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This is literally a giant cartoon billboard with enormous arrows pointing down, with the words "We're doing shady shit" plastered on top in glowing neon lights being broadcasted over live air waves.
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After all the controversy with Blizzard the last few years, the Cosby Suite legit sounds like a sketch from South Park. You couldn't make up a sketch as messy as all the real life B.S. Blizzard has going on.
@@Realag666 Play ignorant if you want, but just because "the public" didn't know about it doesn't mean *the Blizzard staff in the picture* didn't. It was already an open secret within the industry since at least the mid 2000s, just like literally anything to do with sexual assault in Hollywood or related industries; Drawn Together put a Cosby joke in an episode from 2006, where he cried about being "just another unemployed sexual predator" without his pudding ads. His _continued_ "teflon image" despite the allegations and the settlements was what Hannibal Buress was joking about in his stand-up. The Cosby Suite was named after him, and all Afrasiabi and etc talked about in their publicly-posted chats as a massive flex was "bringing women up to the Cos" to fuck them. They weren't talking about pudding pops or ugly sweaters or anything else the public would know Cosby for. Any mention of his ugly sweater or the appearance of the suite is a post-hoc rationalization on their part, the same as trying to say "the women" they talked about was another guy's wife and his sister. After Afrasiabi joked about wanting to fuck/marry "all of them" because he's middle-eastern.
@@PeacefulJoint - the charges where not dropped! Cosby testified under bargain - the terms of the bargain made his testimony inadmissible in court and technically nullified his conviction because his own words from the testimony under bargain where the damning evidence. He is guilty and walks free due to a technicality.
Yong, please don't worry about feeling you're covering this too much. This needs to be covered and continuously presented to the short attention span of the internet. As Sterling said countless times, these shitty corps want people to get fed up with this news and to forget.
Yes. Keep shining light on it. I am a veteran of this industry who has spent a lot of time trying to fight against corruption in management, and usually all that happens is I get fired and make little change. The press helping us clean this industry is GREATLY appreciated. It's hard for us low level devs to do anything against the C levels and upper management without external help.
deadass this is typical behavior for AAA publishers/game companies. they wait until a bunch of people get royally pissed to finally do something about a problem. then they act like everything is sunshine and rainbows after they fix the problem people have been practically begging them to fix.
My friend was an HR director at a support foundation. There were issues the employees were facing. She carefully took note of them and called upon the higher ups to solve the issues. But the higher ups, including the owner of the foundation, got pissed and said that they did not want her to report problems but to persuade the workers to accept them. She refused and instructed the workers to send collective mails to the higher ups demanding solutions. So the owner fired my friend-FOR DOING HER JOB of communicating the problems of the workers to those in charge.
@@terrafair3248 "Toby is in HR which technically means he works for corporate so he's really not a part of our family, also he's divorced so he's really not a part of his family."
@@MeowtronStar your post still shows that it all still boils down to management and not the HR department. The company I work for is the opposite to almost a detrimental degree. HR will override policies that the company implemented and the associates signed and management will allow it but won't change those policies. That makes us middle management confused in what to do. We get yelled at by HR by upholding the companies policy or get yelled at by ignoring a policy that HR overrode and management allowed. We have gotten to the point that we just inform the associates to go to HR if they don't agree with a policy that we are forced to enforce at the time.
20 bucks says not a single one of these people will face any REAL consequences. Worst case is someone gets forced to resign (not even fired) with a golden parachute.
Please keep the Activision Blizzard news coming. Even if there's a few days without any new stories please still post a recap or something. This is things we all need to keep talking about so Activision Blizzard can be held accountable
@@ishitrealbad3039 it is scattered over the Internet and usually is taken down regularly which leads to it getting uploaded on other places for a while then moved again to avoid having it taken down or the uploader persecuted. It is a headache, but I mean, it is better having the truth out there... though it is for reason like these that way too many governments want to hard regulate the Internet. :/
The part where employee committed self-deletion is what broke my heart. Being abused and having no power to fight back and everybody openly turning the blind eye to your suffering is how I imagine hell. Not the religion or anything, just hell. No job on this fvcking ape-infested space rock is worth of anyone's mental health, let alone life.
I haven't watched any of these videos yet so I don't really know what's going on, I've gathered a woman may have committed self deletion after some serious sexual assault at work? Could someone give me the bullet points or elaborate a bit?
@@mikehunt4265 basically there was two-years long investigation on Blizzard and their job "ethics". Company had frat boy culture thriving, leading to female employees being harassed, mentally abused, always being kept on lower level and paid less than male employees. Male workers would get shitfaced and would joke about assault. One of female workers committed self-deletion because she was bullied into giving nudes and then had those same nudes passed around male employees. Now they found this photo of them with portrait of Bill Cosby, the guy who was suspicious as far as 2005.
@@BRUXXUS fanboys will be fanboys, and they will sell thousands of copies of any drivel they put out. why would they change when people still give them millions of dollars
@@GreatNegus Yeah I agree. The new characters like Rollins, Amaro and the others all suck. Only reason SVU is still relevant is Benson & Fin are still there. At least Stabler finally returned. Organized Crime is an awesome new addition to the L&O franchise.
@@TalonWren honestly they have the money to pay off the courts if they wanted to go that far but odds are they will get away with everything in the end regardless
Yep it's the same law firm that Amazon uses to keep their workers from unionizing and they have serious political connections. These folks are absolute big business sharks and will crush any workers that get above their station. So the chances of anything meaningful actually happening are slim to none.
With how long it took for this to be outed… I’m convinced the more “evil” game companies like ea and Ubisoft have something similar to this but have simply hid it longer
I had to read that title twice because my brain couldn't comprehend the fucking fact that this room not only exists...it's considered a point of pride by the soon to be convicted criminals formerly known as managers at Blizzard!
When people said boycott activision I was like “sweet I’ve been an activist since 2016” (black ops 3 zombies) To my knowledge the activision game I have played is destiny 2 only after it went to gamepass and that’s after bungie left This is like saying boycott Konami, like sweet more reasons not to play Metal gear survive or f*cking Contra
@@luisf2793 I've been one since Advanced Warfare, and the biggest reason I got that one was just because of the limited edition Xbox One it was bundled with had the biggest hard drive at the time.
Even if we entertain the idea that they didn't know about Cosby's allegations, the idea that you have a shrine to anybody in your workplace is just bizarre
Yong, one of the men in the photo and text messages, Dave Kosak, is a lead developer at the newly founded studio Deviation Games. Their community manager is supposed to be open and can be asked any questions, perhaps this should be brought to their attention?
@@isturboot1659 no name for namecalling friend. And there's no clear evidence there'll be a witch hunt on him anyway, youre making all of this up with only your assumptions. Also why are you worried for the guy anyway, you his son or sum? If he's truly innocent then he has nothing to worry about.
