Gamer Chair apologizes for bad tweets and promises to do better

Vertagear, a “leading gaming chair brand trusted by many esports teams,” is now being criticized by everyone for trying to turn a sexist joke into a forward-thinking meme.

Last Sunday evening, the chair company released a side-by-side comparison mockup male streamers vs. female streamers. In the guy’s diet it is barely visible, while in the woman’s diet the ratios are reversed. ” Is it correct ? Vertagear tweeted with three emoji crying and laughing for good measure.

By the time most people saw it, however, the tweet was already not loading. “You deleted it, but you can’t pretend it wasn’t tweeted Vertagear”, wrote Facebook streamer MissHenley. “You owe the women in the industry a big apology.”

This morning, the chair company tried to pay off that debt with one of the longest app apologies I’ve come across in recent memory. “Discrimination and prejudice are the opposite of what we want to create, and they completely jeopardize the values ​​we stand for” he read in part. “Unfortunately, it took a long time to see the mistakes made and hurt many people with a recent Tweet we made. We take full responsibility for the pain it has caused to members of our community. make it right and we’ll set a better example for others. ”

Vertagear went on to write that he has put new measures in place and created a “more defined guideline” to try to keep himself from pedaling misogyny in the future.

But as a Twitch Low partnercoTV underlined it, it was far from being a unique agreement for the gamer brand. Screenshots of four stepst tweets, including three from 2021, showed Vertagear indulging in other toxic stereotypes, apparently in a play to look cool to the type of people who regularly make Twitch chats a cesspool.

In the meantime, some people are asking game influencers not to display any Vertagear chairs in their feeds and esports events not to use its chairs as prizes at events. And for all other brands of budding gamers, a simple reminder: you don’t have to tweet sexist shit, or not at all for that matter.