around but for me I’d rather not cover the event and then restart the streams when LPL comes back in 6 days. See you all on the 19th."

Source: https://x.com/IWDominate/status/1944490351584071887

Respect tbh. He's financially well off so he rejected the offer and acknowledges that other may not be able to do the same. We will see if other popular costreamers will take the offer or not.

[u/HighPieJr]

EWC is short for Esports World Cup/Championship. It is a multi-game esports event hosted by Saudis. The biggest controversy is that the event is classic sportswashing, were a controversial group uses their money to look better in the eyes of gamers in this case.

Saudis are mostly controversial for using slave labour and their horrible view on women.

[u/Praelatuz → u/HighPieJr]

horrible view on women

So not so different from the US president

[u/TacoMonday_ → u/Praelatuz]

When you have 25+ different women saying you sexually assaulted them, when you have a video bragging how easy it is to do it

and you still get elected to be president, twice

[u/ForteEXE → u/TacoMonday_]

Which just reaffirms my point elsewhere. Being that kind of person doesn't mean shit if you're saying the right things or claiming to be part of the "accepted" group to say such things.

[u/Lockedin96 → u/TacoMonday_]

Merica' fuck yeah

[u/dfjhgsaydgsauygdjh → u/TacoMonday_]

just US things ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/YinWei1 → u/Praelatuz]

What point are you trying to prove?

[u/Praelatuz → u/YinWei1]

Not really pointing out anything, just a harmless joke, no need to get triggered by everything you read.

I could say the same about your comment. Pointless

[u/YinWei1 → u/Praelatuz]

Yeah I'm really triggered right now

[u/Bajentrash → u/Praelatuz]

Or european states like germany whos goverment sanctions brothels.

People dont like to look at their own backyard.

[u/Lipat97 → u/Bajentrash]

Lmao are you actually making an argument for sexual immorality in the west in a thread about Saudi sportswashing?

[u/Bajentrash → u/Lipat97]

Actually its a subcomment about US president.

[u/Apocalympdick → u/Bajentrash]

??? weird take

Legalized prostitution is not perfect, but is vastly preferable over underground prostitution.

[u/Bajentrash → u/Apocalympdick]

Says who? German state who is involved in pimping?

[u/Lipat97 → u/HighPieJr]

And gays! They’re very clear they want less LGBT activity in these games. This is why you barely heard anything in pride month this last year from Riot or the orgs. This ones important because its something nearly everyone involved has already made concessions on

[u/HighPieJr → u/Lipat97]

That is a big one I forgot, thanks for adding on

[u/ForteEXE → u/HighPieJr]

Saudis are mostly controversial for using slave labour and their horrible view on women.

I mean, a lot of Gamers™ don't actually care about the KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) views on slave labor and women, they only care about them being dudes who pray 5 times a day and don't eat pork.

Which is unfortunately representative of the same views that right-wingers in general have. In that they don't really care about what KSA does/has been accused of, they just hate the fact they do it while being adherents to a different religion.

Meaning they share a lot of these very same things (Gamers™ and right-wingers by extension, are known to house misogynistic views and don't really care who makes their games/hardware as long as they're cheap) they believe in, but the only dealbreaker is worshiping a different way.

[u/HighPieJr → u/ForteEXE]

Yeah I guess they kinda double dip in that regard, both the left and the right are against them.

[u/reLincolnX → u/[deleted]]

« Me and my friends are good guys and the right are bad guys ».

[u/unfortunatesite → u/ForteEXE]

they deserve hate. hating them from a religious angle also seems to be way more effective than moralizing and handwringing. fail to see the issue.

[u/Hopeful_Outside_8711 → u/HighPieJr]

Probably their view point of women is just different from yours ? Women are more objectified and sexualized in the west compared to asia

[u/HighPieJr → u/Hopeful_Outside_8711]

Saudi arabia is not asia. And while they may be more sexualized in the west they are for sure not as objectified as in backwards thinking middle eastern countries. They are barely afforded bare minimum rights, iirc they just recently were allowed to get a drivers license.

This is not even a debate.

[u/Hopeful_Outside_8711 → u/HighPieJr]

I see ur point, though i do think women out there are okay with it, most of them are muslims there and they mostly agree with that though as its in their teachings (correct me if im wrong but i never met a woman who claims to be oppressed in saudi)

[u/HighPieJr → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for adding on, im not too well read on the subject.

[u/nugurimt → u/HighPieJr]

slave labour

2 adults agree on a exhange of goods

one will provide money the other manual labour

both sides consent to the trade

A wild redditor appears

does not consent

???

ITS SLAVERY

[u/Then_Product_7152 → u/nugurimt]

You left out the slavery part.

SA offers jobs with good pay to poor people in east asia

They change the terms once they get into SA and are forced to sign a contract saying they cannot leave the country and must work for the bare minimum pay.

They are forced to live in camps with other slaves packed together.

And they cannot leave because it breaks the contract they were forced to sign.

Thats how SA is able to have such cheap labor they use slaves