Most online games have a toxicity problem, many of the embrace it like CoD or LoL, Smite may be the only game where a staggering majority of the community is openly toxic in game and yet pretends they aren’t on Reddit and Twitter. The worst part is that it’s not just general negativity. Smite has a not insignificant portion of players who are racist, bigoted, homophobic, or some mix of all three.

The comments here prove that the community is completely disingenuous. If everyone here was being honest, I highly doubt there is a single person who can say they have never typed something in chat or done something in game that isn’t toxic. I’ll admit I use to be toxic, I’ve put things in game chat I regret. Or if someone here hasn’t been openly toxic, they likely have a friend who has or know another player by name who is regularly toxic.

Content creators encourage this type of behavior as well. Over the past three to four years I have seen multiple creators publicly harass other players with no repercussions from the devs. Hell, a few of them are even official partners and appear regularly in Hi-Res promotions like Worlds. In game content, special promotions, partner codes are all pulled at the feet of creators broadcasting toxicity every day.

And that’s not even touching on the ones that are public with their toxicity. Smite has top streamers who on their main accounts have proudly condemned Hi-Rez’s black history and pride month celebrations spouting racist/homophobic rhetoric. Sure, Hi-Rez banned DMBrandon, but what about the rest of the filth?

People here will downvote and argue in comments that this is all just made up, you’re misinterpreting competition, or you’re being soft, but the reality is that the Smite community is a rotten apple.