It’s a sad day for Dota 2 esports fans, as one of their heroes is outed for sexual assault and harassment in the latest of the current video game industry #MeToo movement.

Toby “TobiWan” Dawson, a renowned Dota 2 commentator whom we’ve interviewed back then, is being dropped by many esports bodies and organizations. Code Red Esports is dropping him from its representation, and Beyond The Summit has cut ties with him. Valve, the folks who made Dota 2, has removed his voice lines from The International 10 Battle Pass.

Valve has removed Tobiwan's voice lines from the Dota 2 TI10 Battle Pass following allegations from several women of sexual misconduct pic.twitter.com/tTIYbpRVxt

— Rod Breslau (@Slasher) June 25, 2020

How Did It Come To This?

This all started when TobiWan tried to make himself an ally to the abused and asked men to learn from recent events of men being outed for their inappropriate behaviour. However, many women fired back, starting with renowned cosplayer Meruna.

https://twitter.com/Meruna_/status/1276190773285916673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1276190773285916673%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdotesports.com%2Fdota-2%2Fnews%2Fvalve-removes-tobiwans-dota-2-voice-lines-following-sexual-assault-allegations

This wasn’t an isolated incident, however.

https://twitter.com/ashnichrist/status/1276199529252036616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1276199529252036616%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdotesports.com%2Fdota-2%2Fnews%2Fvalve-removes-tobiwans-dota-2-voice-lines-following-sexual-assault-allegations

Just like @DotACapitalist, I believed he was just socially awkward. This, however, is just completely unacceptable.

My plead to everyone: please, listen to victims and try to understand how difficult it is to deal with issues like these.

Thank you.https://t.co/WZQPt6uxwY

— Troels Nielsen (@syndereNDota) June 25, 2020

I'll never forget the first time I saw this. It broke my heart.

— 707 in a sun dress hacking police radios coz BLM (@cofactorstrudel) June 25, 2020

TobiWan did create two separate TwitLonger messages about the situation.

Earlier today I tried to write a response to the women who have been speaking out about what has happened to (cont) https://t.co/BQuCMMSETz

— Inactive (@TobiWanDOTA) June 25, 2020

Meruna responded in kind.

https://twitter.com/Meruna_/status/1276194584381591555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1276194584381591555%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdotesports.com%2Fdota-2%2Fnews%2Fvalve-removes-tobiwans-dota-2-voice-lines-following-sexual-assault-allegations

This also explained why certain Dota 2 personalities like Singapore’s Kelly “kellyMILKIES” Ong was attacked by the community for many years: he was “slut-shamed” by TobiWan.

Oh yeah where were you when he cancelled me? Probably buying and lapping up all his shit while throwing shit at me.
This man you are so sympathetic for is the father of cancel/cancer culture ?

— kelly (@kellymilkies) June 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/Meruna_/status/1276200500824870913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1276200500824870913%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdotesports.com%2Fdota-2%2Fnews%2Fvalve-removes-tobiwans-dota-2-voice-lines-following-sexual-assault-allegations

TobiWan isn’t the only esports personality who was blacklisted from esports for allegations of misconduct. His fellow commentator Grant “GranDGranT” Harris was removed from Evil Geniuses due to his own allegations of sexual harassment.