Riot Games Get Into Bed With The Saudi State

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  • @Elyoslayer
    @Elyoslayer 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +149

    Expected really... they do share similar cultures when it comes to women after all.

    • @regbar0
      @regbar0 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      respec and protc waman

    • @nightfire_CSGO
      @nightfire_CSGO 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@regbar0ehh that’s asking a lot. Let’s start with not systemically oppressing them.

    • @regbar0
      @regbar0 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@nightfire_CSGOthey would argue The West does that to women.
      Women are more unhappy than in any point in history. Their educational freedom has left them with thousands of dollars into debt that will never be paid. They now spend their lives working for MegaCorp who has replaced the family.
      The West 'respects' women but has no moral qualms selling their sexuality and exploiting them to make a buck. It's empowering to sell your body, just be sure the Government gets its cut. No mental illness, no exploitation at all.
      ....What say you? I submit you do not care about women, much like Liberals and the Saudis. I bet you'd love to be over there right now giving those girls the 'Dubai porta potty'. Very respectful.

    • @Krideezy
      @Krideezy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Based as the kids say. Lol

  • @thesalmonorchestra651
    @thesalmonorchestra651 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    Jesus Christ, the fact that I learned about the Iranian Mahsa Amini protests from a youtube channel that averages less than 50k views a video is damning to the western media. Thank you so much Richard, for all the work you have done both in and outside of eSports, the world needs more people willing to speak their honest minds like you. The fact the eSports community hates you so much is a testiment to how braindead they are.

    • @epiclighthd7655
      @epiclighthd7655 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Wait, was it not a thing at your place? Here in Germany it was a huge thing.

    • @ElementalDj
      @ElementalDj 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@epiclighthd7655 I heard of it too, was touring the news and twitter at the time

    • @alessandrosina48
      @alessandrosina48 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't blame the media for your ignorance, buddy. It was widely reported on by every major news source

  • @alfred9805
    @alfred9805 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    "riot games, what is the one thing they value above everything else" I said out loud "control!" in unison with RL

  • @JonJohnsonson
    @JonJohnsonson 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Ive been watching your content for years, but never expressed my gratitude for your work. Thanks for everything you do gonzo. even if it feels like you're not appreciated in the e-sports community, your work is unbelievably important to the scene. Just wanted to say thanks ❤

  • @vpgdarkstar
    @vpgdarkstar 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    The thumbnails for these are always golden 😂

  • @ASnowDragon
    @ASnowDragon 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Slapped ESL on my blocklist thanks to your reporting. Keep up the good work homie

  • @alehzanderh
    @alehzanderh 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    This is it. The moment Rich becomes a raid boss. Riot and Saudi, together? This is IT! We love you Rich

  • @chogorik2762
    @chogorik2762 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Congrats to 120k Richard! Much love❤

  • @Palewanderer001
    @Palewanderer001 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Richard and Sideshow are both a very good presence for Esports, bringing to light how foreign interests are trying to monopolize an emerging media and exploit people through it for financial and political gain. Kudos to you 👏👏

    • @SultaN_RoyaL
      @SultaN_RoyaL 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'll miss seeing sideshow in the official valorant LANs, he's a great caster

    • @ggregg2667
      @ggregg2667 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Shout out to Jacob Wolf too for going ham on it.

    • @riivulet
      @riivulet 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@SultaN_RoyaL yep it’s gonna be super sad to see him gone but it’s inevitable

    • @NaNa_W4NT5_F3MNM5
      @NaNa_W4NT5_F3MNM5 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SultaN_RoyaL Wait, is sideshow retiring or something?

    • @SultaN_RoyaL
      @SultaN_RoyaL 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@NaNa_W4NT5_F3MNM5 nah he called out saudi sportswashing

  • @CYellowan
    @CYellowan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    "But richard, you are excerpting INFLUENCE again!" That had me laughing out loud, yeah of course standing up for what's good and right is something people have to go against, and how dare you not be neutral and letting the world go to even more shit than what it already is? jesus christ

  • @craneteam87
    @craneteam87 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    thank you for always keeping these stories alive and holding these asshats accountable

  • @Leah_Newton
    @Leah_Newton 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I thought Lewis and Thoorin already had told us sth like this was going to happen eventually like some years ago...
    No surprise here. 😂

  • @txvm
    @txvm 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent vid, thanks for all the information and insight. Thank you for putting these out. Keep up the good work, cheers.