@@isturboot1659 the fact that you already think that the dev will say "it was a joke" means you've got some shitty opinions yourself. If they question him and he says it was in bad taste and he regrets it, was swept up by the culture, or if he's changed since then, all of those would be fine. If he's as dense as you are and thinks all of this is a joke, then yea he deserves to be tossed under the bus
Besides cancelling my sub and not giving Blizzard any more purchases, does anyone have ideas on how regular consumers like me can do more to demand accountability? I want to get these guys…
@@nuclearsimian3281 That's a good one, considering how nearly all lawmakers are on these scumbags' payroll. "Contacting your lawmaker" over acts of workplace sexual assault being committed by corporate executives is like complaining to a dog that its owner banged your wife. The most you're gonna get is a glazed, vacant stare.
A good thing to start doing is not referring to yourself a "consumer." You are a human being with a mind. We are not just resources that get gobbled up as a means for billion dollar corporations to receive even more undeserved profits.
Yeah youtube isn't exactly perfect, no language barriers means absolute freedom of speech, but what it brings is uncompressed bullshit from kids across the world.
Better alternatives are emerging that don’t clamp down on no-no words. Everybody uses YT right now, but it’ll be no better than Cable/Netflix in 5 years. Hell, Daily Motion has been around for years and they’re pretty loose on language/topics. Creators just need to branch out and don’t put all their eggs in the YT basket.
This is absolutely appaling and shows that when you're rich you can get away with anything, with slap on the wrist and "quiet leave". If there are any consequences at all, because all the other guys are still around. Tess of D'ubervilles is still very much relevant I see.
These people aren't rich. It's mostly that outside of the company, they are anonymous. The rich person, Bobby Kotick, has until now, had the privilege to ignore it until now.
That's capitalism. System is utterly broken. Can't wait until the Earth is on fire and the rich are escaping into space, because that is where we're headed.
Just wait. EA is next. They already got in hot water numerous times over their severe crunch culture. I wouldn't be surprised if they were guilty of the same thing.
Yeah, after hearing these stories of bro culture from so many industry giants I don't find it difficult that EA has/had their case as well. I'm not accusing, in fact I hope they don't have such cases, but I won't be surprised if they have, I kinda even expect them to come to surface soon if they do exist.
If all of this is really true then why would it just now be show or talked about. If it was actually true then the women and men in the company would had took this to news the moment it happened. It coming out after the fact means those people played a part in it and are trying to make themselves look good and pin the blame on others to think it will make them feel better for doing all of that stuff as well.
Im not defending these dickheads, but im not sure you can really say “activision blizzard drove” her to take her life. I mean unless you had a direct line into her thoughts.
The only heads that are going to roll are going to be those of the victims and everyone who supported them. There's no such thing as being held accountable for evil deeds when evil is in charge.
I'm just gonna put this out there: how f*cking DARE they try to do anything about unionization after this blatant show of disrespect for employees at blizzard. You had your chance to be in charge without a union watching you over your shoulder. The employees need more power.
@@RATsnak3 Sounds like more cope. You're a worker, not a slave. If the rules are upheld you don't need more power, Palpatine. If they're not, sue the fuck out of them or leave. Simple as.
Keep reporting in this YongYea, we need the stories to stick and consequences to be had because otherwise it will just be another Ubisoft or Riot, where the community forgets about it because "oooh shiny new games." These executives and abusers need accountability and we as gamers can hold them accountable too.
I feel like the Bill Cosby portrait is kind of like the “Bill Clinton in a blue dress” portrait they found on Epstein Funny out of context, disturbing in context
That painting, _Parsing Bill,_ isn't that disturbing "in context". Christrophe Nayal posed for it, and Petrina Ryan-Kleid painted it, in 2012. It was one of two parody paintings for her Master's thesis, the other being _War Games,_ depicting Dubya playing with paper airplanes and Jenga twin towers. Both paintings caricature the biggest scandals of each President's tenure. Ryan-Kleid was a fresh Australian immigrant who had little knowledge of either scandal beyond the mass media she had been exposed to. Of course, Dubya's was using 9/11 as an excuse to attack Iraq, while Clinton's was the Monica Lewinski sex scandal (a blue dress was a key piece of evidence). _Parsing Bill_ was sold in a school fundraiser, and she had no idea at the time who acquired it. Whatever the case it found its way to Epstein, and it's possible he kept it as a symbol of his blackmail capabilities - but his house was full of bizarre, arguably fetishy shit like a chess set where all the figures were his staff in their underwear, so who can say. As of 2019 Ryan-Kleid was trying to remove the painting from Saatchi, which allows orders of print copies, because she didn't feel comfortable with the surge in print orders given the circumstances. I don't know if it's been removed yet.
@@DracoHandsome I mean, you answered why I think it's disturbing in context The fact that Epstein kept a portrait of one of his frequent visitors in a dress is quite creepy
@@Ganbarizer The guys in wolf of wall street were at least good enough to actually do their job and mainly flirt with women during parties and shit, Blizzard is just on a whole other level.
@@henrydikes6704 uhm, they were literally having sex with prostitutes during work time in the work place. Did you watch the movie all the way through? ;)
Let's get something clear about Human Resources: They exist to protect the company from its employees. HR's job is not to protect employees, but to protect the company against various liabilities related to employees, including their behavior. This isn't specific to Activision/Blizzard, it's true of all companies with HR staff.
Sadly i bet theyre just gonna handle it like the people incharge of ubisoft _Aledgedly_ did, Which is to fire everyone who complains and force the victims they dont fire to apologize for "causing drama". Greedy corporate execs are the worst
That cosby suite picture I believe is from 2013 blizzcon which was before any accusations came out against cosby so this is kinda of crazy to act as if its any sort of scandalous thing for them to be taking pictures with a big portrait of him
That's a core tenant of capitalism, if workers start to protest the horrific conditions they work in, hire mercenaries to unleash extreme violence on them until they get back to work, and they hope the ones who organized the protest die in the violence.
@@bigboydancannon4325 No one said anything about communism. However, if you believe in Free Markets, people should be free to unionize, strongly...maybe even go on strike while armed with AR-15s.
(An employee is sexually assaulted in the office) Fran one hour later: "it's unfair to judge us for events that happened in the past. For nearly 60 minutes under my watch we haven't had a sexual assault that has been reported. Further, we have taken steps to remove both the accused and victims so future events if they do happen will not be reported on publicly again"
The Washington Post had an article about this on their front page yesterday. It was also reported in the New York Times the day the lawsuit was filed/announced.
Well, you know, fanboys who will never see anythng wrong about their favorite game publishers. They only look up to types like Afrasiabi as "real men".
@@dutzga I wouldn't oversimplify it down to that level. One person I know very well, has rationalized that though he hates the people in charge, he doesn't want to give up playing on the game and paying for the subscription for what essentially goes down to, sunk cost fallacy. Even though the person acknowledged she's paying for a sub par game that is far less than what it originally was. It's really awful when people have to bend over backwards like that. It's a videogame, that you're continously paying for to a company that has become practically irrevocably horrible. And yes, giving money to them does indeed mean you are giving consent to their practice and rewarding them if you are now aware of how they operate.
@@romankvapil9184 This person you know very well is giving their money - even if it's less than it used to be - to this company, knowing what they've done, is indeed giving consent to their practices and rewarding them. Yeah, I'm not oversimplifying anything, it's pretty much as I said, just in different wording - giving consent to their shit despite everything going on.
When you hear Activision Blizzard getting both sued by California and that Cosby suite, you know they’ll be in a world of pain, especially since now that their ways of presenting a new game to court officials and government members are extremely useless.
