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RIP reckful Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:37 No.5954

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53277733

Byron "Reckful" Bernstein was one of the esports legends, one of the greatest World of Warcraft players and streamers of all time. Struggled with depression and committed suicide.

PRESS F to pay respects

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:37 No.5955

>>5954
Can someone explain what happened i saw he proposed trough Twitter

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:37 No.5956

>>5955
yeah he killed himself, he had depression and going thru corona isolation without a GF made it worse. he was joking onstream about killing himself, then he did it (we don't know how yet)

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:38 No.5958

>>5955
Basically he publicly proposed, presumably it didn't go well, and a lot of people made fun of him for doing so. However, I think the moral guardians now going 'oh look what you did cruel internet' are off base because if you do something dumb online of course you'll get laughed at, you can't treat everyone with depression with a silk glove because like 75% of people on the internet are depressed in some way.

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:38 No.5959

>>5958
>>5956
That's pretty sad

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:39 No.5964

>>5958
shut up

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:39 No.5965

>>5959
Yeah, it is, but I am not sure that the internet really had anything to do with it. I think the thing that made him kill himself was probably between him and that girl.

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:39 No.5966

>>5965
It's probably a combination of both.
I.e. "Oh no my girlfriend rejected me forever" and "Oh no my embarassing twitter proposal with personal photos didn't work out, now the internet is gonna cancel me forever."

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:39 No.5969

>>5966
>internet is gonna cancel me forever

Please don't talk boomerish

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:39 No.5970

>>5969
Well, I'm just guessing. His entire career is depending on internet standing, and he knows what the internet crowd could do to a figure like him for such a deed, from 4chan cringe runners to angry feminists.

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:41 No.5987

>>5956
Damn I wish I had the balls to actually do it.

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:44 No.6011

>>5987
we all love you comrade

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:44 No.6015

>>5956
Oh he didn't have a GF for a little while…. how FUCKInG TRAGIC

S

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:45 No.6018

>>5958
>because like 75% of people on the internet are depressed in some way.
Nah.

t.actually diagnosed with depression

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:19 No.6296

>>6018
Me too, and so? We live in a depressed age, and it's only getting worse. The internet self-selects for depressed people.

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:19 No.6298

>>6296
No there is just a bigger spotlight on depression on the internet than IRL, not necessarily more depressed people are online than not.

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:19 No.6299

>>6296
I was recently discussing how systems western capitalist society exacerbate and pathologize mental illness. Either by creating a pathology for behavior that is threatening or ill-suited to social/state/capital norms (eg ADHD, "oppositional defiant disorder") or by creating shit life-values that make us never happy and and isolate us from our support networks. Not saying that mental illness is made up but capitalism and aspects of modern technology are explicitly making it much worse.

So ya pretty much we are all getting a lot more depressed.

My friend I was discussing with recommended this essay to me- haven't read it yet, they have a much better handle on academic writing than I do. https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/ann_cvetkovich.introduction.depression.a_public_feeling.pdf

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:20 No.6306

So who the fuck was this guy and why should I care?

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:35 No.6414

>>6306
checked

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:47 No.6483

>>6299
I agree. Maybe we should have a topic about depression on here? I dunno.

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:50 No.6509

>>6483
>>>/dead/ is literally for this shit niggas

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:53 No.6537

>>6509
I meant about tackling depression, not wallowing in it.

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:53 No.6542

>>6509
Good board

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:54 No.6550

>>6542
>>6537
>tackling depression, not wallowing in it
Kek

Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:09 No.6689

>>6015
Nigger shut the fuck up

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