Dr. Disrespect's Interesting Response to Criticism of His PUBG Demands

The Doc is no stranger to controversy and haters, and often deals with them in his own unique fashion, mocking their own words against him and turning the controversy into views. Most recently, the Doc came out with a strongly worded message to PUBG developer Bluehole, stating that they had five days to add an elite Doc skin to PUBG or he would cease to play the game. While the deadline has not yet been reached, it seems that data-miners have found files related to skins branded with both Dr. Disrespect’s logo, as well as that of fellow streamer Michael "shroud" Grzesiek.

This is not really a big surprise, all things considered. Dr. Disrespect is a very popular streamer with quite a large following, and it’s very possible that he was already aware of the existence of the skins when he made his tweet to developer Bluehole. What is a bit more surprising is what happened next, with Editor-in-Chief of PC Gamer Evan Lahti publicly weighing in on the matter.

Cool that we’ve reached the point where an influencer is holding themselves hostage unless a game meets their demands to promote them and earn them money.

Playful or not, this stuff adds to the antagonism we’ve seen grow between players and devs in the past few years. pic.twitter.com/Ly7XIgsi1G

— Evan Lahti (@ELahti) May 27, 2018

The argument espoused by Lahti is that, while it might have been a joke, the actual content of the demand is troubling, adding to what he sees is a rift between players and developers that has grown over the last few years.

Regardless of the validity of the criticism, Dr. Disrespect has never been one to back down from a challenge, and took the time to showcase his voice acting skills as he read out the tweet in question to his chat in what he proposes is the voice of Lahti.

With the leaking of the skins showing that Bluehole is at the very least working with Dr. Disrespect and other streamers in order to further brand recognition, it seems more and more likely that this is a case of Evan Lahti being caught in the crossfire of an elaborate joke, though one in which he likely doesn’t see the humor. Let us know in the comments below whether you think Doc was out of line, or if this is just another humorous moment taken from an already popular streamer.

(cover photo courtesy of GFUEL and Bluehole Studio Incorporated)