EAs greed is one thing but this is a whole new level of scumbag and the definitely deserve it but I am afraid ubi soft got there first let's not forget.
@@urbanshadow777 didn't riot also have some like this happen? Only in there Case they weren't getting sued by the government after a 2 year investigation.
100per cent on the mark. Keep up the good work. This should not be swept under the rug. This is some sick stuff that should be axed. Keep up the hard work. GOD BLESS.
Unions are not the great thing you make them out to be. Most Unions - say the Police Officer Union - prevent, hinder, and outright protect workers who break laws. They also prevent non union workers from working, or force non union workers to pay dues to the union, in which they do not benefit from. They also prevent employers from firing non productive employees who abuse the CBA. Bottom line up front - the worker has the choice to either continue employment or quit. I am a firm believer in "Right to Work" laws.
@@robertperrotto870 Unions sound like a double-edge then. They can and will protect you from harassment, demand better wages and working conditions, but will also protect union employees who are unproductive and even criminals you say (?!?). For the most part, Unions will go against the interests of the company hence they usually have the "anti-Union policies" in place. What I don't understand from what you said is about the non-union workers. Why are they being bothered by the union workers about anything when they aren't even members?
It's crazy how they fired the voice actor for Simon "Ghost" Riley for alleged sexist comments online and yet here they are actually doing this shit in real life in their workplace.
That's the kind of brazenness that only comes from someone who knows they'll suffer no consequences even if their sick, twisted actions are brought to light. Take note: this is the perfect example of just how untouchable most corporate execs believe themselves to be. They might as well be wearing a bright neon shirt with "Yeah, I rape women on a daily basis. The real question is: with the amount of wealth and power I wield, what's anyone gonna do about it?" plastered on it in giant block capitals.
Why the hell would you just blatantly name it the "Yes We Guilty as Fuck" suite. I guess when you think you're untouchable simple rational just goes right out the window.
Bullshit, if people kill themselves it is their own responsibility and no one else's. Unless they forced a gun into their hands and made them pull the trigger then they didn't do shit.
@@TheBattleBro being/be rap3d or die. She was over seas surrounded by men who'd abuse her before they'd let her go. You can stay quiet because they had the option not to rape and hurt her and force her to choose. Don't blame the victims dude.
We all love it when the abused fights back. It is pretty rare that the powerful gets the full punishment that the law can muster, but I really hope it happens here, if all these allegations are true.
Unfortunately, all that "fighting" amounts to so much futile screaming into the void when the abusers have access to resources so vast as to render them virtually untouchable. When the firm you're bringing in to "investigate" is barely a step up from organized crime, you're not "investigating"; you're silencing and executing. The A/B execs know absolutely nothing is going to happen to them; if anything, they'll probably walk away from all this with fat seven-figure bonuses in their pockets.
@@MisterVercetti except that their sales will suffer. They're already losing revenue these past few years and now this PR will oy worsen things. The industry is looking at a crash abd it will be horrific.
I started a club in Apex called the Cosby Kids named after the cartoon, with the clan tag RUDY, a character from the show. Got an email at 5am yesterday indicating the club is inappropriate and was taken down. For a while I had no idea why, but seeing all this, it’s funny that it was allowed for as long as it was. Only taken down when it reflects poorly on the industry.
Remember when the execs were trying to justify Kotick's bonus pay by saying he had been a 'benefit to the company'? Sure, a benefit to the company but not to the people working there.
@@nmj1937 of course you take my comment as siding with the company because it's the internet. I was commenting to Yongyea saying HR is to protect the employees. There now all is right in the world.
Yeah this time line is pretty shitty - global warming and passed the point of no return, global pandemic with mutating virus which just won't fucking die, and few beacons of hope - like CD Project Red and Blizzard - are slowly crumbling to dust
I'm just glad to finally see this nightmare coming to an end. Blizzard has been ruining all my favorite games for far too long, I was actually kind of hoping they wouldn't get to finish Diablo 2: Resurrected after what they did with Reforged and now it looks like that might just happen. Rest in peace Warcraft, Starcraft & Diablo, no one can hurt you anymore.
Blizzard didn’t make Diablo 2 Resurrected.. they bought a studio last year that had already completed it. Same company that made the Tony Hawk Pro Skater remakes
I can't stress it more than this: WoW players, Overwatch players, CoD players, any players who plays Activision-Blizzard's game, STOP. By stopping from playing the game, they will get less profit. By getting less profit, investors will demand change. They won't care as much as long as they get their money, but by stopping the flow they will demand a change.
Dude, these corrupt corporate execs are the ones who write the laws and regulations. All the stooges on Capitol Hill do is follow the orders their paymasters give them. You honestly think the execs are gonna ring up their hired pigeons and be all like "Yeah, you know, I think you really oughta pass some new laws that prevent me and my buddies from sexually assaulting our employees as we please"? There's your first problem right there; you have no idea how things work in the real world.
Exactly this. And hey, as history has shown, they don't even have to be finished! Fans will download them en masse regardless because of mindless fan loyalty. It's almost just as bad as Blizzard's actions, really. Yes, Blizzard is filled with truly vile people, but the fact that customers can look at all of this and go "Y'know, I'm pretty cool with this" is downright disgusting.
@@robofistsrevenge3288 Yesterday I looked through Twitch and couldn’t believe the amount of people streaming/watching their games. I have the feeling this will come and go and nothing will be done.
Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Hearthstone... There was a time when these franchises dominated both the gaming community and industry. Times change, times change...
You're in for a surprise if you think shareholders are gonna drop coin over this ...I need you to introduce yourselves to the real nature of the market.
Is possible that Activision stocks will rise to the heavens specifically for this. Their last games, regardless of quality, have produced too much money, so someone can risk themselves for a piece of the cake
@@isturboot1659 the people doing the abusing are middle and upper management, putting out statements to deny problems, promoting and protecting abusers. We aren’t entitled to games, but people are supposed to be entitled to a safe workplace, nobody should have to put up with abuse to make a shitty FPS game.
They literally posted Cosby Suite pics and chat messages on Facebook as a flex... that's how little shame these predatory Blizzard devs had and how little they worried they'd suffer any consequences.
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This is literally a giant cartoon billboard with enormous arrows pointing down, with the words "We're doing shady shit" plastered on top in glowing neon lights being broadcasted over live air waves.
I can imagine like a looney toon style like that😂😂
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@@AxxLAfriku Hello there good person. It's not the hate that people don't like, it's just how you try to take control of seemingly random comment sections to self advertise; this leads people to hate you. At least that's what most of us see.
Back to the main discussion here, that's just a funny picture in my mind of a looney tunes style "obvious can't miss" signpost.
It wasn't for the time they created it.
After all the controversy with Blizzard the last few years, the Cosby Suite legit sounds like a sketch from South Park. You couldn't make up a sketch as messy as all the real life B.S. Blizzard has going on.
Yeah totally a South Park move
Even South Park gave up satirizing real life these days given how much real life is satire...
Cosby suite was dubbed after him, before the allegations against Cosby became puplic knowledge, so I find it hard to pin them down for that.
