Here are a handful of reactions from the community that I picked out over about 5 pages of forum chatter:
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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=56#1103
Can't he get arrested for this shit? Americans can't make this kind of joke for sure. Let alone he is pretty serious there.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=50#990
Why Stephano is even on EG disgusts me.
He's made fun of the holocaust on twitter before, and now this? How much is too much? Do we want people like this representing esports at the forefront of our scene?
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=52#1021
You would rather watch Stephano today and have the scene die tomorrow?
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=52#1034
Anyone realize that the age of consent in Spain is 13? Stephano recently attended Dreamhack Valencia, in Spain. Maybe he boinked a young Spanish chick. Who knows man, them French are pretty liberal with the sex.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=54#1065
....am I missing something? How is that a joke? Ok Ok he WAS joking but....damn, that is so not funny. Maybe french humor is about pretending to commit crimes.....strange
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=54#1070
Dude that can totally get him in jail... being banned by EG is the last thing he needs to worry about right now.
Better hope no 14 years old comes forward because he already admitted it if someone accuses him...
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=55#1092
Wow so is he really a child predator or was he joking?
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=55#1089
who cares what the age consent in that location was it's wrong to bang a 14yr old, if i go to a lawless shit hole like sudan and fuck a 10yr old is it ok because they have no age of consent there, fuck no it isn't ok, this thread makes me sick and so does the EG team a one month suspension is nothing, never watching there streams again or buying a any products associated with them.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=50#995
I'm confused. Why exactly was it even a joke? It wasn't framed as a joke. There's no punch line or twist. And he immediately regretted expressing it. Unless my English comprehension is not sufficiently bad enough to understand why it's even a joke in the first place calling it a joke is just an excuse for a crude comment. The only reason people are saying it is a joke is because the person he was talking with didn't take it seriously either, but stephano evidently did while he expressed it.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=56#1101
Stephano said that as if it was true or it really happened... But then again, his English isn't his main language.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=56#1120
When I was 19, I fucked 14 year olds. The laws are bs. Such a small age difference and there are some slutty 14 year olds for sure. What a joke. All the people on their moral high horses.
Can't he get arrested for this shit? Americans can't make this kind of joke for sure. Let alone he is pretty serious there.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=50#990
Why Stephano is even on EG disgusts me.
He's made fun of the holocaust on twitter before, and now this? How much is too much? Do we want people like this representing esports at the forefront of our scene?
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=52#1021
You would rather watch Stephano today and have the scene die tomorrow?
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=52#1034
Anyone realize that the age of consent in Spain is 13? Stephano recently attended Dreamhack Valencia, in Spain. Maybe he boinked a young Spanish chick. Who knows man, them French are pretty liberal with the sex.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=54#1065
....am I missing something? How is that a joke? Ok Ok he WAS joking but....damn, that is so not funny. Maybe french humor is about pretending to commit crimes.....strange
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=54#1070
Dude that can totally get him in jail... being banned by EG is the last thing he needs to worry about right now.
Better hope no 14 years old comes forward because he already admitted it if someone accuses him...
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=55#1092
Wow so is he really a child predator or was he joking?
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=55#1089
who cares what the age consent in that location was it's wrong to bang a 14yr old, if i go to a lawless shit hole like sudan and fuck a 10yr old is it ok because they have no age of consent there, fuck no it isn't ok, this thread makes me sick and so does the EG team a one month suspension is nothing, never watching there streams again or buying a any products associated with them.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=50#995
I'm confused. Why exactly was it even a joke? It wasn't framed as a joke. There's no punch line or twist. And he immediately regretted expressing it. Unless my English comprehension is not sufficiently bad enough to understand why it's even a joke in the first place calling it a joke is just an excuse for a crude comment. The only reason people are saying it is a joke is because the person he was talking with didn't take it seriously either, but stephano evidently did while he expressed it.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=56#1101
Stephano said that as if it was true or it really happened... But then again, his English isn't his main language.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375035¤tpage=56#1120
When I was 19, I fucked 14 year olds. The laws are bs. Such a small age difference and there are some slutty 14 year olds for sure. What a joke. All the people on their moral high horses.
Here are some things I learned from this brief sampling, in no particular order:
-Competitive Starcraft would cease to exist if he were not punished,
-Stephano is going to jail since he lives in America,
-He doesn't understand what he was saying because he is French,
-If Laffy Taffy has taught us anything, it is that all jokes require punchlines or wordplay,
-Statutory rape isn't all bad,
-He didn't know Bling was streaming and hadn't considered the possibility when he chose to randomly message him something wildly offensive out of the blue,
-Stephano is a rapist.
This all reminds me of the time when he got in a huge fight with DeMuslim on stream. As you may well know, they are bitter enemies. See for yourself:
Or maybe, just maybe, Stephano KNEW people were watching Bling's stream. And he thought to himself "you know what would be funny? If I trolled this guy's stream and said something that would get a few really dumb people to get really butt-hurt, and then we will all laugh at them."
Stephano is guilty. He is guilty of believing that you are not a total dumbass.