The video is short and it is pretty much a repeat of everything Sterling said before, the words just kinda jumbled later and the only thing I've paid attention was on how much weight he lost. I know obese people can lose a ton of weight fairly easy at the start, but it is quite uncanny how fast he is going, is that healthy?
Anyway, I can slightly power level on this, as I did some freelancer work for a third party studio that worked with blizzard for animation. Obviously I won't say more, but I did visit the Blizzard campus a couple of times for meetings (that I never had to be there because it had nothing to do with what I was doing, but whatever), but this so called "fratboy culture" is just a bunch of arrested developed manchildren doing edgy jokes, a lot of them are just awkard losers that don't know how to speak.
That is why none of these accusations against activision and Blizzard are about physical and tangible abuse, but more so about "the culture" and unequal pay, which is a complicated claim because a lot of the money people in game dev make is tied to seniority bonus, hours put in and a lot of other stuff, not to mention if you are feelancing, you get what is in your Invoice and not a penny more.
Still, this is a blow on moral and is only gonna get worse, and with that there will be a push back. Remember back a few years the guys at Riot Studio were also getting the same accusation of "fratboy culture". Yeah, some of these guys made a new studio:
https://www.odysseyinteractive.gg/
And here is the kicker, looks like it is a "no girl allowed" club. I can't give a clear info on that, it is just rumor, and I don't know the people involved in that studio, just gossip now.
Still, that wouldn't be a surprise move now, people just don't want to deal with the stress that is coming from a big corp enviroment with the threat of micro aggressions and PR nightmares, and so more Devs are retreating to small studios, doing contract work and soon enough the big AAA games are just going to be assembled pices from a variety of small studios under a hollow logo like ubisoft and activison (hell, some games already are like that).
i'm aware this sound like gay accelerationist talk, but Sterling is wrong, these lawsuits and accusation won't break into a revolution, but it will only make harder for women and other "minorities" as they get gated out from smaller studios that will want to just keep a close and tied group.
Hell, in one of my last California free lance gigs I did, the guy doing the hiring point blank asked if I had a twitter or any sort of social media, I said I had a instagram, but I never posted anything (and only a few friends, my sister and Mom were following), then he asked me if I was a "talker" and I said "no" and I think that is why I got the job, because I don't think he was all that impressed with my work
