Activision Blizzard Employees Stage Walkout Same Day Troubling Cosby Suite Details Emerge | Know Your Meme

Activision Blizzard Employees Stage Walkout Same Day Troubling Cosby Suite Details Emerge

By Brandon
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• Published 3 years ago

Published 3 years ago

Due to the recent Activision-Blizzard lawsuit, which resulted in several sexual assault allegations, an employee walkout of Activision-Blizzard took place today. The walkout was decided after an open letter from the workforce with over 2,000 signatures was published that called out the upper management of the company for their alleged lack of proper response to the lawsuit and continual sexual assault culture in the company. The walkout was endorsed by thousands online, including former Blizzard president Mike Morhaime.


The virtual part of the protest consisted of requesting players not log into any game that is connected to Activision-Blizzard, as they track numbers of logged in players and would be able to see the actual impact of the community standing against them. People on social media rapidly began spreading the news of the virtual strike and sharing charity organizations that would be better to support throughout the course of the day.


The same day of the walkout, which was to galvanize the workers and internet in solidarity and action against Blizzard, there were new details to emerge about the "Cosby Suite" — a key detail that was found in the initial reports on the lawsuit. When the first reports of the lawsuit were announced, the Cosby Suite was something touched on as being the brainchild of Alex Afrasiabi, a Blizzard developer with multiple key in-game references made about him.

At the time, other ex-Blizzard employees were implicated in knowing about the Cosby Suite, which was allegedly a hotel suite booked around BlizzCon 2013 with the purpose of bringing fans back to it to get drunk and hook up, and none of them appearing to try and stop the behavior. Vocal in his decrying of sexist behavior at Blizzard, Greg Street, known as Ghostcrawler, is an executive producer at Riot Games, which had their own sexual harassment controversy back in 2018. At that time as well, Ghostcrawler was very vocal about wanting to change the industry to be more inclusive of women and less sexist.


This same Greg Street was found to be active in the Cosby Suite group chat that was leaked the day of the walkout. In the chat, it appears that the developers were planning or at least joking about predatory behavior towards women in attendance at BlizzCon. Making matters worse for Greg is that multiple tweets of his around 2013 have him directly referencing the Cosby Suite, taking control of the tradition and continuing on with it, as well as having multiple pictures of him with a large picture of Bill Cosby on his social media account.

Though the obvious connection to the Bill Cosby rape allegations is there, it is not yet confirmed if that was the reason why the suite was named so or what the true context behind it is. Before tweets and evidence of active participation were deleted, people started to screencap and spread the pictures of Greg's social media account, with accompanying hot takes provided.


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