Hana's Toxic Tummy Takedown

Popularity was a double-edged sword, especially for world-renowned gamer Hana "D.Va" Song. On one hand, the cheers of an adoring public were music to her ears, in addition to all the money raised through her various gaming streams and endorsement deals. However, that fame also attracted the unwanted attention of some rather unsavory folk. These people lurked in the shadows of the internet's bleakest places, websites filled with dead memes and those who are pure evil, like 4chan and Kiwifarms. This scum of the world wide web harbored envy and scorn for any and all those more famous than successful than them, seeking only to destroy their competition in order to reach the top. And who possessed more fame and success than one of the planet's top video game celebrities, as well as a defender of South Korea?

At first, the swarm of trolls descended on her streams like a plague of locusts, possessing such eloquent monikers like 'bIG vAG mOMMA_666' and 'assburgerz with koke and a side of fries', and spouting off various obscenities in languages ranging from English to Korean to foreign tongues that D.Va didn't recognize, but still felt insulted by. They booed her taste in games, claiming that she should play more retro titles rather than focusing exclusively on the most recent releases. Her strategies for playing the games were criticized too, saying that a certain power-up was superior to the one she was already using or claiming that a shorter route to traverse through was right in front of her. Even her catchphrases were mocked by these sad sacks, sarcastically typing out "I play to win!", "GG!", "No hacks required." among other lines.

D.Va rolled her eyes at the pathetic display, opting to delete the ridiculous comments and block the accounts of the ones posting them. However, this proved a short-term solution, as a few days later, her feed was against infected by malignant tumors aiming to get a rise out of her. They engaged in the same tactics as the previous group, despite having different, yet equally creatively-bankrupt titles such as 'sUPER_dICKLICIOUS' and 'D.Va_should_stick_to_making_sushi'. That particular name left D.Va befuddled, as she wasn't sure whether to be more offended at its racism or sexism. Not that either of those things were limited to mere monikers, as the barely coherent rants geared toward D.Va and her friends and family included insults laden with xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, which would get the speakers beaten to a pulp if spoken face-to-face to D.Va or her friends and family. These comments were all filled with numerous spelling and grammatical errors, making D.Va wonder if the people typing them out got through basic schooling. D.Va was entirely convinced that the new and old scumbags were one and the same, merely altering aliases to deceive the criminally stupid.

However, the worst of the bunch was someone who went by the name of 'Porky Player'. Like D.Va, she proclaimed herself a gamer, though she never played any video game aside from dreary first-person-shooters, and even then, only sporadically. She engaged in the same activities as her cohorts, though at least with the decency to complete her nonsensical rambling instead of half-finished gibberish like the others. Adding on to that, she began the assault against the commenters on D.Va's streams with actual functioning brain cells, ripping into them for their enjoyment of D.Va's content. When the sane commenters tried defending themselves, Porky and the rest of the trolls played the victim card and claimed that the healthy commenters were "easily triggered snowflakes" who needed to "growing thicker skins" or go back to their "college safe spaces" away from the real world. D.Va scoffed at this, knowing the dangers that the real world offered through her fights with the omnics and convinced that these jerks wouldn't last five minutes in it.

Nevertheless, a flame war erupted in the chat log, insults and death threats lobbed on both sides and taking the attention away from D.Va's gameplay, which angered her even more. Eventually, the feud got so heated that she had to call off the stream, though many commenters had already left to avoid getting swallowed in the carnage, not that D.Va could blame them. The mech pilot took the next logical step and reported the aggressors, hoping that the higher ups would deal with them.