One employee complained about the mistreatment of women at Riot Games. What exactly happened?
Riot is accused of sexism again. What caused a storm in the League of Legends community this time?
Scandals related to the unequal treatment of employees in the gaming industry appear regularly on the Internet. Each time such topics arouse a lot of negative emotions, because players are outraged that people working on their favorite titles often face toxic situations or humiliation due to their gender or skin color.
Riot a few such dramas on their account and each time the problem reached a really wide audience. It is hardly surprising – League of Legends is one of the most popular games nowadays, so the mishaps of the creators are publicized instantly.
What happened this time?
Does Riot treat their female employees badly?
Riot Lydia posted a post on Twitter that unleashed a storm in the comments. According to the Rioter, women working in the company are not treated as equal to men. And it was about a photo in a bathing suit.
The tweet quickly became wildly popular, with comments on both Twitter and Reddit. Many players found this behavior on the part of Riot outrageous.
Half of the skins they produce are blatantly sexualizing their own characters for profit, but their employees can’t have control over what they post online?
Some of the commenters wrote kind words to the Rioter to cheer her up, and some even advised her to change jobs and go to a company where there are not so many scandals related to unequal treatment of employees.
This is the main reason why I will never want to work in the gaming industry.
I think most companies in this industry expect you to be their public representative on your personal social media, whether or not it actually ties in with your job at all.
There were also those who approached the topic slightly skeptically. They thought that in fact, the players do not know the broader context, it is not known where the photo was published, what it looked like, and what exactly the Rioter heard.
Nevertheless, most of the community that spoke up strongly criticized Riot.
The case is relatively recent and has already garnered tens of thousands of responses. On Reddit alone, it was commented almost 900 times after just 2 hours of publication.
