Alliestrasza and Lt. Eddy Cancel Card Reveals over Blizzard Allegations and Law Suit
Content Creators Alliestrasza and Lt. Eddy, who were both scheduled to have card reveals today both decided to not do their reveals on the scheduled time due to news that broke about a law suit against ActivisionBlizzard about sexual harrassment and gender based discrimination.
Here is a link to a story on The Verge which has all the relevant information about that suit, including a statement by ActivisionBlizzard on the topic.
Below you will find the courageous video message by Alliestrasza explaining why she made her decision, as well as Lt. Eddy's tweets on the topic.
FRIDAY EDIT: Trump has announced today that he is also pulling his card reveal. Blizzard also decided to pull more reveals from their own official channels, scheduled in the next few hours. See the video in which Trump explains his reasoning below.
Hey folks, not releasing my card reveal today. https://t.co/YzFRcjwFyk pic.twitter.com/rkXEVuPM4K
— Alliestrasza (@Alliestrasza) July 22, 2021
Please note: This happens at other companies, if not most. Even your own workplace that you’re unaware of. Please stand up against this behavior if you see it.
— Lt. Eddy (@LieutenantEddy) July 22, 2021
The only thing that undermines this is that they say they won't make the reveal TODAY (based on the video and tweets in this post). It sounds like they're only halfway protesting when they can decide to just not do the reveal and force blizzard to do the reveal on their own instead.
It depends on the conditions. If they had to sign anything like a contract to get the reveal, breaking it would likely end in lawsuit.
From what we heard several times, they don't have a contract for the card reveal, blizzard just contacts them with the card saying when the reveal needs to be done.
Oh ok, I thought there would be at least an NDA preventing people from revealing stuff too early, but that can also be informal, and people just know if they f''' up they won't get any more in the future
*Rolls eyes* so brave
You can see in the comments here the kind of community Blizzard actually encourages. They have taken little to no actions to this kind of behavior on their games. That's their fault.
At least they're honest, you guys and those streamers just pat yourself on the back for your impotent online slacktivism. You'll be back playing the new expansion and they will be right back at streaming hearthstone. Or did you forget about Hong Kong? You are still here.
^ Truth
Safe to assume there won't be anymore reveals today, maybe even the rest of the month. Which is a shame because I was really hyped for these cards. On one hand, Its awful if these allegations are true. And it's spilling over onto hearthstone, which as far as I know, isn't really the problem. Hopefully this can get sorted out soon
Worst case scenario there won't be new reveals from streamers... blizzard can just reveal the cards themselves if more youtubers/streamers do the same.
Also I do feel it makes sense to affect hearthstone, the same company that goes as progressive with gender stuff can't allow sexual harassment (or be ignorant of it) just a couple of desks away. It's hypocritical at the least.
Tesdey (brazilian youtuber/streamer/caster) already said that he will reveal his card today
Understandable decision. I wouldn't like to be in their place at a time like this.
Says a person, who is only "famous" because of their looks and for years have taken advantage of the "gross-behavior-company" in order to make a living by doing the extremely "hard" "job" of streaming about a game they have zero contribution or effort towards... What ACTUAL PROOF does this lady have for these alleged accusations, and what will she do if it turns out it is not true? Or she is just another attention seeking internet slacktivist? Many brave, such activism, wow!
By no means I support derogatory behavior or harassment of any sort towards anyone, but boy, this politically correct neo-liberal-gender bullshit is getting out of hand...
You sure love throwing out buzzwords, huh?
I can see this is your passion just from all your previous posts. Don't let the people with morals take your single form of joy away dude
You don’t support derogatory behaviour but if a woman is pretty and gets in the same position of a lot of men, it must be because of her looks.
Did Eddy also get there for how he looks?
Virtue signal Andy’s. Let the courts figure out what’s going on. Canceling a card reveal and inconveniencing a whole community in protest is nonsensical.
The card will be revealed in another way, how is it nonsensical? it a little way of protest that doesn't have any real punishment for us and informs you of what happened if you wasn't aware (i.e. if it wasn't for these streamers no news post about the lawsuit was going to be found in this site, as opposed to wowhead)
"inconveniencing"? Are you that bad off that your day is thrown into disarray because you don't get a card reveal? The hell is wrong with you.
An inconvenience is just that. It does not require my entire day to be ruined. I wonder what's wrong with you that you'd be so put off by such a benign word.