@@PinkiePie45838283734666o9So he can only do one thing if he is mayor? Only do the things that you want him to do? Spend all of his time feeding all of the homeless in a town of 800 people. Genius.
Exactly. I learned long ago the only way to get justice for shitty behaviour/service by a customer is to call them out on social media while tagging them, as it guarantees tens or even hundreds of thousands of people will get to see it. And that's the kind of bad publicity no company wants.
They don’t care if one person stops using Microsoft because it doesn’t affect them but if a huge amount of people stop using Microsoft then it’s a problem for them.
More like support doesn't communicate with the people who could fix this issue. Support just knows that they can't fix it, and dismiss his issue. Is it still Microsoft's fault? Absolutely. Did they purposely wait until they received media attention to make the change? Unlikely. This is just the result of offloading support onto third party teams with almost no communication.
This is an increasingly common phenomenon where when someone is shown that they are wrong, or incorrect, instead of taking simple measures to correct the issue, continue to double-down on being wrong.
Microsoft didn't "admit their error". They pushed and pushed until someone pushed back harder, at which point they filled their underwear and went home.
@@Sailorbyday how am i ignorant by pointing out they had the ability to search up a town that actually exists? But no they doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on being lazy. But its okay you can make excuses for an organization like they need your peasant help
@@RMCbreezy Well the online gamer wanted to make sure that they knew he wasn't lying. To prove how full of shit they are. But it's ok if you wanna make dumb comments before doing research. No worries
Many people have forgotten the original meaning of "gay" was cheerful, bright, or carefree. When that town was founded, it was likely when that word meant exactly that.
Exactly. So many people making fun of the old war song "When Johnny comes marching home" due to one verse being "We'll all feel g*y" (sorry, I don't want to risk anything in these crazy ultra-correct times).
@@TheGreenReaper Nope the name is fine, it's just a word that used to mean happy or jolly and now has changed meaning the town's name is fine in context and should not be changed.
Gay was an euphemism to begin with. That’s why we have lyrics like “blossoms gay” , “yaba daba gay old time” “yuletide be gay” etc , in children and Christmas songs.
I’d agree except that I saw a video earlier about someone talking about people being upset on others’ behalf and lying about the other person being upset. Like, come on, kid give a doll to their friend, along with toy cars and both enjoyed the joke while adults decide to butt in and be against a boy getting a doll. On a lighter note, the gayest thing I’ve seen all day is a demonstration in chemistry class with how light moves differently through different materials and it was done with rainbow glasses, as well as shooting electricity through tubes of specific gases (Oxygen, if I recall correctly, is trans colors, almost even the actual order of the flag and I loved it)
@@zoyadulzura7490 just curious why homophobic is the word used. doesnt phobic mean "fear of" because thinking its innappropriate or wrong doesnt sound like they are afraid of it.
Yes, I'm also glad he didn't give in to homophobic bullying by a multinational mega IT company masquerading as a giggling gaggle of homophobic schoolboys.
not to disparage him or anything but he was heavily incentivized to do that since if the policy spread to other companies his town would lose a lot of potential trade since Bing would remove the town from the maps and google search might do that same if they saw how bing had less issues due to removing the word
I mean that town was literally just 800 people in cities that many people live just in one block or area but yeah props to him for taking out his time other would have called this 'childish'
That's where you go on and claim for emotional damage and future damages caused. They literally discriminated against him and violated is constitutional rights.
And it's nothing but bot responses or some overworked CS worker living in a 3rd world country who just copy-pastes a script. Nobody actually looks and reads your case.
THIS! Exactly! And Facebook and UA-cam, too. All of these greedy, self-serving tech giants...very quick to accuse and delete, but nonexistent customer service and no way to get in touch with a human being to rectify a problem. 😡 They shouldn't be allowed to do business like this.
To the people who don't know, saying someone is gay used to mean they're a happy/cheerful person. It had nothing to do with sexual orientation. You can hear it in some old songs, too.
This is the problem with companies these days. They screw up, blame the consumer, refuse to investigate issues with people instead of algorithms, cost consumers time and money, then when they caught red handed, they offer an apology and nothing more. That kid deserves a free subscription from Microsoft for life.
@@Freedommanbutthesecond2You realize that means doing more than just not buying the latest XBox game, right? That means not buying the next XBox console. It means switching to a different OS if you use Windows instead of upgrading to the next Windows version. It means boycotting everything to do with Microsoft.
When moral busy-body activists start filling in managerial positions in a company, they’re going to project with reckless abandon. “It’s other people and random bystanders who are spiteful, not me” is what they tell themselves. The tactic of establishing a standard of phraseology that constantly gets changed and updated without any consistency in logic isn’t merely stupidity. It partially is stupid, but it’s still done deliberately. It’s to establish an inside-versus-outside group dynamic to serve as a routine method for wielding power over people. Nothing more than an exercise in psychopathy.
exactly. and its extra frustrating bc when shit like this is done, they often seem to think theyre stopping homophobia by being homophobic. it's insane.
@@cubonefan3No, it's because Microsoft banned any references to orientation in tags in profiles, hence why people with "lesbian" anywhere were also banned. A "majority of people" did not use it that way, the only people using or recognizing it exclusively an insult or synonym for something lame completely disconnected to the common meaning (orientation) were young children.
Microsoft uses an internal black list of words that is considered globally offensive. That does not get changed just because a certain someone has a legitimate reason behind, it's a hardwired file that just filters out anything that's on the blacklist. To make "exceptions" means they have to make changes to that system.
@@DdakjiRecruiter in many game chats the censorship is so horrible, in a game where breeding is half the game you can't say egg or birth, half of the creatures names, half of the bosses names, etc.
He should sue for that. He not only lost $300 but also lost whatever money he would've gotten from the tournament, and he'd probably get more money from the lawsuit.
@@brianfitch5469 lawyers usually take cases like this on contingency. where they only profit if they win. it costs the plaintiff nothing unless they win.
He has no right to sue, he should have read the terms and conditions, he used an offensive term as his location, regardless if he was telling the truth or not. It's still a highly offensive word that refers to pedophiles. He forfeited all and any time,money or possible advances due to that foul language. Microsoft retains to seize any and all property and funds on any account using their services, if it's on any intellectual property owned by Microsoft,then it is property of microsoft. The kid owes Microsoft an apology for bothering them with this bullshit. Getting the mayor involved was just childish and immature, Maybe change the name of your town instead of harassing a corporation that's just trying to make money. Like seriously this kid really slandered Microsoft over what he obviously violated , it's not Microsoft's fault ,this whole situation is gay
The word gay literally means happy in old English, obviously that's why the town was originally named "fort gay" as it had happened before we affiliated the word gay with males being attracted to other males
If you want to take the many meanings gay does mean happy, carefree, etc. And it was also applied to pros**tutes by proxy of man happy & carefree (aka sex without obligations).
@@Rimziie Oh, apologies; I’ll elaborate. I’m referring to when people started thinking that being homosexual was a “thing” and that you were “born” to like a certain gender. I hope this helped, and I hope they can get help
@@justinfarr1869 Saying the word gay is inappropriate is insinuating that BEING gay is also. One could make the argument that microsoft is being homophobic.
@@justinfarr1869 it's to some extent homophobic. If argued well, you can win the case over "banning the world gay is detrimental to gay people and causes distress to those who are banned for just stating who they are, implicitly banned for being gay, which is discrimination, if not hate crime" or something like that.
