Auguste “Semmler” Massonnat has come below fireplace on social media for posting feedback that the group has known as transphobic on an ESL Influence submit.
ESL Influence, a CS2 ladies’s league, put out a submit on December 3 highlighting its greatest gamers from the Season 4 common season. Lucy ’empathy’ Verkaik, a transwoman was the highest-rated participant from the season.
Semmler, a multi-esports caster greatest recognized for his work in Counter-Strike, pounced on the submit, saying “On this case, I feel it will be greatest if we lacked empathy. Didn’t take lengthy, did it?”
Now, the esports group, different broadcast professionals, and gamers have once more known as him out for the submit.
Esports group calls Semmler ‘transphobic’
Sooner or later after this remark, one other X (previously Twitter) person commented on his unique submit with a photograph of feedback that empathy obtained on social media after Semmler’s unique submit.
Semmler doubled down on these feedback, saying “Good. The boys competing on this feminine league ought to really feel deeply ashamed for taking alternatives away from the ladies striving to compete in it. Contemplating the backlash one will get when commenting on this matter, it isn’t shocking to see no pushback from the ladies within the league.”
empathy responded to Semmler’s submit by speaking about her expertise competing as a trans individual in esports.
“I come out and everybody makes enjoyable of me each sport, my ex-teammates block me and name me slurs, I can’t play with out random individuals throwing and making enjoyable of me. I play ESL Influence and I’m the enemy and ‘I must be ashamed and kill myself’ for it. It doesn’t matter what I do the issue is I’m ugly and trans. Like genuinely what do individuals need me to do? Possibly if ‘combined groups’ wouldn’t name me a “f****t” once I ask to play with them issues can be completely different,” she stated.
Former Cloud9 White Valorant participant, and now full-time streamer, Annie ‘Annie’ Roberts additionally commented on Semmler’s submit claiming the caster doesn’t care about ladies’s leagues within the first place.
“Esport Transphobes like to parrot this concept as in the event that they ever cared about ladies’s esports. They don’t, they only hate trans individuals extra,” she stated.
Different esports casters and broadcast professionals have additionally commented on Semmler’s submit.
Jennifer ‘LemonKiwi’ Pichette, a multi-esports caster, stated she can be cleansing up her observe listing and that “Transphobia doesn’t belong in esports.”
Frankie Ward, a long-time Counter-Strike interviewer and presenter, stated in a submit that Semmler is feigning concern for the league over the mistaken points.
“Once in a while somebody who doesn’t care about ESL Influence decides to make use of feigned concern to make trans ladies really feel unwelcome fairly than truly specializing in the necessary points like regional slots and the removing of Katowice from the Influence calendar,” she stated.
This isn’t the primary time the caster has been accused of being transphobic and he has pushed ahead the concept transwomen are stealing spots in ladies’s esports leagues a couple of yr in the past.
Whereas trade professionals have known as out the caster, he nonetheless has followers who assist his place on the problem and his feedback on transwomen in ladies’s esports occasions.
The esports caster has not labored on a Counter-Strike broadcast in a while based on his Liqupedia web page with the 2021 Blast Premier Fall Finals as his final gig listed. He’s presently a member of the podcast community Final Free Nation and seems on their streams and reveals.
