shittysideblog:

No matter how the whole DK situation turns out, this just shows again that we don’t know these people.

We know things about them because they tell us and we even might find out things on accident but that doesn’t mean you know them on a personal level. I know that with the OWL players it is especially bad, because in contrast to other “famous people” they are easily reachable via twitter, discord, twitch etc.. But in contrast to other people you find online and befriend, they need to have an actual interest at keeping people they don’t know in real life at a distance
(that doesn’t mean you should disregard any positive interaction you have with them, but remember that it isn’t an equal relationship).

Liking and OWL player because you think they have great skill or because they seem like a cool person is fine. You can even go ahead and defend them when it comes to the stuff you can judge, like performance in a game.

But all these “fans” everywhere thinking they know the players and using this knowledge as justification to make these people out to be some kind of impeccable beings or consider them their “precious babys” etc.. 
You aren’t doing yourself or anybody around you any kind of favours. They will not be able to meet the standards you set because it is an impossible and cruel thing to ask someone to be without faults.
So when they fail, there are the fans who accept and change the view they had of the person, which mostly only hurts themselves and sadly is the good scenario. Because the bad scenario is that these people have invested so much feelings/trust/emotions/time into these people that they refuse to take a step back and reconsider. So not only do they continue have these unhealthy relationships, they lash out at anybody pointing out that the person they consider to be impeccable did something horrible and that often means targeting the victims.

So to anybody who is a fan of these new kind of easily accessible stars. Take a look at how you view the relationship you have with this person and the person themselves. Remember to think of them as a human beings with flaws you are not aware of (especially when making judgements on morals or character of a person).
Nobody, with a brain, will judge you for liking a famous personality before a bad fact about them is revealed, they will judge you for how you react to the news and how your feelings/actions towards the person changes.