July 2 tragically died Byron Reckful Bernstein – he committed suicide as a result of bipolar disorder and, as a result, chronic depression. This news touched the entire gaming community: everyone mourned – from Ilya Illidan Pivtsaeva up to five times the US chess champion. We tell you why everyone loved Reckful.
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One of the best wow players of all time
Reckful has become popular primarily due to its excellent MMORPG game. He started with the little-known Asheronʼs Call these days (the counterparts were Ultima Online and EverQuest). Young Bernstein quickly got used to the game and became one of the best in it, for which he even received the nickname God of PK – this is an abbreviation for the phrase Player Killing, an analogue of the more common PvP expression.
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One of the first Twitch streamers
Before leaving esports, Reckful was already very popular: for example, three of his video slices with highlights for the robber gained millions of views on YouTube, so it cannot be said that he started on Twitch from scratch.
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Hearthstone has become Reckful’s core game for years to come. During this period, he met even more streaming friends, including Sebastian Forsen Force, which later became for him one of the closest people.
What else will Reckful remember?
It can hardly be attributed to the streamer that Reckful was a very kind and open person, but it was precisely this that formed a loyal community around him in many ways. Even after Bernstein left World of Warcraft and Hearthstone, thousands of people continued to watch him. Everyone was interested in how the streamer lives, and he was happy to share with the audience all the more or less important events of his life.
Someone remembered his IRL streams from Japan with Sodapoppin, others – broadcasts from Spain with forsen, others – different funny moments from joint broadcasts with other streamers. It is difficult to single out one thing: here are emotional moments with close friends, and the famous conversation with a psychiatrist about depression, and memes with gachimuchi, and developing your own game Everlandthat Reckful had long dreamed of, and acquaintance with the Russian language – do not list everything.
Perhaps it is impossible to feel the tragedy of a Reckful suicide if you have not watched its streams. For everyone else, his premature departure became a real grief. In World of Warcraft, on many servers, they began to salute Bernstein, his friend and colleague in WoW Asmongold collected over $ 20 thousand for one stream that will go to a public organization for the prevention of suicide, and streamers against the background of the tragedy have already begun to actively condemn online bullying and admit in their own psychological problems. The death of Reckful united all the community, and his legacy, as the apt saying Genus Slasher Breslaureally never be forgotten. Rip.
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