Recently, VTV24's official fanpage apologized for using a sensitive image of a famous Korean gamer in a program.
Accordingly, in the livestream with the theme “Behind the success of professional gamers”, the VTV24 crew used the image of a gamer (League of Legends game) hitting his head against the wall after losing a match. Many fans of the male gamer “attacked” the fanpage after this image was “aired” because they thought this was a painful story and did not want to repeat it.
In response to these comments, the VTV24 fanpage apologized for the program crew's insensitivity, and offered a solution to delete that image, but still retain the entire team's journey to become professional gamers.
Specifically, the full text of the apology posted publicly is as follows:
“The live session at 8:00 p.m. on November 5, 2024 with the topic “BEHIND THE SUCCESS OF PROFESSIONAL GAMES” has content about the increasingly professional development of gaming communities in Vietnam with many achievements. at prestigious international tournaments.
At the same time, the team also wants the mass audience to better understand the difficulties and enormous pressure that affects both physical and mental health that professional gamers have to face to reach their goals. the pinnacle of glory in his career.
In this content, the crew mentioned the image of a famous gamer whose actions many fans do not want to repeat (only using blurred photos, no clips). Even though I just want the community to understand better and share with the pressures of being a professional gamer, repeating this story has unintentionally evoked unnecessary negative emotions from the gaming community.
The team would like to sincerely apologize for being insensitive when using this detail. We removed that image, and kept the rest of the program sharing content about the journey of becoming a professional gamer.
Once again, I apologize and thank you, viewers!”.
VTV24's crew apologizes for using sensitive images in a program (Screenshot).
A scene from the live “Behind the success of professional gamers” (Screenshot).
Despite apologizing, below the post about the program on VTV24, the audience still dropped the “angry” icon.
It is known that the live session's main content is about the increasingly professional development of gaming communities in Vietnam with many impressive achievements at international tournaments. The hosts hosting the program are editor Son Lam, Thuy Van… and 2 guests who are famous Vietnamese gamers, including: Le Ha Anh Tuan (born 2008) and Do Trung Thanh (nickname: Thanh Mu , Born 1993).
