The initial thought was just a sensitive judgment of BLV Van Tung, and everything ended after he apologized to Peanut Fan but argued around Hanwha Life Esports player has never shown signs of cooling down. Even after many days of words, the incident showed more signs of more control. As recently, the fanpage of Mai Dora – wife BLV Van Tung was overwhelmed by a part of Peanut Fan in Vietnam. Or like some characters that are not related to the story are also dug the actions or statements around Peanut, as the case of Doran and Faker.
The case of BLV Van Tung and Peanut pulled to Mai Dora was also “contagious”
Since the League of Legends tournaments exploded, and the outstanding development of LCK – LPL compared to other areas, has also dragged a part of the fan with the “Đless Idol Culture” to develop strongly. In fact, the players at LCK – LPL, especially the famous superstars, always have an extremely groomed image investment. The players themselves, many people with appearance can be said to be handsome, or light lenses, such as the case of Peanut, Keria, Faker or Gumayusi, JackKeylove … Therefore, teams often build visual around these superstars. Even not just Faker but the players also have their own fanclub. Each livestream or birthday, gifts flock to these players a lot.
LCK has been promoting the turning of visual players into a form of idols
The benefits of building League of Legends players in the direction of actual entertainment idols are the right choice. In countries with powerful entertainment like China – Korea, it will be wasted if they do not take advantage of the huge fan source. Not to mention, the expansion of the files from the gamers also helps the players themselves have more large income, and spread the influence of eSports in general and League of Legends in particular. Even at LCK, players like T1 often have contacts with entertainment idols such as BTS, Newjeans … to take advantage of more fans from these groups.
Players with handsome appearance like Peanut often have their own fanclub
However, when everything becomes out of control, there will be “side effects” that come with in this case, it is “Idol culture”. Perhaps, the image of “Truck-kun” is no stranger to League of Legends fans, especially the crowded fans like T1. Worth mentioning, whenever these trucks appear, never accompanied by positive information. In the T1 team, perhaps only Faker is a fan still abstaining from sending trucks. Players like Gumayusi or Oner also have to receive extremely heavy words. Worth mentioning, this is a way to express anti or criticize more familiar capital for showbiz.
But the “idolization” player also caused the players to receive negative reactions from extremist fans, such as trucks
Or like the past few days, the incident of Peanut once again argued the “idolization” of the League of Legends players. Among the comments of a part of T1 fan, there are many ideas that it is thanks to Fangirls or in other words, “Idol culture” that players have more income and teams that can survive. That is not to mention the stories of “ship players” controversial from a fangirl part that makes the community have many negative opinions.
The opinions are somewhat misleading and not really accurate of a extreme fangirl part in the last Peanut case
But in fact, everyone understands the revenue from Donate gifts on the stream channel, or the purchase of products that are sold by sales teams (posters, corner cards, shirts, hats …), a large part of the revenue will be paid to the parties to print and produce products. The rest after those costs belong to the team and players. And the revenue from Donate must only pay the crew as well as the platform. Therefore, for the players at LCK and LPL, the number of donate gifts or the revenue from the hat is only “part” rather than “decisive”. Even many players are willing to quit the stream to rest or when they are airing and having problems.
For LCK or LPL players in particular, the donate from livestream is a very small number
Not to mention, for a part of the fans who are familiar with the culture of “Idol” culture, the controversy surrounding their idols mostly tend to Toxic. As the controversy of Peanut recently, it has led to a series of characters that are not relevant to the story, like Mai Dora, or recently SofM. Meanwhile, the “main character” of the story is Peanut, not even knowing anything in a distant country that is controversial around himself.
Peanut doesn't even know that in a remote country, there are people who are arguing for
“Idol culture” is not really bad and even more and more fans, especially Fangirls, shows that League of Legends and Esports have spread strongly. However, the fans also need to have acts of control because not only causes the community to conflict but also negatively affect the image of the players in the eyes of the audience.