Hideri of Blend-S is more accurately a Troll Hunter.Tatsuki Arisawa, who became Orihime's best friend after protecting her from the bullies who cut her hair forcibly.Ichigo continues doing this after he is depowered at the end of the Hueco Mundo arc, this time with the help of not-friend Uryuu Ishida who has taken up his duty to defend Karakura of supernatural threats.He takes down three bullies with extreme prejudice to defend a ghost, of all things, and it's later shown in a flashback that he defended Sado from an attack by groups of thugs, who was more than capable of defending himself but didn't due to his Actual Pacifist nature. Ichigo Kurosaki takes a dim view of bullies and has an outstanding ability to fight them even before his transformation into a Shinigami.Even now, Karma's favorite pastime is to seek out and make the lives of people who pick on others miserable. The Chairman at their school has some out-of-order priorities. Karma of Assassination Classroom was placed in Class E for bully-hunting the wrong bully - a top honor student who was beating up a student with poorer grades.Here is the source of Steelseries pulling support from their Twitter/Facebook: We apologize to those who support our brand and expect more due diligence in vetting out campaigns and partnerships we associate ourselves with. On Friday, we ended our support and partnership with the organization. They asked us to supply some headsets, support the call for positive change, and we did.Īlthough we still believe in a world where harassment isn’t tolerated, it’s clear to us that BullyHunters is hurting, not helping, that cause. And more importantly, we would never take advantage of an issue like bullying to sell hardware. We didn’t have anything to do with its execution, content or messaging. We did not hire a marketing agency to create it. To clear a few things up: BullyHunters was not a viral campaign stage-managed by us. We’re well aware of the many faults with BullyHunters. Most gamers don’t experience harassment, and more importantly, 99%+ of gamers don’t do the harassing. The way BullyHunters represented the gaming community was wrong and disingenuous. It’s now clear that we didn’t do a good job in understanding exactly what we were supporting. And because we believe that’s a noble cause, we supported it. Here is the source of Steelseries pulling support from their Twitter/Facebook: (Can't directly link)īullyHunters pitched us with a simple idea - let’s work together to fight online harassment. I have to walk this back haven't been able to find a reliable source for this information. Steel Series received such a backlash that they pulled their support for the organization. Things got so bad that the main Bully Hunters group distanced themselves from the spokesperson. The same spokesperson was found to have had a fairly extensive past history of bullying other women online, at which point the spokesperson went into full-on meltdown and began threatening DMCA abuse. A study was brought forward, but it was only found to have had a sample size of 89, which makes the three million claim a major statistical no-no. A spokesperson for the group couldn't supply the data and when the researcher called into question the initial claim the spokesperson began degrading and insulting her. A mental health researcher called into question the specifics of the data used to formulate the driving argument (specifically that "three million women where driven out of gaming"). The initial live steam was a disaster - it consisted of a few minutes of pre-recorded footage (unacknowledged, which is against the twitch TOS) that was later found to have been staged, despite being presented as authentic. Then there's the questions of "is this just trying to fight fire with fire" and "could it make things worse for the person who called it in". The concept behind the group has been called into question - the idea of deliberately targeting someone to ruin their gaming experience is a fairly clear-cut case of greifing in of itself - but the apparent lack of any checks on misuse, such as verification that the person was actually bullying, was also highlighted as a concern. The original promo video for this group had a very "we are Anonymous and we are coming for you" which might have been intimidating a decade ago but nowadays just looks dated. They where also sponsored by the Steel Series headphone manufacturing company - though, by now SS has pulled their sponsorship. Bully Hunters is/was (it's sort-of self-destructing) a small group of Twich streamers and personalities and a few other people who ostensibly made an attempt to combat the harassment of female gamers online (specifically within Counter-Strike) by creating a group of "Elite Female Gamers" who could be summoned into a game to target and humiliate people accused of bullying.
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