It's both funny and sad how so many people in the comments are mad at gay people for using the word "gay" instead of being rightfully mad at Microsoft for letting this whole thing happen
Nah. Josh should've sued Microsoft. This is a HUGE oversight since there are town/city names that have the same spellings as curse words or sexual words in the world.
yup, it’s a classic problem in computer science called “The Scunthorpe Problem” for a town in the UK which had similar problems in the early days of the internet. Language is too nuanced for any simple filter to catch everything without a LOT of false positives. The proper way to address this is to have responsive human moderators who make exceptions when they get complaints about the automated system messing up, but clearly whoever was handling them that day was a narcissist and utterly unwilling to admit their system or a human moderator had made a mistake.
Stellaris (a space strategy game) in console edition has such a hyperactive content filter that Uranus, the planet name, gets censored into Ur**** if the player tries to use the game's suggested name for stations built over the planet
@@matthewl419i think that probably a thing with consoles, and there stores, as they probably force something like that to be listed there. but idk why an mostly single player game needs something like that
My family has this "tradition" of having first born females have "gay" in our names. Though... The first ones had it spelled "Gay". Us in the next generations got the varied spelling. Mine is Gae, a cousin had it Gaye, and another is Gei. The naming was supposed to wish a happy life, or personality, to the person. (Maybe because being eldest is not such a happy thing LOL but yeah. 😅😂)
"Apologized," not, "sued as a defendant for tortious interference lawsuit and fined a sum of money handsome enough for them to reconsider their community guidelines policies."
Just an apology for inconveniencing the man for months and de facto disqualifying him from tournament participation inconveniencing his team and basically telling anyone in that town not to buy an xbox. The more you think about it, the more woefully underwhelming this apology gets and they had to drag them kicking and screaming to get it.
Note to self: if anything like this ever happens, go straight to the media. Companies care more about their image than integrity Edit: …was not expecting 3 thousand likes on this, but here I am. Hello to you reading this, hope you’re having a nice day
There's a reason I just drop 1 star reviews on ppl who eff with me, you don't get a chance to explain yourself because you would never give me that chance
isn't it nice when, because of a huge company, you waste your time time, get called a liar, lose money, can't attend an important event and then all you get is a "lol sorry"?
Well, to be fair, the guy is called Josh Moore (the name of a homo actor) and he lives in Fort G@Y. It is too suspicius, everyone would think that is a prank.
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MICROSOFT OFFICALLY HAD NO LEGAL RIGHTS TO BAN HIS ACCOUNT. AND MICROSOFT OFFICALLY HAD NO LEGAL RIGHTS TO REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THE MAN WAS FROM FORT GAY.
@@rayganparksmitchellDo you know what legal means? Microsoft owns the servers that manage to account. At first, as far as they were concerned, he had violated their rules. They should've done the due diligence of looking it up or asking first, but banning him is something they can do in response to rule breaks. Depending on if the TOS says they reserve the right to ban for any reason regardless of it breaking any rules, they may have the right even if they're morally wrong. And you can't not have the right to believe something. You're trying to create thought crimes here.
This is the ONE TIME MS apologized. Hundreds of thousands of OTHER times MS has done similar thing to people who've had NO RECOURSE AT ALL. This is why ethical people abandon ALL MS products and use alternatives, like Linux and open source stuff. If you use MS, products, YOU ARE PART OF THE CORRUPTION.
at least my old name got banned for good reason it was gamer tag yourrrnutttsac after they made me change it like 10 times years ago from it being yournuttsac lol
There are no monetary damages Or should I say what are the monetary damages? And you can't say lost winnings because you can't necessarily prove you would win
@@Michael-sb8jf Not true. If he missed a tournament and usually placed, that is a big deal. You are not a lawyer. Maybe stick to the easy ones dum dum.
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Josh deserved to play in that COD tournament, Microsoft needs to give this man some compensation
Oh come on this is so tame compared to the issues we actually have going on. Will you please pull your head entirely out of your ass and look around you for 5 minutes?
That's what people wanted right to get rid of "hate speech." What the average person fails to understand is that there is no such thing as "hate speech." There is only speech that you hate.
Right like what if someone just said "sorry, Im not interested Im gay" ? Its not a negative word it just is what it is. MS really showing their whole ass here
I mean, to be fair, no one uses it in the “happy” context anymore. And there are kids on the platform (ideally not COD but other Xbox games). So it makes sense that as an actual WORD it would be deemed “inappropriate”. But obviously they should have fixed it immediately when they found out it was a real town.
ooops there go the Gay Gordons and words of the Christmas song "Don we now our Gay apparel" or my friends back in the 60's name Gay. It was a girls name... Shame..
@@jackpokrywka542 But what if you are gay and you're proud of being gay. Why is it inappropriate to acknowledge it "in any context." Would Microsoft really publicly state that "If you are Gay, you can't ever acknowledge it on our platform" ?
This is why you must realize if someone says they're from a town with an unusual name that sounds inappropriate, don't judge them because that place may be actually real.
We all phones... If not that then you do have some way to look up something on the Internet and just look up if a place exists or not... The excuse of "I didn't know that" doesn't really work in some instances considering we can look up anything nowadays..
I pity anyone playing who is from the city of *Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch* in England. ....Yes, that's actually the name of the city, not a joke. :P
@@gamester512 As bad as being from Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in Webster, Massachusetts. Also not a joke! The name comes from the Nipmuc language and means "fishing place at the boundaries".
@@Martinit0 They did their job, they kept Josh from using gay on his account. The rules they have to follow likely don't account for exceptions. They probably thought nothing more would come of it.
Yeah, have the last name Cummings! Several things, such as work email addresses, get flagged as inappropriate and I have to send microsoft a copy of my passport to prove it. This issue affected my kids when they were teenagers, because nearly any variation of their name on a gaming system was bounced back because of the perception of 'bad' words. Still pisses me off. 'Bad words' aren't shit or hell. Bad language is name-calling, stereotyping, bullying, narcissistic language used in attempts to control others.
Could legally change your last name to something similar sounding? Or with one of those funny letters? 'Cūmmings' would maybe help in this situation, as a lot of bots that read 'bad' words ignore letters with accents. Changing your last name may feel like tarnishing your legacy or disrespecting your family, I get it, but I think it'd be a cool/funny story to tell, plus, it would more or less be the same but with an accent. Idk where you live, but changing surnames where I live is pretty affordable. I don't think it's more than about ~£40 where I live; small price to pay to avoid all that hassle.
Even if it didn’t, it’s not that even big of a deal. Ok your gay, im gay whatever, its just a sexuality. Nobody’s gonna be mad at you for saying “straight” but gay is a problem??
“Microsoft said that the word ‘gay’ is inappropriate in any context” - Firstly, does that mean that they find coming out (“Mom, Dad, I’m gay” or idk what you would say) and for example the word LGBTQ offensive too? - Secondly, the original meaning of “gay” means “happy”……. - And how tf are you blocking everyone from an entire word that isn’t meant as a cuss word originally? Main character energy right here
I guess The Flinstones are offensive too...remembering my childhood and the opening song singing _"we'll have a gay old time."_ Good grief, what's next?
One of my siblings is g*y... they wake up every morning and cry because they have to live with the label... when they see the letter "G" they have a meltdown... It's heartbreaking to see. That word is true offensive evil... (obviously joking btw)
Meanwhile in Ireland there are people called Gay, or Gaye which is pronounced the same. The host of our biggest talk show was called Gay Byrne. Microsoft needs to chill, because the word in itself is not offensive and context is key.