@@Realag666 Play ignorant if you want, but just because "the public" didn't know about it doesn't mean *the Blizzard staff in the picture* didn't. It was already an open secret within the industry since at least the mid 2000s, just like literally anything to do with sexual assault in Hollywood or related industries; Drawn Together put a Cosby joke in an episode from 2006, where he cried about being "just another unemployed sexual predator" without his pudding ads. His _continued_ "teflon image" despite the allegations and the settlements was what Hannibal Buress was joking about in his stand-up.
The Cosby Suite was named after him, and all Afrasiabi and etc talked about in their publicly-posted chats as a massive flex was "bringing women up to the Cos" to fuck them. They weren't talking about pudding pops or ugly sweaters or anything else the public would know Cosby for. Any mention of his ugly sweater or the appearance of the suite is a post-hoc rationalization on their part, the same as trying to say "the women" they talked about was another guy's wife and his sister. After Afrasiabi joked about wanting to fuck/marry "all of them" because he's middle-eastern.
Truth stranger than fiction eh?
Them calling it the *’Bill Cosby Suite’* has to be one of the biggest yikes moment in history
I laughed so hard.
"Cosby Suite" is hilarious.
Their out of season April Fools jokes will continue to be revealed.
*top 10 yikes moments in history, #1*
@@PeacefulJoint nice bait
@@PeacefulJoint - the charges where not dropped! Cosby testified under bargain - the terms of the bargain made his testimony inadmissible in court and technically nullified his conviction because his own words from the testimony under bargain where the damning evidence.
He is guilty and walks free due to a technicality.
Yong, please don't worry about feeling you're covering this too much. This needs to be covered and continuously presented to the short attention span of the internet. As Sterling said countless times, these shitty corps want people to get fed up with this news and to forget.
Exactly, never stop reporting on all these.
Yes. Keep shining light on it. I am a veteran of this industry who has spent a lot of time trying to fight against corruption in management, and usually all that happens is I get fired and make little change. The press helping us clean this industry is GREATLY appreciated. It's hard for us low level devs to do anything against the C levels and upper management without external help.
When bobby kotick said “discrimination is not tolerable at this company”, he meant no women nor man is safe from harassment
Equal opportunity harassment!
"We apologize for our sexism in harassment of employees, from now on executives shall grab men by the bussy as well"
what?
That company violates a lot of ethics.
"Immediately took action 7 years later"
Yeah, sounds about right.
"Mr. Nimoy, I came as soon as I heard what happened centuries ago!" ~ Philip Fry, Futurama 'Where No Fan Has Gone Before'
????
Blizzard’s legendary “Soon(TM)”
deadass this is typical behavior for AAA publishers/game companies. they wait until a bunch of people get royally pissed to finally do something about a problem. then they act like everything is sunshine and rainbows after they fix the problem people have been practically begging them to fix.
@Sypha Flowen They didn't remove Afrasiabi's npcs for damage control purposes, they did it in protestation
Just when you thought Blizzard couldn't dig themselves a deeper hole...
They end up digging a volcano
The end of activision is near anyway
They did, they are hiring union busters.
Youre everywhere
They find an industrial drill
Rermember: HR isnt there for your protection, its there to protect the company. Thats it and thats all.
Well, they did a piss poor job given the current lawsuit, huh?
My friend was an HR director at a support foundation. There were issues the employees were facing. She carefully took note of them and called upon the higher ups to solve the issues.
But the higher ups, including the owner of the foundation, got pissed and said that they did not want her to report problems but to persuade the workers to accept them. She refused and instructed the workers to send collective mails to the higher ups demanding solutions.
So the owner fired my friend-FOR DOING HER JOB of communicating the problems of the workers to those in charge.
@@terrafair3248 "Toby is in HR which technically means he works for corporate so he's really not a part of our family, also he's divorced so he's really not a part of his family."
@@davidchapman7350 HR "brushing things under the rug" until the rug is big enough to trip over. . . This is 12yrs + in the making.
@@MeowtronStar your post still shows that it all still boils down to management and not the HR department. The company I work for is the opposite to almost a detrimental degree. HR will override policies that the company implemented and the associates signed and management will allow it but won't change those policies. That makes us middle management confused in what to do. We get yelled at by HR by upholding the companies policy or get yelled at by ignoring a policy that HR overrode and management allowed. We have gotten to the point that we just inform the associates to go to HR if they don't agree with a policy that we are forced to enforce at the time.
20 bucks says not a single one of these people will face any REAL consequences. Worst case is someone gets forced to resign (not even fired) with a golden parachute.
Called the "Ubisoft getaway"
It should if it the case goes viral, specially in the game dev community. They wouldn't be able to find another job.
Please keep the Activision Blizzard news coming. Even if there's a few days without any new stories please still post a recap or something. This is things we all need to keep talking about so Activision Blizzard can be held accountable
Absolutely because if not, It'll take about less than two weeks for it to be forgotten.
Also Ubisoft not doing any changes in their problems.
Nothing will happen lel
@@jarigustafsson7620 RIOT GAMES
It's becoming less surprising every day that Bobby Kotick was in Jeffrey Epstein's black book.
My favorite part there was the email ending with the activison address too. Can't be any more blatant eh Bobby boy?
wait, where did you get acces to Epstein's books?
@@ishitrealbad3039 they were leaked in 2016?
@@presentedbyconormctappersp4565 Because the book was essentially a phonebook so he had the "official" contact rather than a personal one?
@@ishitrealbad3039 it is scattered over the Internet and usually is taken down regularly which leads to it getting uploaded on other places for a while then moved again to avoid having it taken down or the uploader persecuted.
It is a headache, but I mean, it is better having the truth out there... though it is for reason like these that way too many governments want to hard regulate the Internet. :/
The scariest part is that these aren’t even the worst stories. I feel sick for the employees 😔
The kind of bedtime horror stories too screwed up to even tell your children
OMG there are worse stories from Activision-Blizzard? What could be worse than employee abuse?
The part where employee committed self-deletion is what broke my heart. Being abused and having no power to fight back and everybody openly turning the blind eye to your suffering is how I imagine hell. Not the religion or anything, just hell. No job on this fvcking ape-infested space rock is worth of anyone's mental health, let alone life.
I haven't watched any of these videos yet so I don't really know what's going on, I've gathered a woman may have committed self deletion after some serious sexual assault at work?
Could someone give me the bullet points or elaborate a bit?
@@mikehunt4265 basically there was two-years long investigation on Blizzard and their job "ethics". Company had frat boy culture thriving, leading to female employees being harassed, mentally abused, always being kept on lower level and paid less than male employees. Male workers would get shitfaced and would joke about assault. One of female workers committed self-deletion because she was bullied into giving nudes and then had those same nudes passed around male employees. Now they found this photo of them with portrait of Bill Cosby, the guy who was suspicious as far as 2005.
Aannndddd the law firm Bobby has brought in to ‘investigate” also advertises as union-busters.
Kinda hard to trust the motives here.
Duh, they're targeting people who to fire "let go" in coming years.
Oh great. Not surprised.
Nothing will change. Nothing.
Its worse than that. They literally advertise as being on the side of the company and doing whatever they can to "minimize claims."
