One of the employees of the League of Legends operator Riot insulted the well-known, albeit controversial, streamer tyler1 this weekend.

The riot employee participated in the Discord channel of / r / leagueoflegends Riot Sanjuro in a discussion about the streamer tyler1 involved. This one has been banned for his bad behavior, but still causes controversy. tyler1 showed such toxic behavior in his stream and in League of Legends that he was banned more than 20 accounts.

Nonetheless, this doesn't allow comments like:

and:

Roughly translated:

“In all honesty, everything will be fine. He (tyler1) will soon die of a cocaine overdose or testicular cancer from all the steroids he swallows. Then everything is fine "

Such statements are of course never appropriate, especially not if you like a large company Riot represents. Especially when the company attaches great importance to friendly interaction with the players and bad behavior can lead to account loss.

The League of Legends Reddit in a furious turmoil

The waves on the social media platform Reddit, the Thread with the comments has now reached over 8600 posts.

In the meantime there was also a reaction from tyler1:

It really sucks that some people still hold a massive grudge vs old T1 and refuse to acknowledge I've changed.

- loltyler1 (@ lol_tyler1) 1st October 2017

There was the following statement from Riot:

RiotSanjuro himself has since apologized for taking a break from social media channels like Reddit or Discord.

It remains to be seen whether this will be sufficient or whether it will have further-reaching consequences for RiotSanjuro. It is not uncommon for such a faux pax, which damages the company's image, to be dismissed.