The most basic and common remarks during a match are perfect grounds for escalation and insults. If you dare respond to this needless escalation, you get gaslit by the rest for typing. Gaslit even more afterward if you spend 15 seconds extra in spawn to report the offenders.
People make an emotional investment out of hearing a human voice in a social, competitive game. It’s absolutely infuriating. Half of the people pretending to care aren’t even in voice chat during a COMPETITIVE MATCH, yet somehow care enough about the match outcome to start drama. The same ones that have all combo/target requests over voice chat muted.
This has been going on for too long, it’s making me despise my generation and beyond quite unconditionally. More excited to escalate and gaslight than to figure out a solution… We deserve our demographic collapse.