  • @wm8401
    @wm8401 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    'Preciate you showing respect to Lord Egg. It was a huge L for us OWL degenerates when he and Bren took their talents elsewhere.
    His video was ballsy AF. Thanks as always for your work.

  • @HumerusUsername
    @HumerusUsername 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I find it funny that the same people that will criticise you for "ruining esports" are perfectly okay with the Saudi takeover. Just goes to show how a lot of people, more talking about CS as I know the personalities more, are just on the grift. This includes people that I had once respected are just completely shameless and are accepting of such a morally bankrupt country funding them as long as they benefit from it. This isn't the same esports I fell in love with in 2016. Not that the industry didn't have its faults but I have never been so pessimistic for the future of the industry then I am now. Part of me wishes the scene just died in lockdown so I don't have to see what it is becoming.

  • @Felination
    @Felination 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The most fucked up thing about the total biscuit of rejuvenation is that riot made it a Jaffa cake looking thing because they thought that was a TB thing and it wasn’t it was a yogscast thing. Still makes me feel crazy to this day

  • @gitstautusgitstutasgitstatus
    @gitstautusgitstutasgitstatus 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    An esports themed super city would be a great setting for a BioShock game.

  • @Rusty_Justice
    @Rusty_Justice 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I can't wait for the Riot cultists to tell me why they are heroes and this is a good thing.

  • @MangoMeoww
    @MangoMeoww 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Man I miss Totalbiscuit.

  • @dayne6475
    @dayne6475 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    10:00 using the core of a team for ranking is completely normal; its pretty much the standard for every ranking system rn and for the blast spots it was not a set price but a minimum and they said that teams could bid higher

  • @DeaD1te
    @DeaD1te 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    seeing falcons in kato as well as blast etc.... i facepalmed so fucking hard

  • @NaZtRdAmUs
    @NaZtRdAmUs 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The esports we all dreamed of is dead its becoming more and more closed off and they have started to circle the wagons.

  • @generalgravey
    @generalgravey 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I called this a while ago....peoples outrage is for sale

  • @reysolo3672
    @reysolo3672 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sad Day indeed. Its is not a wonderful life for Riot.

  • @TheV1RT
    @TheV1RT 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    what'd you expect? the guy is a hardcore gamer, of course, he is going to buy everything up and he is not taking a no for an answer if you know how ruthless he is. It's a Saudi take-over and there is nothing you can do about it.

  • @Oscar-pm9bx
    @Oscar-pm9bx 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    They all love the saudi money!

    • @CmoIsDaNam3i
      @CmoIsDaNam3i 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ladi dadi everybody!!

  • @bradleyfirby648
    @bradleyfirby648 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    8:15 Saudi watching this video like "so that's what it will take for him to stop...", while dusting off the old suitcase(s)

  • @raitis53
    @raitis53 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Come to Riyadh, city of the scimitar

    • @SultaN_RoyaL
      @SultaN_RoyaL 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ngl scimitars are dope ...... especially when they are used for decapitations

    • @mihirx27
      @mihirx27 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      maaate this comment just made my day holy shit

    • @itsmonsta8614
      @itsmonsta8614 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      gold

  • @Monotheist137
    @Monotheist137 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It would be funny if TSM with Doublelift and Bjergsen ressurect in this event.

  • @swiggsoclock
    @swiggsoclock 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Any recommendations of things to do in Malvern? I’ll be there in a few weeks

  • @t3cchan
    @t3cchan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This may be addressed in the video, but the title may contain a typo. ("Get" vs. "Gets")

    • @RLewisReports
      @RLewisReports  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No, it doesn't.

    • @t3cchan
      @t3cchan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RLewisReports alright, my bad then. I didn't know that "Games" being included in the company name causes it to be treated as a plural rather than a single entity.
      Thanks for reporting on all this Saudi stuff by the way. I'd love to see a vid on how they are sportswashing traditional sports like soccer

  • @t3h51d3w1nd3r
    @t3h51d3w1nd3r 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    TH-cam unsubbed me from your channel, I was wondering why I hadn't seen anything from you in my feed for awhile and I checked today......it was gone.

