If you're a 'Pro-gamer'...

TSM Lustboy's Twit, on April Fools (his name isn't Eugene Park).

I was pretty disappointed by Lustboy's Twit, so I'm going to write few sentences down.

"Just had another bad dream about being a league pro in Korea. The dream was horrible. Hope we win today so It won't even happen."
"Yeah I mean, they were so mean to me and It was definitely worst period of my life. I'm so glad that I'm a part of NA so far."

If that 'they' is Korean fans, this will be a sentence that will cause my personal disappointment.

There are several opinions about this, but here's what I think.

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 There are so many problems in the fan-community of League (especially Korea), so a current pro-gamer trashtalking about his (previous) fans is an understandable thing?

 1. In Season 3 Worlds, Samsung White's Dade had experienced this kind of problem. He was critiqued and even insulted by his fans because of the result that he made in Worlds. I'm not saying that a pro being insulted is acceptable. The shoutcasters at the moment even officially asked the fans to restrain some excessive criticism. Though they didn't stop despite of that...

 However, Dade tried to accept those criticisms or insults and not even did a single reaction. He surmounted the negative actions of the fans only with his efforts and skill. At last he is now being praised by being the best Mid-laner in the world, and his status get much higher due to his wisdom.

 Lustboy must've reacted like that after suffering from those excessive things, but withstanding those things, in some ways, is a destiny of a professional gamers.


 2. "The problem is that e-Sports fans are young, and the subject is related to the Internet, which is making people sure that they're shown as anonymous. Also it is hard for the pros to have a mature sportmanship becuase the cycle of pro life is way shorter than other sports."

 It is pretty possible for the problem to have such side. But I saw an enormous amount of criticisms and insults being threw to other professional sports (soccer, baseball, basketball, and etc) players.

 There was one soccer player who was flamed by his fans like he's in hell. Sun-Hong Hwang, was the player who was insulted through PC communication or newspaper, at 1994, when the Internet wasn't even being used in Korea. He was even called 'the most insulted person in the history of 5000 years of Korea.' He grinded his teeth for the 98's World Cup to redeem his reputation, but he got injured right before that.

 Despite of all that, he finally demonstrated his skill in 2002 World Cup with a fancy first goal in the first preliminary game and continued his fame to his manager career. He is now called 'the regent Hwangsun' (this is the term that is related to Korean history), and being loved by his fans.


 3. So the ultimate factor of the problem is Korean people's national character, or the fan culture?

 There are countries that assassinated the player who missed the penalty in the World Cup. There are some players in other countries who commit suicide due to an extremity of the pressure that his fans make. It is somehow natural that most of the fans are having a quick alternation of joy and sorrow, and this is not only a problem of Korea.

 There is a slight difference with the degree, but fans of NA and EU do the same thing. I think it is a right of the fans in the first place, that 'criticize' professional players. (But profanities and an excessive blames should be sublated.)


 4. What is the best reaction of those pros?

 In the first place, I don't think that fans having an emotion or criticizing their players are not the wrong thing. Fans are originally like that. If one's analyzing a sports with a mature insight, he's an analysist. Most of the fans have their own emotion to their interest and don't make a judgement with a rational eyesight, so they support certain player or a team and have an emotional, economical, and timely expenses even though it is not that of a benefit to them.

 I sometimes think that fans (including me) are close to 'idiots,' but it is a discourtesy when telling an idiot an idiot in idiot's face.

 Professional sports exist as fans exist. So those remarks of Lustboy could've been better to not be spoken. But those apologies such as CJ Shy's was quite a bit. He should've not apologized in the first place, because his team (not even himself) simply just missed the chance to get to the second place.

CJ Entus Shy's apologies on missing a chance to get his team to the 2nd place of LCK Winter.
Like, what the hell is this for? You weren't even bad!

 If, Lustboy Twitted that with a mindset of something like 'IDGAF to Korean fans from now because I'll be continuing my career in NA,' then that itself will be another sad thing. There must've been fans who supported him when he played in CJ Blaze and even now when he's playing in TSM. (I personally am a huge TSM fan, even though I'm a natural born Korean.)

 Actions like CloudTemplar took, asking fans to refrain an excessive actions against pros after his retirement, is indeed acceptable. But most of Korean fans might not take Lustboy's action like that.

 It would be important for the fans to improve and self-clear their community to help e-Sports pro-gamers who are mostly young, to not be mentally tired. Also pro-gamers should not have an interest with those extremities, and prove themselves with their own efforts.