@@BRUXXUS fanboys will be fanboys, and they will sell thousands of copies of any drivel they put out.
why would they change when people still give them millions of dollars
If any of you are surprised about this, you're stupid. There's no other way to say it. Corporations are evil, it's that simple.
The Law and Order SVU episode that steals this is going to be good
SVU went to shit after Stabler retired.
@@GreatNegus Yeah I agree. The new characters like Rollins, Amaro and the others all suck. Only reason SVU is still relevant is Benson & Fin are still there. At least Stabler finally returned. Organized Crime is an awesome new addition to the L&O franchise.
Just naming it “Cosby suite” tells me exactly what goes down in that room
jello pudding
@@figjam9530 jello shots?
@@figjam9530 Probably laced with Benadryl
People eating bowls of Fruit Loops and puking on each other’s chests?
EA: I have surprise mechanics.
Activision: We have a "Cosby Suite."
They're making EA look like complete saints right now, and that's quite an accomplishment.
EA: you took the throne of worst company ever form me
@@pizzagamecube2564 IKR?! We live in the weirdest timeline.
*Blizzard
@@pizzagamecube2564 Both Ubisoft and Activision managed to make EA looks competent.
Blizzard looked at CD Projekt Red’s PR mess and took it as a challenge.
Blizzard never lose 💪
Yooooo
Didn't CD just have Crunch and a bad launch
More like Ubisoft!
CDPR is hardly a PR mess. It was a hiccup.
Oh hey, now ActiBlizz is hiring a union busting lawfirm to break up their people from unionizing. Oh boy.
Yeah and thats going to backfire magnificently.
@@TalonWren Doubt it.
@@TalonWren honestly they have the money to pay off the courts if they wanted to go that far but odds are they will get away with everything in the end regardless
A lot of unions are socialist garbage
Yep it's the same law firm that Amazon uses to keep their workers from unionizing and they have serious political connections. These folks are absolute big business sharks and will crush any workers that get above their station. So the chances of anything meaningful actually happening are slim to none.
With how long it took for this to be outed… I’m convinced the more “evil” game companies like ea and Ubisoft have something similar to this but have simply hid it longer
Apparently the picture was from 2013
I had to read that title twice because my brain couldn't comprehend the fucking fact that this room not only exists...it's considered a point of pride by the soon to be convicted criminals formerly known as managers at Blizzard!
The only interesting thing Blizzard has released in the last few years that has held people's attention.
Gotteeeem
Lol
Hahahaha
When people said boycott activision I was like “sweet I’ve been an activist since 2016” (black ops 3 zombies)
To my knowledge the activision game I have played is destiny 2 only after it went to gamepass and that’s after bungie left
This is like saying boycott Konami, like sweet more reasons not to play Metal gear survive or f*cking Contra
@@luisf2793 I've been one since Advanced Warfare, and the biggest reason I got that one was just because of the limited edition Xbox One it was bundled with had the biggest hard drive at the time.
Even if we entertain the idea that they didn't know about Cosby's allegations, the idea that you have a shrine to anybody in your workplace is just bizarre
Unless it's a shrine to animals
Well priests have Jesus shrine in their workplace
Bizarre yes but not out of the ordinary. Henry Ford had a shrine of Mussolini in his Detroit office...
@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 That's still pretty out of the ordinary though.
@@NightmareBlade10 Its Henry Ford.What do you expect lol
Yong, one of the men in the photo and text messages, Dave Kosak, is a lead developer at the newly founded studio Deviation Games. Their community manager is supposed to be open and can be asked any questions, perhaps this should be brought to their attention?
Oh he'll deviate from the law alright. Truly living up for his Deviation name huh?
@@isturboot1659 I dont see any intention of "cancelling" the man in OP's comment, he merely wanted to ask some questions
@@isturboot1659 no name for namecalling friend. And there's no clear evidence there'll be a witch hunt on him anyway, youre making all of this up with only your assumptions. Also why are you worried for the guy anyway, you his son or sum? If he's truly innocent then he has nothing to worry about.
@@isturboot1659 the fact that you already think that the dev will say "it was a joke" means you've got some shitty opinions yourself. If they question him and he says it was in bad taste and he regrets it, was swept up by the culture, or if he's changed since then, all of those would be fine. If he's as dense as you are and thinks all of this is a joke, then yea he deserves to be tossed under the bus
Looks like we got a Blizzard employee doing damage control
Besides cancelling my sub and not giving Blizzard any more purchases, does anyone have ideas on how regular consumers like me can do more to demand accountability? I want to get these guys…
Contact your lawmaker.
@@nuclearsimian3281 That's a good one, considering how nearly all lawmakers are on these scumbags' payroll. "Contacting your lawmaker" over acts of workplace sexual assault being committed by corporate executives is like complaining to a dog that its owner banged your wife. The most you're gonna get is a glazed, vacant stare.
A good thing to start doing is not referring to yourself a "consumer." You are a human being with a mind. We are not just resources that get gobbled up as a means for billion dollar corporations to receive even more undeserved profits.
tell everyone that you know , i guess? there isnt much we can do other than to not give them your money
Make a request for South Park to create an episode about Activision Blizzard.
You know TH-cam's algorithm is shit when content creators have to spell out certain words rather than say them.
Instead of using the existing TH-cam Kids app, they turned the entire site into a daycare.
Yeah youtube isn't exactly perfect, no language barriers means absolute freedom of speech, but what it brings is uncompressed bullshit from kids across the world.
Better alternatives are emerging that don’t clamp down on no-no words. Everybody uses YT right now, but it’ll be no better than Cable/Netflix in 5 years. Hell, Daily Motion has been around for years and they’re pretty loose on language/topics. Creators just need to branch out and don’t put all their eggs in the YT basket.
This is absolutely appaling and shows that when you're rich you can get away with anything, with slap on the wrist and "quiet leave". If there are any consequences at all, because all the other guys are still around. Tess of D'ubervilles is still very much relevant I see.
That show left me psychologically changed.
This is hilaroious
These people aren't rich. It's mostly that outside of the company, they are anonymous. The rich person, Bobby Kotick, has until now, had the privilege to ignore it until now.
Capitalism do be about exploiting workers for owner profit. :/
That's capitalism.
System is utterly broken. Can't wait until the Earth is on fire and the rich are escaping into space, because that is where we're headed.
EA is probably laughing their asses off and eating popcorn as they watch the biggest L in industry history.
Or they're burning A LOT of evidence. I bet they have their own abuse cases to cover up.
Just wait. EA is next. They already got in hot water numerous times over their severe crunch culture. I wouldn't be surprised if they were guilty of the same thing.
Yeah, after hearing these stories of bro culture from so many industry giants I don't find it difficult that EA has/had their case as well. I'm not accusing, in fact I hope they don't have such cases, but I won't be surprised if they have, I kinda even expect them to come to surface soon if they do exist.
EA is next. They going down too for their crimes.
EA: bois we did it. We are no longer the worst.
The fact that Activision Blizzard drove an employee to take their life is truly heinous. Corpo heads deserve to roll.
She was having an affair with a manager. He shared dirty pictures of her with other employees before she killed herself. Truly disgusting.