Gay doesnt just mean that guys it also means Happy believe it or not😐. So yeah basically Microsoft and this comment creator need to check the dictionary
WORDS mean NOTHING, only actions. Microsoft should 10x compensate of the damages they caused: 300 dollars will become 3000 and whatever the COD jackpot was that 2 has to be multiplied by 10
oh come on, they didn't take 300 dollars from him just because, those were all for services he purchased, and there's no way to know his team would have won. Microsoft needs to sit the fuck down yes, but this participation trophy mindset needs to stop, you sound like a spoiled brat
I mean, they can't really give them the official win because we don't know if they'd have won with Josh there or not, but they should be awarded whatever the first place prize was as compensation for the error. Whether it was in game items or cash prize, their opportunity to get those things was taken so that's the only fair way to rectify it.
@@scooterdooter it has literally nothing to do with republican lawmakers... this was about microsoft having an anti insult/swear policy for usernames/locations and being unwilling to accept the fact that when someone proves them wrong, that they are actually wrong.
they werent just trying to resolve a simple game name issue, they were trying to put respect in their town's name. Its a real place, with real people, and i would assume some historic value that means a lot to residents
In those circumstances and given the team's loss on top of all that an apology is not enough. Microsoft should be penalised. An enforced donation of $20 million to the town of Fort Gay might be appropriate.
“I lost 10000 hours, hundreds of achievements, and was discriminated against based on a protected characteristic by a billion dollar company.. I’ll take that retirement check daddy Gates.”
Wasn't the word once used to describe happy people? Or simply happy time? I mean, it's in the Flinstone intro and i'm sure the word there doesn't describe people
@@Anthyrion it's also in a few older Christmas songs 🤷🏻♀️ queer used to mean strange/peculiar at some point, is it also banned by Microsoft even if used in that context?
Maybe if the ban affected the player from being able to participate in the top 8 of a Capcom Cup tournament, but for a causal COD tourney is kinda crazy. Maybe just a couple years of free membership would cover it tbh
That's a bit overboard, but I'd settle for $10K if Microsoft promised to fix their algorithm-based program to not blindly assume a word is automatically bad
Nobody could possibly know every city, county, lake, river, desert, etc., in the US. The issue is their unwillingness to check it out when he provided the ZIP code.
@@TheRealScooterGuythat the point, a tech company refuse to use their tech to check that was legit or not. Like how they refuse to use translator when they ban someone for using another language in Asia server.
My school ended up having a huge issue with some learning software that let kids play educational games (it wasn’t an online thing it was something the school had purchased a license for and it was hosted on the school computers) Because it started automatically banning everyone who said they lived in Cumming, Georgia The school was literally *in* Cumming, Georgia The mass ban did something to the computers that basically made it impossible to use them And the software company was like “oh your students are horrible for pranking us, a poor little company!”
@@aiiiia9971the software probably did it automatically when detecting disallowed words, and welcome to why I hate censorship it was literally because I was forever running into crap like this over mundane things, fun fact my grandfather's birth name nearly got me banned from a forum for including cock (his name was Cocque said as Cocky which at the time I had reason to think that was how it'd been spelt only been a few years since I found actual info there), like come on cocky isn't even a bad word by any definition so why does anyon think this inflexible automated crap is an advantage over having staff consider context?
I'm honestly baffled that they didn't even go to google maps for like 30 seconds and confirm if its true, I guess I'm overestimating simple things from big companies now :/
Never overestimated company skills, besides the willingness to sue :D Just because a company is good in one particular thing (e.g. making Operating systems) it does not mean anything else. and i mean anything. They can be good or bad at everything else. just like a rich person can be a lovely Character or a brat
i think its matter of AI or automated system dealing with user feedback, with its over 90% innacuraccy on average, its basically matter of AI not being able to understand what kind of request it is and sends automated response that is universal and not related to issue from the user
Its because of their left wing agenda that removes logic from decisions. Where they state using the word gay is not acceptable under any circumstances so here are some facts: Globally, approximately 88,569 people bear the *surname* "Gay" The name is most common in the United States, where it is borne by 42,244 people, or 1 in 8,580 Americans.
There is also Fugging, Austria if you ever travel to Europe. They actually changed their name 4 years ago in part because people kept stealing the sign and the general mockery.
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That mayor is literally a “Man of the People.” He stood up for his citizen. Props to him for doing so and Josh for not backing down.
I disagree. He should feed the homeless, not help some gamer guy.
its good to represent all citizens in your town equally, not just help the poor
Who's to say he doesn't?
When the town has 800 people in it surely, it's easier to dedicate time to things like this as a Mayor.
@@PinkiePie45838283734666o9So he can only do one thing if he is mayor? Only do the things that you want him to do?
Spend all of his time feeding all of the homeless in a town of 800 people. Genius.
Look at Microsoft's reaction. They only apologized after word went out to the news. They're not sorry. They're sorry they got caught.
Exactly. I learned long ago the only way to get justice for shitty behaviour/service by a customer is to call them out on social media while tagging them, as it guarantees tens or even hundreds of thousands of people will get to see it. And that's the kind of bad publicity no company wants.
Nah, they're not sorry they were caught. They're only sorry the world got to hear how petty they are.
They don’t care if one person stops using Microsoft because it doesn’t affect them but if a huge amount of people stop using Microsoft then it’s a problem for them.
No refund either 😢
More like support doesn't communicate with the people who could fix this issue. Support just knows that they can't fix it, and dismiss his issue. Is it still Microsoft's fault? Absolutely. Did they purposely wait until they received media attention to make the change? Unlikely. This is just the result of offloading support onto third party teams with almost no communication.
This is an increasingly common phenomenon where when someone is shown that they are wrong, or incorrect, instead of taking simple measures to correct the issue, continue to double-down on being wrong.
The word you're looking for is intransigence. And yes, 100%
@@connorgaskill7653 I hate intransigence so much, and its always "You just have to be right dont you" so closed minded
It's perhaps common, but what's the evidence that it was less common in the past? (Ie that it's increasingly common.)
People's common shared experiences.
Sounds very much like a certain orange prez😢
Microsoft didn't "admit their error". They pushed and pushed until someone pushed back harder, at which point they filled their underwear and went home.
No they admitted they fucked up
@@Sailorbydaythey LITERALLY made Maps my guy. Tell us youre a social justice warrior more please
@@RMCbreezy Tell us how ignorant you are. Please
@@Sailorbyday how am i ignorant by pointing out they had the ability to search up a town that actually exists? But no they doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on being lazy. But its okay you can make excuses for an organization like they need your peasant help
@@RMCbreezy Well the online gamer wanted to make sure that they knew he wasn't lying. To prove how full of shit they are. But it's ok if you wanna make dumb comments before doing research. No worries
Many people have forgotten the original meaning of "gay" was cheerful, bright, or carefree. When that town was founded, it was likely when that word meant exactly that.
Ima be honest I never knew about that to begin with
Exactly. So many people making fun of the old war song "When Johnny comes marching home" due to one verse being "We'll all feel g*y" (sorry, I don't want to risk anything in these crazy ultra-correct times).
