ds_santos_

Apologies if this topic has already been talked about today, but I just saw that he resigned from VLR.

I must say, the ability this man has to not take any ounce of criticism is personally bewildering to me. I personally didn't have any strong opinions on the daveeys tweet, and I did find the James situation a little ironic, but not too bad.

But holy shit, even now, to this day, the man can not even accept a shred of humility and admit that he might have said something insensitive, or been overly rude. Just look here https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/s/QbrsXXntlE

Look at what happened when another writer, I can't remember who it was, wrote out a detailed cordial response to peoples reactions. surprising how much more engagement and meaningful feedback you can get when you actually try to engage with criticism.

On another hand, was he really a good journalist? I tried scrolling through his Twitter, and I can't find any stories that he actually did any sort of investigative journalism. It's all just retweets where he's summarizing the contents of what has happened. Now, maybe I just don't know anything about journalism or I'm missing some old stuff where he actually did talk to sources, and break news, but I can't find any of the from anything recent.

I know this was a schizo post, but the attitude of people like him just piss me off.

TL;DR ds_santos, an unassailable writer with the ego the size of the US, resigned from VLR, and I believe eSports journalism as a whole.

Pretty sure he has some mental disorder

In practice he’s just a shit person tho

thank god that lobotomized fraud is gone 🙏🙏🙏

Wait
Writing articles on VLR is a real job!?

This just made my day Poopastyx is no more 🗿

No one really cares for that moron, ever since his stupid beef with James, and his shitty tweet regarding Daveey’s death, everyone has been hating on his dumb ass which he deserves

Can somebody explain the drama with him

In regards to "was he even a good journalist?", he has done far more for the site than people give him credit for. He was someone that helped onboard the newer batch of writers about two years ago when people like me, Ferahgo, redlight, etc. joined and I'm very grateful for the guidance and patience he displayed throughout it all. I only got into writing articles because I saw tama's "writers needed" post one day and figured I'd apply for the hell of it because I was bored and wanted to see where it would take me. Fast forward to now and I've been able to hone not just my writing skills, but other aspects that come with creating more in-depth articles and projects down the line. I don't ever intend to truly commit to this in a career sense, but that's not to say that I haven't learned a lot from my stay here which would not have been possible without the wonderful support Diogo and the other staff at VLR have offered me. I understand that whole situation has left many people here unhappy with him, but that shouldn't take away from his ability to do what he did for the site, which was a lot more than just write articles. Drama aside, he did a very great job at what he did and I will miss seeing him around 🙂

I have mixed feeling about the recent times and its sorta sad that they depart with a good chunk of the community still upset with them

Lets start with the last question first: was he really a good journalist
Without a doubt yes. They might be hard to find since theres a lot of "simple" reporting to fill the time between them, but ds_santos did write good and in depth articles from time to time. The most recent one I can remember for example is https://www.vlr.gg/282631/running-a-riot-games-esports-broadcast-is-a-lot-of-work-heres-how-much which is a nice insight into the production side of things
Of course other (older) (e)sports like cs have way better coverage than valorant. But considering Valorant was released after the decline of written media (gotta fit stuff in a tweet or people wont read it) and theres hardly any funding for Journalists over here, people like ds_santos (and now the new "generation" of vlr writers) have done an amazing job keeping us informed.

And then the drama... its stupid that it escalated to this extend. A simple clarification from ds_santos on either of the dramas would have reduced it to a "I think youre stupid" instead of whatever tf this is. However it is ironic that we as vlr users are the ones demanding accountability, when there's plenty of prominent users over the years, who have said some bat-shit crazy stuff and we forget it happened after a week or so.
(Its just an observation of different standards, dont misinterpret this as me saying I dont want him to clarify his opinions on either of the dramas and apologize should it be needed. As mentioned in the original post, especially the journalism one lead to some really interesting discussions with other writers on vlr so I would love if he did a post talking about it)

I think its a good time for him to leave. I just dont believe theres much of a ladder to climb when it comes to written content in valorant and he definitely has done enough on here for his resume.
Shame that its with a tarnished reputation, but I do wish him luck with his new journey at E2TECHpt.

damn we lost one of the best writers smh well done vlr for bullying innocent people off of the site

His vlr articles were W tho no?

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