  • @skade245
    @skade245 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One thing people dont understand about Chinese companies is that they are legally *required* to answer to their government for arbitrary reasons which means any Chinese company that stores data on customers are essentially collecting data for the CCP. One such example is 23andme which is very concerning as the Chinese government could get access to DNA samples and develop biological weapons from it, something the PLA even published a paper about which is publically available so we know the Chinese govt is at least aware of that potential.

  • @ZhicoLoL
    @ZhicoLoL 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    posted on the league subreddit and it was removed. Yikes

  • @gizzybear6987
    @gizzybear6987 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I gave up watching esport content because of this. Now it's even more fucked.

  • @viclopez0815
    @viclopez0815 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Maybe if the League community has some balls they will try to do something about it (doubt it) we'll have to wait

  • @tenstorme426
    @tenstorme426 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wondering what the chances of TSM showing up in Riyadh are.

  • @jonbaron100
    @jonbaron100 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    bloody lovely

  • @SandwichManStudios
    @SandwichManStudios 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice video

  • @deadpixelscreative
    @deadpixelscreative 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Richard is that a Junji Ito shirt?

  • @liquiddnb1305
    @liquiddnb1305 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Which malvern Rich, USA or UK?

  • @feestinn
    @feestinn 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sideshow 💯💯💯

  • @5awiii
    @5awiii 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Its everyone's favorite zionist with a new video again.

    • @Monotheist137
      @Monotheist137 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nah he is obviously houthi/zaydi

  • @ferasabdulkareem
    @ferasabdulkareem 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    here is a challenge, show me one incident of a LGBT person who was killed in Saudi?
    ill wait ?

    • @RLewisReports
      @RLewisReports  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      TH-cam has deleted five links now so you'll have to do some Googling, which you won't. In the 2019 mass execution of 81 people 5 of those were killed for same sex activity.
      Tough challenge. You can now move the goalposts.

  • @lamaskfish
    @lamaskfish 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don't trust riot at all

  • @ghostfreak9219
    @ghostfreak9219 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    really? wow.

  • @markovukic9390
    @markovukic9390 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    " Rules , morals , principles , if we don't follow them , we sleep with the animals " Richard Winston Lewis

  • @bbboywaxr
    @bbboywaxr 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    love how mad this guy gets 😂

  • @test-wo6gr
    @test-wo6gr 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I respect and admire Richard massively and am a massive fan. However, his behavior was highly contradictory and quite frankly hipocritical. Complainig about SJWs and such, then at the same time being offended at the trihard emote in OVerwatch. Similarly, his political positions seem to wander whatever is popular and basicaly being an enlightened centrist saying both sides are bad but never commiting to a poistion himself. This is cowardly. or he will say saudi money is bad yet take american dolalrs when being on eleague. Now he is a socalled professor at university. sure good on you buddy, but dont pretend u did not take that position as soon as poeple stoped wanting to hire you. he claims he left esports. u cant leave something u were kicked out of mate.

    • @RLewisReports
      @RLewisReports  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      You appear to be having a mental health episode. Here's why I say that.
      1) I was never "offended" by the TriHard emote. No clue where you got that from. The only thing I've ever said about it was if you feel the need to spam it in chat when you see a black person on stream you're either a racist or an utter moron.
      2) I cannot think of a wandering political opinion especially one that's popular. Do provide some examples but I know you won't be able to because that's just not reality.
      3) The American government didn't run ELEAGUE. The Saudi government runs and funds the esports output that takes money from their PIF.
      4) I objectively stopped working with Saudi funded entities. I have turned down multiple offers to work events.
      5) Being a professor is a part time position and the course I run is a Sports Integrity course that covers esports as part of its content.
      6) I have never been "kicked out of esports." How would that even work you weirdo?
      Honestly, you should speak to someone. Taking the time out of your day to post total fabrications about strangers on the internet never leads to good places. Hopefully you have people in your life who can help you.

  • @burden88
    @burden88 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bizarre

  • @SoyFelipeCTM
    @SoyFelipeCTM 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Day I lost count of asking for the shroud rant reupload

    • @RLewisReports
      @RLewisReports  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why do you keep posting this? The only video I've made referencing Shroud is still on my channel.

  • @cryfest
    @cryfest 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Love Saudi, great country and people.

    • @Trashman-h3g
      @Trashman-h3g 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Habibi ❤

    • @DJ1NS4N1TY
      @DJ1NS4N1TY 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nope