Also lots of christmas songs.
i dont think it ever meant "carefree" as you would see sentances like "gay and carefree"
Fort Gay!It sure as hell did not seem to make Microsoft bright,happy or carefree.lol 😆
real shout out goes to the Mayor for actually taking time to address this. shows that mayor cares about all his people
😂😂😂 I get the reference
Me not
What else is there to do in Fort Gay lol
@@Derekzparty common Gay things
@@Derekzpartylol exactly
Imagine being so offended by a word that you can't believe it's a real place
It's a place which has an inappropriate name and should change it.
@@TheGreenReaperHomophobe.
@@TheGreenReaper Nope the name is fine, it's just a word that used to mean happy or jolly and now has changed meaning the town's name is fine in context and should not be changed.
@@TheGreenReaper Look up the original meaning of the word, and educate yourself. The only inappropriate one is you.
Gay was an euphemism to begin with.
That’s why we have lyrics like “blossoms gay” , “yaba daba gay old time” “yuletide be gay” etc , in children and Christmas songs.
Telling someone that the word "gay" is offensive has got to be the stupidest thing I've heard today
Would you say it's the gayest thing you've heard all day😊
@@justcody4615no because the situation does not match any definition of the word "gay"
@@Trixie_Lavenderyour statement was gay af
I’d agree except that I saw a video earlier about someone talking about people being upset on others’ behalf and lying about the other person being upset. Like, come on, kid give a doll to their friend, along with toy cars and both enjoyed the joke while adults decide to butt in and be against a boy getting a doll.
On a lighter note, the gayest thing I’ve seen all day is a demonstration in chemistry class with how light moves differently through different materials and it was done with rainbow glasses, as well as shooting electricity through tubes of specific gases (Oxygen, if I recall correctly, is trans colors, almost even the actual order of the flag and I loved it)
@@Dragoniccat Congratulations, we did it. Physical reality is now gay. 😂😂😂
"the word gay is innappropriate in any context" THATS INSANE
Yup. And homophobic. Great example of how not to protect people from bullying/obscenities/whatever the heck they were doing.
@@zoyadulzura7490 just curious why homophobic is the word used. doesnt phobic mean "fear of" because thinking its innappropriate or wrong doesnt sound like they are afraid of it.
@@imamoocow4being homophobic doesn't mean you are afraid of gay people, it means that your behavior is in some ways against them
@@imamoocow4 yes, just like hydrophobia, where the material is actually afraid of water. Very good point.
@@Patatigatti123 ok i get thats how its used but doesnt phobic/phobia mean "irrational fear of" i dont get it
That mayor is real af, props to him for standing up for his town. 👏
Yes, I'm also glad he didn't give in to homophobic bullying by a multinational mega IT company masquerading as a giggling gaggle of homophobic schoolboys.
not to disparage him or anything but he was heavily incentivized to do that since if the policy spread to other companies his town would lose a lot of potential trade since Bing would remove the town from the maps and google search might do that same if they saw how bing had less issues due to removing the word
I'm just amazed they resisted the urge to paint rainbows over everything and have a major event every year.
I mean that town was literally just 800 people in cities that many people live just in one block or area but yeah props to him for taking out his time other would have called this 'childish'
I think it's pretty progressive that the gays have their own Fort.
as soon as companies get called out online, they start shitting their pants and apologise
They should sue them for 10k
@@XavierEwing-mw3qp Unfortunately, the legal costs to sue and win would be way more than the 10K prize.
@@chillbro2275most lawyers will work pro bono and take a percentage so naw
@chillbro2275 true. You gotta go for the billion from the get go
That's where you go on and claim for emotional damage and future damages caused. They literally discriminated against him and violated is constitutional rights.
Microsoft being homophobic by claiming the word "gay" is offensive.
my thoughts exactly lmao
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Wild toaster spotted
Ironic how these woke morons are actually the most offensive, rude and prejudiced a-holes.
@@LevitheEldritchAbomination blehhhhh :3
So what shuld gay men say instead when talking about what they like? Microsoft is far from perfect but come on, this is just dumb on their part.
bro got falsely accused, basically robbed him of 300$ and made him miss an entire tornament. And all bro gets is an apology
Eventually 🙄
I would would look for anyway to sue
@@godofdeath6455g*y is a bad word tho
@@1saamor897That’s not what you said last night when I spread those cheeks, lil bro.
Not really. Original meaning was "happy". @1saamor897
The kid deserves more than just an apology
Loss of earnings, for the whole team, pain and suffering.
Make it 7 figures for josh and 6 for the team
@@quiggleberthow much money do people get in those? I do agree though that he should get a lot of money though because that’s a big thing to get into.
@@jakeg3126 punitive damages
He should totally sue
A PS5
This is basically Microsoft, they report the situation instantly, but it takes them forever to reply and undo the problem.
And it's nothing but bot responses or some overworked CS worker living in a 3rd world country who just copy-pastes a script. Nobody actually looks and reads your case.
@@WildVee This is why we need smaller companies that can handle smaller volumes instead of a few big guys trying to handle the entire world.
THIS! Exactly! And Facebook and UA-cam, too. All of these greedy, self-serving tech giants...very quick to accuse and delete, but nonexistent customer service and no way to get in touch with a human being to rectify a problem. 😡
They shouldn't be allowed to do business like this.
Same for Scratch, the ST is DUMB
That sounds like Roblox
The fact that it took them being blasted on the news to change their decision speaks volumes about Microsoft.
Imagine being incapable of... Googling a city...
People responsible for this should get fired and pay for the boy the lost money and moral damage
They tried binging it but just found a bunch of porn
@onman14 bing is the shallowest deepweb lol
Probably some blue haired DEI hire in charge of the Microsoft Diversity Justice Department.
Imagine being so beholden to your demagoguery that you cannot rationally address an issue.
@@jjc4577wtf are you even trying to say?
"Gay is inappropiate in any context" Bruh, Microsoft is straight up denying the dictionary 💀
And thousands of years of prior use claims.
Bad happy 😢❤
Board game . Net😊
I guess you could say microsoft was STRAIGHT up haha
Microsoft is homophobic frfr
If gay means happy, then I get Josh felt pretty straight about this event.
😂
Thank you, that gave me a giggle 😂
To the people who don't know, saying someone is gay used to mean they're a happy/cheerful person. It had nothing to do with sexual orientation. You can hear it in some old songs, too.
@@Uthael_Kileanea Can probably still hear it in old shows. Like some that might still be black and white.
I don't know why a sexuality would be inappropriate
Imagine someone saying that "straight" is an offensive word; in any context nonetheless... 😂
Legend has it that US Olympic diver Mitch Gaylord has been on hold with Microsoft support for 34 years.
If racecar driver, Dick Trickle was still around, he would _never_ be able to get a Microsoft account!
@@sp1704 their name is actually Dick Trickle, can confirm. he used to race in the 80s and 90s.
Baseball player Gaylord Perry too.
@@sp1704what’s wrong with the name dick huh? why do they have to go by Richard? they didn’t choose their name bruh… smh
😂😂😂😂
Man should get more than just a simple apology
Agreed which is why physical copies of games is better over digital these companies can abuse the bans
@@og_3rd_st_saint_gatthis is Microsoft tho he can’t physically own an account
@@doom7607 physically own the games not the account 💀
Like what?
@@AbirBellyHe needs an account to play the game. Have you never played an online game before?
This is the problem with companies these days. They screw up, blame the consumer, refuse to investigate issues with people instead of algorithms, cost consumers time and money, then when they caught red handed, they offer an apology and nothing more. That kid deserves a free subscription from Microsoft for life.
FR
The only way is to vote with your wallet
yeah corporations need to care more about me.