If all of this is really true then why would it just now be show or talked about. If it was actually true then the women and men in the company would had took this to news the moment it happened. It coming out after the fact means those people played a part in it and are trying to make themselves look good and pin the blame on others to think it will make them feel better for doing all of that stuff as well.
Im not defending these dickheads, but im not sure you can really say “activision blizzard drove” her to take her life. I mean unless you had a direct line into her thoughts.
@@gretasstolendreams2154 It's alleged that the woman's manager showed dirty pictures of her to other employees before she took her life.
The only heads that are going to roll are going to be those of the victims and everyone who supported them. There's no such thing as being held accountable for evil deeds when evil is in charge.
My god, just looking at the thumbnail is a MEGA YIKES
Only cringe losers use the term Yikes.
I’m impressed by the number of times Yong said “Afrasiabi” without messing it up.
I messed it up reading it in my head
Oh. Back up again. Here’s my original comment:
I’m pretty sure this qualifies as a full-on, five-alarm dumpster fire. And it is glorious.
Nothing as satisfying as sweet justice, truly glorious
GET READY FOR THE NEXT BATTLE
@@neon-neku neon neku Wins
I was here - can confirm. When I tried to reply I got an error before it was taken down
@@DanCGe thank you!
So, you can ACTUALLY pose with a photo of Bill Cosby and the caption still has to write 'allegedly pose'.
Gotta cover your bases. Rich people can sue you, and they might end up winning even if they're not right.
@@atlusc can’t sue someone for truth.
@@ExecutionStyleInc rich people can pay good lawyers to find loopholes or get you on a technicality.
I know right
@@isturboot1659 his conviction was overturned because the DA used illegal evidence
Activsion Blizzard also just now hired a company to stop the employes from forming an Union...
actual bastards
Unions need to rise up More and leave this awful company.
The SAME ONES AMAZON HIRED MIGHT I ADD
I'm just gonna put this out there: how f*cking DARE they try to do anything about unionization after this blatant show of disrespect for employees at blizzard. You had your chance to be in charge without a union watching you over your shoulder. The employees need more power.
The employees don't need more power. It's not communism. They need to be treated fairly and to have the rules upheld.
@@bigboydancannon4325 Wait, how would that actually be enforced, though
@@pdan4
Negotiations, bargains, worst case scenarios - by court order or the police.
@@RATsnak3
Sounds like more cope. You're a worker, not a slave. If the rules are upheld you don't need more power, Palpatine. If they're not, sue the fuck out of them or leave. Simple as.
@@bigboydancannon4325 A single employee also cannot usually afford to just quit. Employees need more power in the workspace. PERIOD.
Kotick's statement includes hiring a lawyer firm that was involved in union- busting with Amazon
RIP Blizzard, you deserve every bit of what's coming.
Well said.
*golf clap*
RIP
Rest
In
Piss
Activision never killed Blizzard, Blizzard killed itself
"What's coming" being absolutely nothing in all likelihood.
>be overwatch intern
>"hey anon, do you wanna see our bill cosby shrine?"
>"you fuckin wot"
Keep reporting in this YongYea, we need the stories to stick and consequences to be had because otherwise it will just be another Ubisoft or Riot, where the community forgets about it because "oooh shiny new games." These executives and abusers need accountability and we as gamers can hold them accountable too.
lol Yong high key making it a point to put every single one of these guys on blast is magnificent 🤣
I feel like the Bill Cosby portrait is kind of like the “Bill Clinton in a blue dress” portrait they found on Epstein
Funny out of context, disturbing in context
That painting, _Parsing Bill,_ isn't that disturbing "in context".
Christrophe Nayal posed for it, and Petrina Ryan-Kleid painted it, in 2012. It was one of two parody paintings for her Master's thesis, the other being _War Games,_ depicting Dubya playing with paper airplanes and Jenga twin towers.
Both paintings caricature the biggest scandals of each President's tenure. Ryan-Kleid was a fresh Australian immigrant who had little knowledge of either scandal beyond the mass media she had been exposed to. Of course, Dubya's was using 9/11 as an excuse to attack Iraq, while Clinton's was the Monica Lewinski sex scandal (a blue dress was a key piece of evidence).
_Parsing Bill_ was sold in a school fundraiser, and she had no idea at the time who acquired it. Whatever the case it found its way to Epstein, and it's possible he kept it as a symbol of his blackmail capabilities - but his house was full of bizarre, arguably fetishy shit like a chess set where all the figures were his staff in their underwear, so who can say.
As of 2019 Ryan-Kleid was trying to remove the painting from Saatchi, which allows orders of print copies, because she didn't feel comfortable with the surge in print orders given the circumstances. I don't know if it's been removed yet.
@@DracoHandsome I mean, you answered why I think it's disturbing in context
The fact that Epstein kept a portrait of one of his frequent visitors in a dress is quite creepy
@@hilotakenaka russian dissinformation
I thought it was photoshopped at first. This is nightmare fuel
Activision-Blizzard: “Yo, EA! Watch me throw this can of gasoline in a campfire!”
A can? This a literally truck filled with gasoline or diesel nose dive crashing from a cliff onto a forest filled with TNT
@@dogsoldier123Let’s be honest it’s been hell for a while now and people are just now noticing the flames
With each news Blizzard looks less like a professional gaming company and more like the sexist office company from that one Brooklyn 99 episode
It feels like they watched Wolf of Wallstreet too many times and wanted to emulate what they saw.
It feels like thy watched Idiocrazy to many times and wanted to emulate what they saw.
@@Ganbarizer The guys in wolf of wall street were at least good enough to actually do their job and mainly flirt with women during parties and shit, Blizzard is just on a whole other level.
@@henrydikes6704 uhm, they were literally having sex with prostitutes during work time in the work place. Did you watch the movie all the way through? ;)
@@korenn9381 the prostitutes weren't employees tho
Let's get something clear about Human Resources: They exist to protect the company from its employees. HR's job is not to protect employees, but to protect the company against various liabilities related to employees, including their behavior. This isn't specific to Activision/Blizzard, it's true of all companies with HR staff.
You know it’s messed up when the title of the video sounds like an article from The Onion but it’s actually true
Sadly i bet theyre just gonna handle it like the people incharge of ubisoft _Aledgedly_ did,
Which is to fire everyone who complains and force the victims they dont fire to apologize for "causing drama".
Greedy corporate execs are the worst
I think this has gone too far into the light to be swept under the rug at this point.
Or at least I pray this is the case.
@@Aulakauss i really hope so, this is a really bad problem
The State of California is the one launching the Lawsuit. There is no firing them.
@@arthurrebello919 Unfortunate overall but fortuitous in this instance.
So fire half their employees after they striked? I see another lawsuit coming
That really tells us that someone's age and being adult are two different things.
As someone who works in retail, this is the truest sentence in the world.
Found out the hard way. Adults are no different from children...
Some people grow up and some just grow older.
Don't forget bobby kotick receive 200 million dollar bonus while 200 employee were laid off March this year.
His voice don't mean shit
The Room was named before the accusations against cosby.
I didnt knew 2013 that Cosby is a shady person. Did you knew it 2013?
