Adding my 2 dents here.

After 7000+ FL matches in 4 datacenters, I can't say I see a trend to "normalize" harassment. That's a rather extreme view. There is toxicity for sure, but it's usually rather tame. Everyone and their dog have been "victims" of emotes. In RL professionally competitions people may not behave like this normally, but amongst friends, and over the internet, it's always been like this. More or less.
I Have shuffleboard matches with my friends often, and we taunt each other like crazy.

I can't know for sure ofc, but I highly suspect that for some, the heat of competition is too much. The word harassment gets thrown around A LOT these days.

Quote Originally Posted by Gallus View Post
If you lose you deserve to be insulted and shamed. Is that what I just read?
Sure, that's the correct way of interpreting that line... -____-