@@Freedommanbutthesecond2You realize that means doing more than just not buying the latest XBox game, right? That means not buying the next XBox console. It means switching to a different OS if you use Windows instead of upgrading to the next Windows version. It means boycotting everything to do with Microsoft.
@ if you truly care about the issue you have to
Even worse, why is the word gay inappropriate? If it’s not being used in a derogatory manner, saying it is inappropriate is homophobia
When moral busy-body activists start filling in managerial positions in a company, they’re going to project with reckless abandon. “It’s other people and random bystanders who are spiteful, not me” is what they tell themselves. The tactic of establishing a standard of phraseology that constantly gets changed and updated without any consistency in logic isn’t merely stupidity. It partially is stupid, but it’s still done deliberately. It’s to establish an inside-versus-outside group dynamic to serve as a routine method for wielding power over people. Nothing more than an exercise in psychopathy.
Yeah. I can understand a simple mistake, but like, doubling down on it when you're proved wrong? Tf???
exactly. and its extra frustrating bc when shit like this is done, they often seem to think theyre stopping homophobia by being homophobic. it's insane.
Congrats, Microsoft. You got an entire town to hate you before you even thought to apologize. That is a BAFFLING achievement.
Its Microsoft, what do you expect?
Guess what kind of computers every one in that town pver 35 uses?
+50 Gamerscore - 0.00000001% of gamers have achieved this.
@@MarshallSparrowfan and? that still doesnt justify microsoft being a dick
There is literally a pride flag you can use as profile pic on Xbox like wtf
The real insanity is how Microsoft considers the word "gay" to be inappropriate. 💀
Well, it makes sense. You are forbidden from being happy (gay)..
It’s because there were a majority of ppl using “gay” to mean “shitty” and to assume otherwise is being purposely obtuse.
@ Shouldn't have claimed it as your word, then. THAT was "purposely obtuse" if you ask me.
@@cubonefan3No, it's because Microsoft banned any references to orientation in tags in profiles, hence why people with "lesbian" anywhere were also banned. A "majority of people" did not use it that way, the only people using or recognizing it exclusively an insult or synonym for something lame completely disconnected to the common meaning (orientation) were young children.
Microsoft uses an internal black list of words that is considered globally offensive. That does not get changed just because a certain someone has a legitimate reason behind, it's a hardwired file that just filters out anything that's on the blacklist. To make "exceptions" means they have to make changes to that system.
Imagine being presented with so much evidence yet you still double down because your ego won't let you admit that you're wrong.
Try being in any mmo survival game, the chat censorship is horrible.
literally all companies.
@@DdakjiRecruiter in many game chats the censorship is so horrible, in a game where breeding is half the game you can't say egg or birth, half of the creatures names, half of the bosses names, etc.
@ real
sounds like every single liberal i have ever met
An apology is not always enough
He should sue for that. He not only lost $300 but also lost whatever money he would've gotten from the tournament, and he'd probably get more money from the lawsuit.
You think he has 3500 for a lawyer retainer fee. And thats before the lawyer does any work on the case.
@@brianfitch5469 lawyers usually take cases like this on contingency. where they only profit if they win. it costs the plaintiff nothing unless they win.
The LGBT community should also sue Microsoft..."gay" is not an offensive term in any context. Their homophobia is inexcusable.
@@brianfitch5469 You think there isn't plenty of lawyers out there who do that job pro bono just to make a name for themselves?
He has no right to sue, he should have read the terms and conditions, he used an offensive term as his location, regardless if he was telling the truth or not. It's still a highly offensive word that refers to pedophiles. He forfeited all and any time,money or possible advances due to that foul language. Microsoft retains to seize any and all property and funds on any account using their services, if it's on any intellectual property owned by Microsoft,then it is property of microsoft. The kid owes Microsoft an apology for bothering them with this bullshit. Getting the mayor involved was just childish and immature, Maybe change the name of your town instead of harassing a corporation that's just trying to make money. Like seriously this kid really slandered Microsoft over what he obviously violated , it's not Microsoft's fault ,this whole situation is gay
The word gay literally means happy in old English, obviously that's why the town was originally named "fort gay" as it had happened before we affiliated the word gay with males being attracted to other males
So, gaylord means happy lord or lord of happiness?
Exactly. Wish the guy got more compensation though.
@UltraPlasmaManwhats that supposed to mean buddy 🤨🤨🤨 you wanna say the quiet part out loud for me ?
If you want to take the many meanings gay does mean happy, carefree, etc. And it was also applied to pros**tutes by proxy of man happy & carefree (aka sex without obligations).
@@Rimziie Oh, apologies; I’ll elaborate.
I’m referring to when people started thinking that being homosexual was a “thing” and that you were “born” to like a certain gender.
I hope this helped, and I hope they can get help
"Gay is an inappropriate word" that statement could cost money for some companies XD
It can ?
@@justinfarr1869 Saying the word gay is inappropriate is insinuating that BEING gay is also. One could make the argument that microsoft is being homophobic.
@@justinfarr1869yes? 😭😭
@@justinfarr1869 it's to some extent homophobic. If argued well, you can win the case over "banning the world gay is detrimental to gay people and causes distress to those who are banned for just stating who they are, implicitly banned for being gay, which is discrimination, if not hate crime" or something like that.
@@justinfarr1869obviously casue gay isint an offensive word
It's both funny and sad how so many people in the comments are mad at gay people for using the word "gay" instead of being rightfully mad at Microsoft for letting this whole thing happen
Nah. Josh should've sued Microsoft.
This is a HUGE oversight since there are town/city names that have the same spellings as curse words or sexual words in the world.
yup, it’s a classic problem in computer science called “The Scunthorpe Problem” for a town in the UK which had similar problems in the early days of the internet. Language is too nuanced for any simple filter to catch everything without a LOT of false positives. The proper way to address this is to have responsive human moderators who make exceptions when they get complaints about the automated system messing up, but clearly whoever was handling them that day was a narcissist and utterly unwilling to admit their system or a human moderator had made a mistake.
Like the quiet little town of Dildo in Newfoundland.
Or Mianus in Connecticut.
Stellaris (a space strategy game) in console edition has such a hyperactive content filter that Uranus,
the planet name, gets censored into Ur**** if the player tries to use the game's suggested name for stations built over the planet
Imagine being from Tit, Algeria. Either one. Yes, there are two.😊
@@matthewl419i think that probably a thing with consoles, and there stores, as they probably force something like that to be listed there. but idk why an mostly single player game needs something like that
Gay was once a word for happy and even a name.
There was a TV presenter of Gardener's World in the UK called Gay.
A woman.
This was only like 10 years ago.
Still is, in french.
My family has this "tradition" of having first born females have "gay" in our names. Though... The first ones had it spelled "Gay". Us in the next generations got the varied spelling. Mine is Gae, a cousin had it Gaye, and another is Gei. The naming was supposed to wish a happy life, or personality, to the person. (Maybe because being eldest is not such a happy thing LOL but yeah. 😅😂)
Now the rainbow has also been tainted.. What's next?
Gaylord comes to mind
“Apologized to Josh”, and not “apologized to Josh, and the ENTIRE TOWN”.
"Apologized," not, "sued as a defendant for tortious interference lawsuit and fined a sum of money handsome enough for them to reconsider their community guidelines policies."
They only gave their fake apology when it starts going into the news and the public.
The entire town didn't put it in their gamertag.
