If you write “X diff” without doing anything to support/enable the person you are trashing, you are more to blame than them.
Ofcourse there will be a “Doom diff” if their doom gets bubbles, pocket and teamplay while our doom gets nothing
Ofcourse there will be a “Tank diff” if their tanks get proper healing, follow up and teamplay.
Ofcourse there will be a “Ana diff” if their ana gets peels, worhty nanos and teamplay.
Sometimes it feels like the people who say “X diff” soft-throws on purpose just to avoid being seen as the weak link in the chain that is the team. Honestly, watch the replay and look how the player who said “X diff” played and you will mostly find that they played awful.
Tl;dr if you write “X diff” i will assume you are to blame for the loss.
Breed unneeded toxicity?
I know when I play a better mirror to the enemy, most likely the enemy knows it too, no need to hold up a sign (and vis versa obviously)
I am glad I have never seen that used, sounds pretty toxic to me. Why bother flaming people, just say gg at the end, then move on to the next game. I doubt most players can even find all the correct problems with their team
As with most things, I am sure it depends on intent/tone. If you are joking about it with friends or using it in reference to yourself I can see how it is fine. Using it on people you don’t know though, seems like a bad idea
the mirrors know who was better/who was more enabled. Nothing but unecessary comments really.
As always, sometimes people scream it very angrily sometimes as a joke. On voice you can mostly tell if its a meme or not, but in chatt you never know. Why risk making someone feel bad? If you do it in voice in a jokingly manner followed by assurance i could somewhat understand it. But in chat? no way, to easy to take it as meanspirited.
As i said above, banter is when you know its a joke. Writing it in chatt to strangers is hard to know if its a joke or if you are honestly calling another player awful.
I like to say “diff” when both teams don’t even have the same heroes. The enemy team could have a bapt and we don’t but it won’t stop me from saying “bapt diff”
Sadly if they have interpreted it as an insult, rather than a joke… That isn’t the responsibility of the typer. That is the responsibility of the person who decided to take it the wrong way to fit their narrative.
If you are more inclined to take it the wrong way… Just turn match chat off, then you dont have to worry about it.
(honestly though, match chat being removed would be a great benefit to the game. too many people just want to be offended by what people type - less upset people, less reports for them to deal with. it would be a win win.).
Anyhow, in my world a joke is something said to make everyone or most of the people around happy. But if the butt of the joke gets sad, no one finds it funny and most people report you for it, is it really a good joke worth repeating?
It is not. You can’t just say anything and disregard it as a joke. Either it works or it bombs, either it is deemed fun or offensive. If a joke is good or not is not up the the one who says the joke, it is up the the audience. And i think it’s fair to say that few people find “X diff” fun.