Not only blatantly watching the drama on the livestream, EDG Jiejie also sent the link of Faker’s drama to Scout and Meiko, surprising the community.
A few days ago, the international League of Legends community was talking about the drama Faker “criticizing Chinese gamers with low IQ”. In fact, Faker did not directly mention the Chinese player, but the fact that the Demon King criticized a low IQ gamer and asserted that it could not be Korean caused a lot of Chinese gamers to argue vehemently.
Until today, EDward Gaming’s jungler Jiejie also became the name mentioned in this incident, because he shared the link to the article (and video) about Faker’s drama right on the livestream. In that article’s link, Faker was considered “indirectly criticizing Chinese gamers for low IQ”, the two players that Jiejie sent the link to are Scout and Meiko.
As the reigning world champion, EDG as well as the players of this team have a lot of followers in the Chinese LoL community. So the fact that Jiejie shared the drama on the livestream has made many LoL fans “hot eyes”, especially the drama about a famous player and many fans like Faker.
Just a few hours later, hundreds of thousands of Chinese League of Legends players were “looking forward” to this incident. Some people criticize EDG and think that this is a great team but talk about bad things behind Faker’s back. There are also advocates who say that the EDG members are quite close and talk freely with each other, so the “share link” is simply to “look forward to the drama” like normal friends, not to judge. review Faker.
Currently, this incident has caused a lot of conflicting opinions in the Chinese League of Legends forums.
“Haha, so Faker can curse Chinese gamers but Chinese gamers can’t talk about this?”
“Didn’t Faker say it himself? Don’t you guys get annoyed when Faker said that, but are upset now that Jiejie talked about this?”
“Why don’t they send the link via WeChat?”
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