That cosby suite picture I believe is from 2013 blizzcon which was before any accusations came out against cosby so this is kinda of crazy to act as if its any sort of scandalous thing for them to be taking pictures with a big portrait of him
“Aye this a really good drink”
“Wait, where am I?”
Leaving my old comment again since the last vid got deleted
Still golden.
It tastes better aged.
Me after 2 Trulys
@@Dirtyz1234 my man
Also, Blizzard hired a union-busting lawfirm as a response to their employees starting to protest publically.
That's a core tenant of capitalism, if workers start to protest the horrific conditions they work in, hire mercenaries to unleash extreme violence on them until they get back to work, and they hope the ones who organized the protest die in the violence.
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor
*rEaL cOMmuIsm HaS nevEr bEaN tRIeD* intensifies
@@bigboydancannon4325 No one said anything about communism. However, if you believe in Free Markets, people should be free to unionize, strongly...maybe even go on strike while armed with AR-15s.
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor
For sure, totally agree. If the shoe was on the other foot, however...
@@bigboydancannon4325 The Shoe is already on the other foot, Unions are being attacked, politically, economically, and in some cases, violently.
"WE CALL THIS DRINK THE CYBER COSBY"
*sipping drink* "Pardon?"
That’s wierd na- *blacks out*
Im bla-
*spit in face* “well never coming back here again”
we're gonna grape these bitches - blizzard director probably
"C'mon guys, it's just a room where we had pudding pops.""
😂 fried. ☠️
This is almost comedic at this point. I’m expecting Yong’s next video be that Activ/Blizz had a Legion of Doom headquarters this whole time.
(An employee is sexually assaulted in the office)
Fran one hour later: "it's unfair to judge us for events that happened in the past. For nearly 60 minutes under my watch we haven't had a sexual assault that has been reported. Further, we have taken steps to remove both the accused and victims so future events if they do happen will not be reported on publicly again"
Fran, after writing that: "Hang on, was that one reported? No? Then change 60 minutes to 24 hours quick!"
Fran is an absolute meme, the only person who I think deserves the treatment the actual Blizzard employees faced
No Empire last forever.
Agree. Even the Byzantine Empire ended after 1100 years.
@@frankieseward8667 you mean Roman Empire?
@@RebelWvlf The Byzantine Empire lasted from 330-1453 CE, about 1100 years.
NELF
Agreed
I haven’t seen any major media discuss this. ActiBliz will just stay quiet and ride it out
The Washington Post had an article about this on their front page yesterday. It was also reported in the New York Times the day the lawsuit was filed/announced.
@@isturboot1659 some links?
Calling it 'Cosby Suite' sounds like something pulled straight from South Park.
Blizzard has dug themselves so deep President Winnie the Pooh has welcomed them to their version of Hundred Acre China.
5:09 THIS is what shows how verbal counseling and lessons are useless.
Greg Street being there makes sense all things considering at Riot ...
Jesus christ, and we have players that still are essentially giving this company money to play their shoddy half-products still.
Well, you know, fanboys who will never see anythng wrong about their favorite game publishers. They only look up to types like Afrasiabi as "real men".
@@dutzga I wouldn't oversimplify it down to that level. One person I know very well, has rationalized that though he hates the people in charge, he doesn't want to give up playing on the game and paying for the subscription for what essentially goes down to, sunk cost fallacy. Even though the person acknowledged she's paying for a sub par game that is far less than what it originally was. It's really awful when people have to bend over backwards like that. It's a videogame, that you're continously paying for to a company that has become practically irrevocably horrible. And yes, giving money to them does indeed mean you are giving consent to their practice and rewarding them if you are now aware of how they operate.
@@romankvapil9184 This person you know very well is giving their money - even if it's less than it used to be - to this company, knowing what they've done, is indeed giving consent to their practices and rewarding them.
Yeah, I'm not oversimplifying anything, it's pretty much as I said, just in different wording - giving consent to their shit despite everything going on.
When you hear Activision Blizzard getting both sued by California and that Cosby suite, you know they’ll be in a world of pain, especially since now that their ways of presenting a new game to court officials and government members are extremely useless.
I hope Activision Blizzard goes bankrupt
EA now giving the crown of worse game company of the year to Activision/Blizzard
EAs greed is one thing but this is a whole new level of scumbag and the definitely deserve it but I am afraid ubi soft got there first let's not forget.
@@urbanshadow777 didn't riot also have some like this happen? Only in there Case they weren't getting sued by the government after a 2 year investigation.
What about Ubisoft?
@@richardpatterson1694 well riot vp was the member of cosby suite so that makes sense now
@@rickygervaissaidhi2524 what the fuck? Man I always said OW and LOL had a lot in common but holy shit.
Homie got 18 sources… it’s up for ACT/BLIZZ
5:59 skip the recap and learn the new stuff
Thank you good sir/ma’m!
@@faileverything8789 no problem :3
100per cent on the mark. Keep up the good work. This should not be swept under the rug. This is some sick stuff that should be axed. Keep up the hard work. GOD BLESS.
Yes employee’s. Take your pitchforks and rise up against the corrupt exec’s
Hey Yong, you gonna report on the fact that Activision is hiring a union-busting law firm? The very same law firm that Amazon hires?
Unions are not the great thing you make them out to be. Most Unions - say the Police Officer Union - prevent, hinder, and outright protect workers who break laws. They also prevent non union workers from working, or force non union workers to pay dues to the union, in which they do not benefit from. They also prevent employers from firing non productive employees who abuse the CBA. Bottom line up front - the worker has the choice to either continue employment or quit. I am a firm believer in "Right to Work" laws.
@@robertperrotto870 Unions sound like a double-edge then. They can and will protect you from harassment, demand better wages and working conditions, but will also protect union employees who are unproductive and even criminals you say (?!?). For the most part, Unions will go against the interests of the company hence they usually have the "anti-Union policies" in place.
What I don't understand from what you said is about the non-union workers. Why are they being bothered by the union workers about anything when they aren't even members?
@@robertperrotto870 cool
@@robertperrotto870 found the amazon bot
@@k.ebartlett1830 whatever you say. Unions truly are not as great as you think. They have serious flaws.
When there’s a room dedicated to Bill Cosby, even if you don’t know him, you know it’s *REALLY BAD*
Internet Historian and Down The Rabbit Hole need to check this case out.
And the right opinion
Don't forget crowbcat
Might be a bit new for Fred knudson
“I’m sure you’re all well aware of the ‘Cosby Suite.’”
Me: “The W H A T”
It's crazy how they fired the voice actor for Simon "Ghost" Riley for alleged sexist comments online and yet here they are actually doing this shit in real life in their workplace.
Doesn't really get more blatant than *the Cosby suite* huh
Blatant as they can be
Is that a challenge? They might take you serious lol
That's the kind of brazenness that only comes from someone who knows they'll suffer no consequences even if their sick, twisted actions are brought to light. Take note: this is the perfect example of just how untouchable most corporate execs believe themselves to be. They might as well be wearing a bright neon shirt with "Yeah, I rape women on a daily basis. The real question is: with the amount of wealth and power I wield, what's anyone gonna do about it?" plastered on it in giant block capitals.
Yeah, dude's might've well just called it the Rape Room.