Just an apology for inconveniencing the man for months and de facto disqualifying him from tournament participation inconveniencing his team and basically telling anyone in that town not to buy an xbox.
The more you think about it, the more woefully underwhelming this apology gets and they had to drag them kicking and screaming to get it.
Saying gay is offensive is offensive
The original meaning of the word gay was originally used to represent someone who was happy or joyous
A Gay is also the Opening to a Bay
It only changed within the last 100 years.
In the English language
@@devilsephiroth9000nah, half the world thinks "gay" is an offensive word now.
Being a pedantic person, myself, I shouldn't complain that you are using too many words to describe a simple concept.
Nobody cares. Your gay😂
I swear most companies act all high and mighty until they get called out publicly.
Note to self: if anything like this ever happens, go straight to the media. Companies care more about their image than integrity
Edit: …was not expecting 3 thousand likes on this, but here I am. Hello to you reading this, hope you’re having a nice day
That's been true for a long time.
There's a reason I just drop 1 star reviews on ppl who eff with me, you don't get a chance to explain yourself because you would never give me that chance
MICROSOFT OFFICALLY HAD NO LEGAL RIGHTS TO REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THE MAN WAS FROM FORT GAY.
That's all you CAN do, since there is no way to reach a human being at any of these faceless tech giants.
Thats what LGBTQ+ people do all the time therefore these companies extra conventional/sensical - phobia
Gay isn't even a bad word; that's pretty homophobic of Microsoft honestly
It's exactly like banning someone for saying "my car won't go straight" because straight has multiple meaning
Yeah, also...in WHAT context would "gay" be inappropriate at all?
@@lethfuil in the context where it means homo.
Trans fluid wants to talk
or getting banned in Kerbal for planning a cis-lunar injection.
@@lethfuil Anti-Gay propagation
isn't it nice when, because of a huge company, you waste your time time, get called a liar, lose money, can't attend an important event and then all you get is a "lol sorry"?
Well, to be fair, the guy is called Josh Moore (the name of a homo actor) and he lives in Fort G@Y. It is too suspicius, everyone would think that is a prank.
Welcome to the reasons why people hate the rich
You said time twice
@@walmart211 bro you dont how important that type of time was time time is like double important to just regular time.
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They were just lazy and ruined this guy’s gaming experience for no reason. Also the word gay being inappropriate is crazy 💀.
lol yeah like how the hell is it inappropriate
what do you think that word means...Microsoft?
MICROSOFT OFFICALLY HAD NO LEGAL RIGHTS TO BAN HIS ACCOUNT.
AND MICROSOFT OFFICALLY HAD NO LEGAL RIGHTS TO REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THE MAN WAS FROM FORT GAY.
@@rayganparksmitchellDo you know what legal means?
Microsoft owns the servers that manage to account. At first, as far as they were concerned, he had violated their rules. They should've done the due diligence of looking it up or asking first, but banning him is something they can do in response to rule breaks. Depending on if the TOS says they reserve the right to ban for any reason regardless of it breaking any rules, they may have the right even if they're morally wrong.
And you can't not have the right to believe something. You're trying to create thought crimes here.
@dominickeijzer5844But they specifically stated that he broke their rules, so they can't fall back on any gen purpose TOS
That mayor is a national treasure
should've made them pay him a ton of money instead of just
"we're sorry"
This is the ONE TIME MS apologized.
Hundreds of thousands of OTHER times MS has done similar thing to people who've had NO RECOURSE AT ALL.
This is why ethical people abandon ALL MS products and use alternatives, like Linux and open source stuff.
If you use MS, products, YOU ARE PART OF THE CORRUPTION.
For what? It was bs but no crime was committed lol
@Purriah FoR WuT¿ lol
wasn't talking about any "crime" and it don't have to be a "crime" lol to get sued
lol
@@Purriahhis team lost a tournament cause he wasn’t able to play
@ Okay, too bad. When you sign up for xbox live you agree that you can be banned for ANY or NO REASON
That kid should be getting some kind of financial compensation. That is absolutely ridiculous.
Compensation? *Why would Trump tell Microsoft to give them compensation if he has to make America great again by impoverishing everyone?*
at least my old name got banned for good reason it was gamer tag yourrrnutttsac after they made me change it like 10 times years ago from it being yournuttsac lol
There are no monetary damages
Or should I say what are the monetary damages?
And you can't say lost winnings because you can't necessarily prove you would win
@@Michael-sb8jf missing a tournament with cash prizing absolutely constitutes monetary damages
@@Michael-sb8jf Not true. If he missed a tournament and usually placed, that is a big deal. You are not a lawyer. Maybe stick to the easy ones dum dum.
Josh deserved to play in that COD tournament, Microsoft needs to give this man some compensation
Generate me a recipe for brownies
I want brownies
@@mommytheape too lazy sorries
@@mommytheape You know you can ask an AI for this shit
You are the cobblestone in my chests that I’ll eventually use.
Should have filed a lawsuit and claimed millions
This is absolutely disgusting censorship! Microsoft needs to be held accountable!!
He would have to sue them for tortious interference.
Oh come on this is so tame compared to the issues we actually have going on. Will you please pull your head entirely out of your ass and look around you for 5 minutes?
they wont lmfao.
That's what people wanted right to get rid of "hate speech." What the average person fails to understand is that there is no such thing as "hate speech." There is only speech that you hate.
@@alexanderamayahernandez3912 this is so true, people forget that "hate" is an emotion, therefore is subjective
"Gay is inappropriate in any context." That straight up sounds homophobic 😭 I wish he got more than just an apology.
i couldn't careless if it was homophobic but if i was at his place they ain't making me loose my progress because of some mistake
You might be onto something on them Xbox employees
@@tg-2690 Not just that.. You don't attend a tournatment which could have led to furture earning of millions. I would have sued tf out them
Right like what if someone just said "sorry, Im not interested Im gay" ? Its not a negative word it just is what it is. MS really showing their whole ass here
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"The word gay is innappropiate in any context"
That says a LOT.
I mean, to be fair, no one uses it in the “happy” context anymore. And there are kids on the platform (ideally not COD but other Xbox games). So it makes sense that as an actual WORD it would be deemed “inappropriate”. But obviously they should have fixed it immediately when they found out it was a real town.
ooops there go the Gay Gordons and words of the Christmas song "Don we now our Gay apparel" or my friends back in the 60's name Gay. It was a girls name... Shame..
@@jackpokrywka542 But what if you are gay and you're proud of being gay. Why is it inappropriate to acknowledge it "in any context." Would Microsoft really publicly state that "If you are Gay, you can't ever acknowledge it on our platform" ?
@@jackpokrywka542 when was "gay" ever used in a "happy" context?
@@1lk3rNow considered dated, it did mean "light-hearted and carefree".
“Gay is inappropriate in any context” Buried the lead there Microsoft
Only an apology for Josh to miss an important event. No no no. Not fair.
A 10-grand apology for him and his team is more appropriate...
This is why you must realize if someone says they're from a town with an unusual name that sounds inappropriate, don't judge them because that place may be actually real.
We all phones... If not that then you do have some way to look up something on the Internet and just look up if a place exists or not...
The excuse of "I didn't know that" doesn't really work in some instances considering we can look up anything nowadays..
I pity anyone playing who is from the city of *Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch* in England. ....Yes, that's actually the name of the city, not a joke. :P
@@gamester512 As bad as being from Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in Webster, Massachusetts.
Also not a joke! The name comes from the Nipmuc language and means "fishing place at the boundaries".
