that’s the definition of schadenfreude, an emotion. we can control our emotions. sadism is a personality trait, and most of us are unable to modify our personality
Being toxic seems so out of place for the goofy cartoony art heheh. I don’t understand it. I would blame it on youth, but this is not how gaming communities were when I was younger. Everyone generally showed sportsmanship and said ‘gg’ at the end of whatever game your were playing. I just feel sorry for these people who are so toxic because they are missing out.
Genuinely surprised to hear that. Maybe I’m just a little naive. I rarely experienced anything like that back then. Maybe my experience was not typical.
If you think the wow emote is toxic you wouldn’t last 5 minutes playing HS when live chat was around.
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This is pure cringe, and it’s on many online games, and Dallua nailed it. It’s the cellphone, social media generations. Thanks to a lot of technology, people have lost any ability to be socially mature. When society no longer has to shake hands, meet eyes, and there’s that physical presence that would make them keep their mouths in check. Humans need physical interaction, in person; and once all of this mobile tech and “social” media stepped in, people got socially stupid.
Last game I just played, the rogue managed to win by have 3 different types of 1 cost cards. Dropped them down on the 5th turn, buffed them and overwhelmed me. It’s an old, worn out, skilless playstyle that’s still being done. Doesn’t mean you’re better at the game. So, I conceded and as I did, they did the “are your wits as sharp as your blades” emote and I’m thinking:
Imagine living a life so sad that winning a game of Hearthstone makes you feel superior.
I’m gen x and I remember that, in order for us to be rude to someone, it was done in person; we didn’t have ways of being rude via taps or swipes. So, these tap and swipe gens aren’t running the risk of being knocked out for being jerks.
This nails it. My thoughts exactly.
I really find it amusing, that you find it amusing about people getting triggered from premade emotes. Like why do you even care? You clearly have no problem with it, so let others be.
It’s not even about the emote, it’s the intent behind the emote. If you’re saying you’re immune to any sort of heckling or jeering, I’d say you’re lying.
Let me have a go. In fact, I’ll go as far to say THIS very post of mine will already be triggering on some level. I’ll be proven wrong when you don’t respond to this at all.
Triggered? More like amused that you responded to a comment I made from over a year ago 
Who’s the one that’s actually triggered? Lol
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Well, you responded so I wasn’t wrong lol. By the way, you’re guilty of responding to me from a comment you made a year ago. You’re obviously still current because you responded within the hour as well. Lastly, people are still BM’ing so it’s still a current issue.
Thanks for helping.
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To be fair here. The Hearthstone community, as every other PvP community, is, will be and was ever highly toxic.
The reason why we do not have an open chat in the game is the fact that Blizzard knew beforehand that players would just insult each other and that it would rain reports and Blizzard just didnt want to deal with that.
So we have emotes and i can assure you to 100% that most Emotes you see are meant negatively, like as an insult.
To be frank here again, even “Well Played” doesnt really work in this game. It has too many random effects and we all have won or lost only because a random effect several times. Thats not really “Well Played”, but more like “So Lucky”.
I agree. Way back when pc’s weren’t as common I recall young children and teenagers just raging at other people in the pc clubs. If there was a chat I imagine you’d often get insulted for no apparent reason. Sometimes even I get frustrated the my opponent gets 7 lucky outcomes on random effects in a row and manages to beat me xD.
Someone being too lucky can often generate aggressive thoughts fiercer than when just getting beaten down in a game of skill by a better player.
Alexa play Triggered by Jhené Aiko
y are people so toxic? dunno but ask mshadowsx rofl
No one ever told me that the straight and narrow path would have blinding rainbows.
One of my favorite songs is toxic by the princess of pop so 
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Hey UncleBronko here! And UncleBronko says dat… people in Hearthstone are often deeply wounded and for whatever reason, they are not yet able to take responsibility for their wounding, their feelings, their needs and their subsequent problems in life” . So it’s not that these people are inherently toxic (no-one is inherently bad unless they’re a diagnosed sociopath) – they’re wounded. But the way they unconsciously act out their wounds towards others can be labelled ‘toxic’ because this behaviour can be hurtful and damaging to others.
And lets be real here… all you see in dat Forum here… is… Nerf TICK… TACK is op…
omg delete TUck… Ö.ö
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People are overthinking this. Its just an age thing. Immaturity. And it has never changed. Toxic children thinking toxic behaviour is fun. Same children growing up, and thinking how immature such behaviour is. And the cycle never ends.
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Why are so many people toxic?
Because the game has THE worst RNG of the entire games i’ve ever played, and that thanks to how Blizzard, I mean Activision, has develop the game in the recent years.
Sure, it had it share of RNG before, but skill mattered a lot more than today.
Today is 95% RNG and …5% skill.
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I think the reason people are so salty is because random affects are just to common, people like to understand why they lose like a game of chess.
Play win/lose play it back and learn from it.
Yet in Hearthstone it tends to be RNG wins & because you won the last 3 matches, you must lose. The opponent gains a unbalanced card or Randomly generated card that’s perfect to change the match and throws any strategy or combo out the window. losing to Luck or a bad card makes people salty.
Blizzard also do not help the situation because they like to see things play out for longer than they should. causing people to rage quite or try another mode only to find they are also busted.
When people put time in to a game they want the company to be involved.
Yet Blizzard are like the Glazer family vs man united fans.
The only time the fans get a say is when they pay to go blizzcon.
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