Why the hell would you just blatantly name it the "Yes We Guilty as Fuck" suite. I guess when you think you're untouchable simple rational just goes right out the window.
Arrogance blinds you to reality.
If I remember correctly, Bill Cosby was released from prison recently...
If I remember correctly, Bill Cosby was released from prison recently...
Well it was a joke too,not saying it was a good one(even though the photo is pretty funny)
As it wasn't public knowledge at the time, it's really easy for you to tell it was a mistake when you have all the information.
I was beginning to wonder what happened to the original video.
Law enforcement must hold those accountable for their sick disrespectful crimes.
Sometimes, I wonder if we're all living in a South Park Episode when shit like this happens.
I can't imagine what Acitivion Blizzard must be hiding about the employee that committed suicide. They are probably responsible for it.
Bullshit, if people kill themselves it is their own responsibility and no one else's. Unless they forced a gun into their hands and made them pull the trigger then they didn't do shit.
@@TheBattleBro being/be rap3d or die. She was over seas surrounded by men who'd abuse her before they'd let her go. You can stay quiet because they had the option not to rape and hurt her and force her to choose. Don't blame the victims dude.
We all love it when the abused fights back. It is pretty rare that the powerful gets the full punishment that the law can muster, but I really hope it happens here, if all these allegations are true.
Unfortunately, all that "fighting" amounts to so much futile screaming into the void when the abusers have access to resources so vast as to render them virtually untouchable. When the firm you're bringing in to "investigate" is barely a step up from organized crime, you're not "investigating"; you're silencing and executing. The A/B execs know absolutely nothing is going to happen to them; if anything, they'll probably walk away from all this with fat seven-figure bonuses in their pockets.
@@MisterVercetti except that their sales will suffer. They're already losing revenue these past few years and now this PR will oy worsen things. The industry is looking at a crash abd it will be horrific.
Me: it can’t get worse
It: gets worse
I started a club in Apex called the Cosby Kids named after the cartoon, with the clan tag RUDY, a character from the show. Got an email at 5am yesterday indicating the club is inappropriate and was taken down. For a while I had no idea why, but seeing all this, it’s funny that it was allowed for as long as it was. Only taken down when it reflects poorly on the industry.
Remember when the execs were trying to justify Kotick's bonus pay by saying he had been a 'benefit to the company'?
Sure, a benefit to the company but not to the people working there.
Hr's role is not to protect the employees. It's to protect the company.
@@nmj1937 of course you take my comment as siding with the company because it's the internet. I was commenting to Yongyea saying HR is to protect the employees. There now all is right in the world.
I cant believe we live in this timeline
Same.
Things end, life lesson that will help you a lot
Yeah this time line is pretty shitty - global warming and passed the point of no return, global pandemic with mutating virus which just won't fucking die, and few beacons of hope - like CD Project Red and Blizzard - are slowly crumbling to dust
It's def the Biff timeline
@@OldManYellsAtClouds the good ending
I'm just glad to finally see this nightmare coming to an end. Blizzard has been ruining all my favorite games for far too long, I was actually kind of hoping they wouldn't get to finish Diablo 2: Resurrected after what they did with Reforged and now it looks like that might just happen. Rest in peace Warcraft, Starcraft & Diablo, no one can hurt you anymore.
Of course, it's the games you're worried about. Carry on, MightyLink. Carry on.
Blizzard didn’t make Diablo 2 Resurrected.. they bought a studio last year that had already completed it. Same company that made the Tony Hawk Pro Skater remakes
I can’t believe I’ve been touching their Crash Bandicoot games all this time, I feel disgusted.
I can't stress it more than this: WoW players, Overwatch players, CoD players, any players who plays Activision-Blizzard's game, STOP.
By stopping from playing the game, they will get less profit. By getting less profit, investors will demand change. They won't care as much as long as they get their money, but by stopping the flow they will demand a change.
Cosby suite, are you serious? Like where you go to get Cosby'd? Holy crap I'm surprised there were no pill bottles on that counter as well.
Check public trust for Cosby for the time when they named it like that, it will maybe explain some things.
Remember, HR is there to protect the company, not the employees.
‼️‼️‼️ Say it LOUDER ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Let's not forget ubi soft was at this sht too. I think there needs to be some heavy regulations and new workplace law to stamp this sht out.
Dude, these corrupt corporate execs are the ones who write the laws and regulations. All the stooges on Capitol Hill do is follow the orders their paymasters give them. You honestly think the execs are gonna ring up their hired pigeons and be all like "Yeah, you know, I think you really oughta pass some new laws that prevent me and my buddies from sexually assaulting our employees as we please"? There's your first problem right there; you have no idea how things work in the real world.
Watch them release an OW2 or new CoD video in the coming days and weeks to divert attention
Exactly this. And hey, as history has shown, they don't even have to be finished! Fans will download them en masse regardless because of mindless fan loyalty.
It's almost just as bad as Blizzard's actions, really. Yes, Blizzard is filled with truly vile people, but the fact that customers can look at all of this and go "Y'know, I'm pretty cool with this" is downright disgusting.
@@robofistsrevenge3288 Yesterday I looked through Twitch and couldn’t believe the amount of people streaming/watching their games.
I have the feeling this will come and go and nothing will be done.
Apparently they did have Overwatch-focused news, but held it back because of how huge this became. Expect it to come out soon.
"Quick, release Diablo 2 ReCensored to show we're allies!"
I’m not playing or getting excited for anything they make. It is not going to fool me.
"Anybody have odorant? Either wet dog, fresh garbage or Activision/Blizzard will do."
Monsters inc?😏
@@spunkgoogler8300 that and a nod at a joke Undead characters say on wow. /silly
Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Hearthstone...
There was a time when these franchises dominated both the gaming community and industry.
Times change, times change...
I bet Activision Blizzard's stocks are piercing through the decaying shit riddled bottom.
You're in for a surprise if you think shareholders are gonna drop coin over this ...I need you to introduce yourselves to the real nature of the market.
@@xdjrunner I need to introduce you to the nature of a shareholder even if it drops a penny they panic
Is possible that Activision stocks will rise to the heavens specifically for this. Their last games, regardless of quality, have produced too much money, so someone can risk themselves for a piece of the cake
@@nightruler666 that won't happen until *capital gains tax brackets* are rewritten to stop favoring rich people and in this case, shareholders.
@@xdjrunner you can look at their stocks yourself and see that they're absolutely plummeting
Kinda makes you wonder why Jeff Kaplan left during the development of overwatch 2🤔
He just ran away, he knew shit was about to hit the fan
@@ME262MKI or didn't want to have anything to do anymore with that joke of a company.
Burn Activision Blizzard to the ground and start over from scratch, call it a Publisher Reborn.
@@isturboot1659 it’s not the devs that need to go, it’s management.
@@isturboot1659 the people doing the abusing are middle and upper management, putting out statements to deny problems, promoting and protecting abusers. We aren’t entitled to games, but people are supposed to be entitled to a safe workplace, nobody should have to put up with abuse to make a shitty FPS game.
Keep it coming Yong !
This evil has gone unchecked for way too long. Raising awareness is crucial !
CDPR and Ubisoft be like:
"Thank you Activision Blizzard for holding my controversy bear."
Bear?