It's a pokemon tournament so this is the level of immaturity and rediculous nonsense I expect from that crowd.

I love Nintendo stuff but once you start getting into the fan base it's all sorts of rediculous drama. Is an unhealthy positivity bias abounds. I've gotten some of them quite pissed before when I've said I don't like some game for certain reasons and they get really defensive like you've just insulted their mother or something and start whining about how much you suck. It's really funny.

I mean I guess they're just the types that take it personally when people don't like the exact same shit as them. There's this great write up online somewhere, the great nerd social fallacies or whatever that really covers it better than I do, let's see here it is.

https://plausiblydeniable.com/five-geek-social-fallacies/

Anyway it's no surprise then this circle is more or less intersected with the expanded Alphabet spectrum, for good and for bad, get the fun flamboyant gays that have solid social skills but don't care about looking like a "nerd" since they're over giving a fuck about that, they're fun, but you also get all the socially awkward emotionally weak types with zero social skills whatsoever and so it's a drama factory.

This is a perfect example as well as the problem with pronouns, it's essentially giving the judge a way to simply remove people arbitrarily then pretend it was justified. If the fox article is to be believed the "They/Them" judge simply didn't like this person for some reason and so made up some bullshit about feeling threatened so they could remove them. Again the level of competency I'd expect from a Pokemon tournament.