Where is the “lie” exactly? I stated that I remember seeing threads where people said that happened to them, which I did see, and then I SPECULATED that that MIGHT have been part of it. The rest of your post goes on to verify what I said was true while elaborating on part of it that I was not aware of (I don’t watch toxic streamers like Asmongold), so again where was I “making up lies”?
Because asmongold had his fans /spit harass store mount players. It became more then a one-time thing, people ended up doing it all the time as a on going meme and got out of hand.
That’s what people keep saying but I can’t find the actual quote and nobody is linking it. I watch Asmongold sometimes but if he endorsed that kind of behavior then I want to confirm it so I know to stop watching him for good reason.
I think you can still /spit you just can’t target a player.
I feel it should still be able to be used on NPCs.
Personally, I would use it on the ones that didn’t drop ‘the mount’ or X desired item. 
He started it and never denounced it after it became widespread, in a way saying “Im fine with it”. He let his feelings for store mounts get in the way and never thought about how those players actually felt being spit on non stop constantly.
I haven’t seen that particular quote, but I would certainly believe it. I’ve seen clips of him looking up Armory and Raiderio info about people who made negative forum posts about him so that he and his chat could ridicule them.
he for sure popularized it, i wouldnt say its his faults it was removed though lol, thats on blizzard and the people who suggested it should be.
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So everything else done to other players is fine but spitting is bad because spitting is bad in real life?
Okkkk
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Skip to around 58 minutes in.
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Just saw it : (
Why are people so fixated on the emote itself and not the intent behind it?
Forget about the emote entirely and focus on the fact that he encouraged his followers to harass players with store mounts.
He’s trying to move past it by pretending it didn’t happen or only vaguely referring to it as a war they lost but until he mans up and admits he was wrong for it, it will always stick with him.
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I was responding to the other poster’s point. I don’t give 2 farts about streamers, youtubers, or whoever else.
“Mommy, mommy! /spit hurts my feelings”
BlizzMom: “Ok, well remove it then”
notices this post is 14 days old after writing response…hits reply anyways
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Store mounts didn’t get /spit removed. Idiotic, infantile reactions to store mounts did.
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I’d argue it was the infantile reaction, to the infantile reactions to store mounts, that got it removed. I’ve been /spit on for over a decade and apparently that was fine until now. Maybe if I had made a bigger stink about poor me getting ganked and abused it would have been gone sooner, but then I didn’t give Blizzard extra money so probably not.
To be honest, a streamer can just use any other emote, like /laugh.
Again, it wasn’t so much the emote as it was a guy with a large following telling those followers to bother and harass a group of people he didn’t like. That emote was just the tool they decided to use to do that.
Why do you care? Honestly.
It was removed because there’s a decent chunk of players that would spam it at people as a form of harassment to try to make them feel bad for buying store mounts, or playing certain races.
Those same people would tell people to ‘get thicker skin’ but at the same time you will see them really upset at the removal of said emote, which tells you all you need to know about them. 
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