Regarding Ellie:
- Ellie has said in private messages to teammates in the last hour confirming she has not been the one playing, she is a 17-year old girl but is 'not good' at OW, no Second Wind players/mgmt knew
- Blizzard is currently holding a meeting with SW players/mgmt
- Ellie has said in private messages to teammates in the last hour confirming she has not been the one playing, she is a 17-year old girl but is 'not good' at OW, no Second Wind players/mgmt knew
- Blizzard is currently holding a meeting with SW players/mgmt
Punisher, the player assumed to have played as Ellie, is just another NA ladder player. Not a pro smurf or semipro. It is also possible more than one person played under her name.
Correction: The meeting between Blizzard and SW has not yet occurred, will happen in the next hour.
Correction: The meeting between Blizzard and SW has not yet occurred, will happen in the next hour.
I have received screenshots of Punisher in a private message conversation with a woman Overwatch player 'Catsui', who was not aware of this incident until recently. Punisher, seen in a Battlenet conversation under Ellie, uses his 'egirl smurf' to grief OWL and other top players. 
Catsui tells me over the phone that Punisher also proposed to her a similar 'social experiment' as his playing through/with Ellie, and she says that he apparently had asked several women in the Overwatch community the same.
And by 'social experiment' I mean 'be a conniving asshole'
There is more. Seriously.
Another female Overwatch player has come forward who also used to talk to Punisher. Discord messages between them show Punisher telling her he has a girl, "a lot of them actually", who speaks on voice for him while playing. Says players slid into DMs to offer money & 'seduce him'
Bunnyadore tells me she met Punisher through quickplay LFG and after playing duo with him a girls voice suddenly came on & they were both laughing. Bunny says Punisher was shady and made creepy jokes saying 'I love you' & using her cute 'scottish accent' as one of his girl voices
Punisher bragged to bunnyadore by sending her a video of him playing on another alt 'Bmily' with @xQc and Fleta, getting potg. He clipped it through his own Twitch account of Fleta's stream. A woman's voice can be heard saying "gg guys" after xQc speaks. clips.twitch.tv/FragileCrunchy…
...There is actually still more
According to a third woman who has spoken to Punisher but does not wish to be named, and did not come forward earlier due to fear of harassment, says Punisher is behind the Ellie Discord and Twitter accounts. It’s all fake. No girl or person was initially harassed by Haunt.
The third woman, another OW player, says Punisher asked her to talk for him while he was playing. She said he would count down 3-2-1 as the cue. It’s believed Punisher has many women to talk for him and possibly someone close to help, but the online presence of ‘Ellie’ is fake.
Unintentionally, certain game/culture journalists from sites like Kotaku and Polygon ran with Ellie’s removal without proper due diligence, now a recurring problem for the media’s esports coverage. All to the detriment of the serious issue of women facing harassment in games.