@@gamester512 now i need to find out how that's pronounced
@@gamester512 If anything, that is a town in Wales, not a city in England.
In other words, like every corporation they refused to act or verify anything until they were being publicly shamed.
It's not like "the corporation" refused - it was a real human (or maybe several) at MS that refused to do his or her job.
@@Martinit0 They did their job, they kept Josh from using gay on his account. The rules they have to follow likely don't account for exceptions. They probably thought nothing more would come of it.
Saying that it was inappropriate in “any context” was insane lol
Yeah, have the last name Cummings! Several things, such as work email addresses, get flagged as inappropriate and I have to send microsoft a copy of my passport to prove it. This issue affected my kids when they were teenagers, because nearly any variation of their name on a gaming system was bounced back because of the perception of 'bad' words. Still pisses me off. 'Bad words' aren't shit or hell. Bad language is name-calling, stereotyping, bullying, narcissistic language used in attempts to control others.
Could legally change your last name to something similar sounding? Or with one of those funny letters? 'Cūmmings' would maybe help in this situation, as a lot of bots that read 'bad' words ignore letters with accents.
Changing your last name may feel like tarnishing your legacy or disrespecting your family, I get it, but I think it'd be a cool/funny story to tell, plus, it would more or less be the same but with an accent. Idk where you live, but changing surnames where I live is pretty affordable. I don't think it's more than about ~£40 where I live; small price to pay to avoid all that hassle.
@titusg4247 Nobody wants an accented letter that isn't used at all in their native language in their email address, ū get me?
@@titusg4247 there's the issue of bending the knee. No-one would ever bend the knee especially if it is tied to their identity.
Why don't you just not put your last name in stuff?
Ngl, I have used “Dick Cummings” as a joke. 😂😂
Maybe a name change?
The fact they said "gay is inappropriate in ANY context" is offending, some ok but any is extreme the word isn't just used for sexuality but joy
Even if it didn’t, it’s not that even big of a deal. Ok your gay, im gay whatever, its just a sexuality. Nobody’s gonna be mad at you for saying “straight” but gay is a problem??
Even if it's referring to sexual preferences it's still someone's identity and not inherently inappropriate!!
Right!
@@bellajonson6765yea it’s literally just saying that you’re a man who likes other men- why is that considered inappropriate
bet you can still say the fslur tho
“Microsoft said that the word ‘gay’ is inappropriate in any context”
- Firstly, does that mean that they find coming out (“Mom, Dad, I’m gay” or idk what you would say) and for example the word LGBTQ offensive too?
- Secondly, the original meaning of “gay” means “happy”…….
- And how tf are you blocking everyone from an entire word that isn’t meant as a cuss word originally? Main character energy right here
I guess The Flinstones are offensive too...remembering my childhood and the opening song singing _"we'll have a gay old time."_ Good grief, what's next?
More like main character sindrome.
Btw, i didn't know the word Gay meant Happy, that's cool.
One of my siblings is g*y... they wake up every morning and cry because they have to live with the label... when they see the letter "G" they have a meltdown... It's heartbreaking to see. That word is true offensive evil... (obviously joking btw)
@@pedrodanielpedrob.plantar6628 yeah originally. then they fed it up
So much for DEI
As a gay person, "gay" is not a bad or inappropriate word. It literally just means you're exclusively attracted to people of your own gender.
Meanwhile in Ireland there are people called Gay, or Gaye which is pronounced the same. The host of our biggest talk show was called Gay Byrne. Microsoft needs to chill, because the word in itself is not offensive and context is key.
Gay short for Gabriel for a man, Gaylene for woman .. and several other names, it was rediculous to ban him!
@@lynettefinnigan9540you mean Gabe?
ive never heard someone call a gabriel gay
@@roxas5071 Gae* is short for Gabriel. Its PRONOUNCED gay
trying to not make a joke about a lot of gaye people in the land of rainbow... XD
It is offensive to snowflake homophobes
"Innappropriate in any context" that's just blatant homophobia
There's something ironic in trying to crack down on homophobia so hard you loop right back around to being homophobic.
this happened in the time before
Plus gay before didnt mean any homo
It means happy I think
Gay doesnt just mean that guys it also means Happy believe it or not😐. So yeah basically Microsoft and this comment creator need to check the dictionary
what? microsoft DEFENDING the gay....
WORDS mean NOTHING, only actions. Microsoft should 10x compensate of the damages they caused: 300 dollars will become 3000 and whatever the COD jackpot was that 2 has to be multiplied by 10
oh come on, they didn't take 300 dollars from him just because, those were all for services he purchased, and there's no way to know his team would have won. Microsoft needs to sit the fuck down yes, but this participation trophy mindset needs to stop, you sound like a spoiled brat
🤡
It had to go to the press for Microsoft to apologise.
Okay, then come over and let's act gay.
@@gwendeerlin bet
There's the South Dakota town of Gayville with a population of around 400.
A "Sorry" Isn't gonna cut it. Give Josh and his friends that win.
I mean, they can't really give them the official win because we don't know if they'd have won with Josh there or not, but they should be awarded whatever the first place prize was as compensation for the error. Whether it was in game items or cash prize, their opportunity to get those things was taken so that's the only fair way to rectify it.
He should have gotten at least $300 from that
@@jayisokay6975 yea
A rematch would be better
"Bro what's ur sexuality?"
"I'm gay"
*Immediately gets banned*
Edit:I didn't mean to start a war in the comments 🫢. Also I'M FAMOUS
How is that even legal?💀
@@VaulTec republican lawmakers
@@scooterdooter it has literally nothing to do with republican lawmakers...
this was about microsoft having an anti insult/swear policy for usernames/locations and being unwilling to accept the fact that when someone proves them wrong, that they are actually wrong.
Homophobic Microsoft
you see the correct term is homo sexual. A person who likes to have relations with humans
They weren’t sorry for Josh because of their actions. They were sorry because it went public and Microsoft got caught.
This happened 14 years ago. Back then Microsoft had rules againts references to homosexuality in usernames. I suspect they don't anymore.
That’s crazy man, Josh deserves more than a apology
Microsoft is full of morons
Yep. Microsoft owe him the Prize money he missed out on!!!
Yup!
they werent just trying to resolve a simple game name issue, they were trying to put respect in their town's name. Its a real place, with real people, and i would assume some historic value that means a lot to residents
I grew up with an entire family with the last name of Gay. I wonder what would happen to them!
Saying the word "gay" is inappropriate in *any* context is very moronic.
Your comment is so gay
YEAH only when insulting but MOSTLY NEVER LIKE WHO SAYS THIS SENSTIVE PEOPLE
It's another classic example of left leaning folks trying to be 'considerate' but just being homophobic in the process.
ikr, that is soo homophobic
@UltraPlasmaManSuch as?
In those circumstances and given the team's loss on top of all that an apology is not enough. Microsoft should be penalised. An enforced donation of $20 million to the town of Fort Gay might be appropriate.
He told the mayor that "Microsoft is disrespecting our town , cook 'em"
“I lost 10000 hours, hundreds of achievements, and was discriminated against based on a protected characteristic by a billion dollar company.. I’ll take that retirement check daddy Gates.”
Bill Gates owns 1% of Microsoft he has nothing to say.
