The Riot Developer, who attracted attention with insults at the weekend, had to take his hat now and is no longer working for the League of Legends developer.
According to the LinkedIn profile of RiotSanjuro - Aaron Rutledge, the previous lead experience designer is no longer an employee of Riot. It is not yet known whether he himself drew the consequences from the affair or whether he was "left" by Riot.
League of Legends - Riot condemns statements made by employees
At the weekend, RiotSanjuro made extremely negative comments about the streamer tyler1 on the Discord server. Including denigrating the appearance and the comment "tyler1 will soon die of testicular cancer or an overdose of cocaine / steroids and then everything will be fine for all of us".
The resulting uproar among fans on social media platforms was of course extreme. Even if tyler1 is considered the prototype of the toxic player who ruins other League of Legends players' matches, etc., that's no reason for such insults.
RiotSanjuro has had to deal with the effects of tyler1 behavior many times over the past few years. Accordingly, one can understand one's frustration when comments like “free tyler1!” Are spammed again in the chat. But you shouldn't get rid of such frustration in public. As you can see, it can quickly cost you your job.
Riot himself quickly condemned the employee's statements and described them as inappropriate: