Recently, a bunch of sites began to pickup what was known around a month ago regarding Brevik opining (drunkedly) about his thoughts of Mike Morhaime stepping down as Blizzard CEO/President as well as his feeling about how Blizzard itself, would be changing. I wrote about it last month myself.
http://murasama-1820.blogspot.com/2018/10/david-brevik-opines-about-blizzard.html
I also replied in a thread on the Diablo forums pointing out the original stream and the time stamp since people were only posting a short Twitch clip which didn’t give any context nor his original disclaimer. As usual, lot of people on the official forums lack basic reading comprehension skills though (which is why I stopped actively visiting since engaging in too much D3 forum PVP is the quickest way to lose your brain cells).
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/d3/topic/20769717023?page=3#post-45
Some much more influential folks learned of this a few weeks later though and turned it into click-bait on YouTube the past two weeks. Then someone makes a post on the official forum noting the original Twitch stream a week ago (the same one I posted back on October 10th referencing the time mark) but naturally doesn’t reference my post as the one he is referring to…. he gets a highly rated mark for again, not putting the whole thing into proper context. In the meantime, other sites naturally began to pick it up this week way after the fact.
This is the problem in a nutshell. Sensationalist click-bait headlines and information taken completely out of context is what gets perpetuated. Yet how many of these folks will cover a more recent Twitch stream where Brevik discusses with his wife, the ongoing negative reaction to Diablo: Immortal; he tells people “not to be dicks” (I mean I disagreed myself with the level of tonedeafness displayed by Blizzard but I tried to articulate my reasons why as opposed to being another edgelord that jumped on the hate train). Very few (because it doesn’t fit the narrative).