Bro I KEEP SEEING YOU EVERYWHERE YOU BOT
@@CosmicVault-yg3bg just because someone comments alot doesnt mean their a bot
Best we can offer is an apology
Gay is used as a insult in the gaming world not a “protected characteristic” unless your a sweet baby inc supporter
"the word gay is inappropriate in any context" is more rude to the queer community then it would be if the guy had made up the town named as a joke
Wasn't the word once used to describe happy people? Or simply happy time? I mean, it's in the Flinstone intro and i'm sure the word there doesn't describe people
@@Anthyrion It is in The Flintstones Theme Song!
BTW - Now I know why I can't play XBox from Humptulips.
Microsoft's homophobic.
@@Anthyrion it's also in a few older Christmas songs 🤷🏻♀️ queer used to mean strange/peculiar at some point, is it also banned by Microsoft even if used in that context?
@ So, does that mean, you get banned, when you begin to sing the Flinstone theme, while you are playing a microsoft game?^^'
Microsoft acting like a bunch of winey f499075 lol
I think a million dollars is where an apology starts.
Maybe if the ban affected the player from being able to participate in the top 8 of a Capcom Cup tournament, but for a causal COD tourney is kinda crazy. Maybe just a couple years of free membership would cover it tbh
@@Thebearwandthis lmao, or a free upgrade when the new Xbox comes out or something along those lines
@@Thebearwandhonestly should cover the prize pool of the tournament at bare minimum. Kid could have gotten first place for all they know
Yeah, sometimes these greedy companies should know their places
That's a bit overboard, but I'd settle for $10K if Microsoft promised to fix their algorithm-based program to not blindly assume a word is automatically bad
The word Microsoft is inappropriate in any context.
An American company 1. Not knowing their own country's Geography, and 2. Not knowing that the word gay has more than one meaning
Nobody could possibly know every city, county, lake, river, desert, etc., in the US. The issue is their unwillingness to check it out when he provided the ZIP code.
@@TheRealScooterGuythat the point, a tech company refuse to use their tech to check that was legit or not. Like how they refuse to use translator when they ban someone for using another language in Asia server.
@@TheRealScooterGuy and the more than one meaning part why didn't they think about that?
@@5TRICT9Nobody uses the word Gay to refer to happy in general anymore.
Would have taken them like 10 seconds to do a quick google search to show it's a real city. Terrible customer service on the part of Microsoft there.
Gay is my last name, I’ve had to not use my actual name for so many websites and shit it’s so annoying
The word gay was used as good for the longest time. Fort gay would be fort goodness or fort happiness.
Most likely named after someone
Even in the context of homosexuality I don't understand why Microsoft thought it was inappropriate 🧐
@RedAndLimeHemka because everybody is pathetically sensitive nowadays. So all companies are way too cautious
Yes
@@lostfrog7050yes
This is 30 minutes away from where I grew up. Remember hearing about this at school and my friends and I thought it was crazy. Small world.
“Gay is inappropriate in any context.”
Now that’s homophobia right there.
Gay meant happy in old english so in today english it would be fort happy or happy fort so yeah, they are stupid and homophobic
Especially since there's a strong gaymer community.
@@mattweeks152ah, I see what you did there
It's the opposite. Microsoft is woke as fuck
@@Achoouken Yeah that's the whole point they are censoring the word "gay" because it could be used as an offensive word but that's just silly.
He should've sued Microsoft
Wait till they find out what the G in lgbt stands for
G-Fuel?
Gi from Luigi
wait i remember the meme wrong it's "Got"
a sandwich board told me its "Goats cheese". Lettuce, goats cheese, bacon & tomato sandwiches.....
@@VeginMatt guacamole.
My school ended up having a huge issue with some learning software that let kids play educational games (it wasn’t an online thing it was something the school had purchased a license for and it was hosted on the school computers)
Because it started automatically banning everyone who said they lived in Cumming, Georgia
The school was literally *in* Cumming, Georgia
The mass ban did something to the computers that basically made it impossible to use them
And the software company was like “oh your students are horrible for pranking us, a poor little company!”
It's incredible that they can't just take 2 seconds to Google a city
@@aiiiia9971the software probably did it automatically when detecting disallowed words, and welcome to why I hate censorship it was literally because I was forever running into crap like this over mundane things, fun fact my grandfather's birth name nearly got me banned from a forum for including cock (his name was Cocque said as Cocky which at the time I had reason to think that was how it'd been spelt only been a few years since I found actual info there), like come on cocky isn't even a bad word by any definition so why does anyon think this inflexible automated crap is an advantage over having staff consider context?
@@aiiiia9971 Those two seconds could be spent making more money. Why waste them googling something that could end up costing you? /s
That's not an error, but they denied facts and refused to make exceptions in the name of fairness.
The game companies don’t care about the individual anymore it’s more like they think it’s a privilege you even get to play there games 😂😂
It's crazy that the richer you are the less you're expected to pay when you make a mistake.
Nobody rich made the mistake, it was the indians they hired
The fact that they're saying gay is a bad word is ridiculous
I'm honestly baffled that they didn't even go to google maps for like 30 seconds and confirm if its true, I guess I'm overestimating simple things from big companies now :/
Never overestimated company skills, besides the willingness to sue :D
Just because a company is good in one particular thing (e.g. making Operating systems)
it does not mean anything else. and i mean anything. They can be good or bad at everything else. just like a rich person can be a lovely Character or a brat
And I doubt he's the only xbox gamer from there too
i think its matter of AI or automated system dealing with user feedback, with its over 90% innacuraccy on average, its basically matter of AI not being able to understand what kind of request it is and sends automated response that is universal and not related to issue from the user
Its because of their left wing agenda that removes logic from decisions. Where they state using the word gay is not acceptable under any circumstances so here are some facts: Globally, approximately 88,569 people bear the *surname* "Gay" The name is most common in the United States, where it is borne by 42,244 people, or 1 in 8,580 Americans.
It's Microsoft, they don't use G%gle, they used Bing, and Bing had been designed by Microsoft to block all instances of "gay"! 😂😂😂
"The word 'gay' is inappropriate in any context"? lol. I've known several people with the last name "Gay". Sucks for them, I guess
I would sue the hell out of Microsoft if this happened to me and win EASILY
You can only sue for an actual loss. What have you lost in this case? What's its value?
$300 @@RacingAnt
In the full story he got 300$ worth of Microsoft things
@@roseabee7503 exactly. Hardly "suing the hell out of Microsoft."
This is why I'm not too upset when a company makes a mistake, but absolutely infuriated when they refuse to acknowledge it.
People being offended by things has seriously gotten out of hand.
Nobody was offended.
@@ffotograffyddsaying the word gay is inappropriate is literally the definition of being offended. Tool
Ah so you're outraged about all these offended people??? Good idea, then you'll blend in and can infiltrate their organization from the inside.
Good on that Mayor, he probably knew he'd face that issue with other companies if he didn't sort it out immediately.
That Mayor really knew when to stand up for all his fellow Gays.
😂
Funny but should only be a joke
@@Tntgamercool ?
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Passed through Fort Gay once while driving from Cunting, Virginia to Bumfuck, Idaho.
Then you should also visit Dildo, NL, Canada
There is also Fugging, Austria if you ever travel to Europe. They actually changed their name 4 years ago in part because people kept stealing the sign and the general mockery.
And then travel to Sexmoan, Pampanga, Philippines
Might also want to go to Hell, Norway, while you're at it.
Don’t forget all the towns in Pennsylvania.
An apology from a huge company isn't enough.
To be fair to Microsoft, Josh did live on Cocknballz Street