Hi everyone! Thanks to encouragement from many lovely folks, including
@SMankuta
, this year I'd like to step back into collegiate in a larger capacity.
I'd love to speak to more students, mentorship, panel, or otherwise. PM/ops, marketing, and early career are my specialties.
as a reminder, I moved cross country to pursue my dream in a city I knew nothing about. I was living every collegiate student's "dream", going full-time immediately after grad. I put my blood, sweat, and tears into events like LCS Chicago.
I was laid off after six months.
Evil Geniuses top management should be barred from working in esports.
The only power
@EvilGeniuses
should have left is to expedite the player/coach contracts, and access Google docs to write glowing employee referrals for single person they've screwed over.
As many of you are already aware, I was let go from Evil Geniuses unexpectedly last week.
As such, I am looking for new opportunities in 📚 project management or ⚙️ operations!
Resume is available upon request via DMs, and RTs are much appreciated. Love you all 🤗 💜
I got a raise instead of a layoff at six months this time 🥹
I ordered pizza and played Baldur's Gate all night to celebrate with my boyfriend as I should
my coworkers will never see this but they are all so lovely, kind, and supportive ❤️ I love them all, they are the best
happy to announce I am now the Brand Ambassador Lead for the Genius League 🥳
I was going to make a nice video to celebrate my promotion but I hope this popcat suffices
#LIVEEVIL
re: pay in collegiate
esports, with how collegiate students are treated, conditions us to expect zero pay. I am glad people are calling it out
when I found out that I would be paid as an EG intern, I cried. I did not believe I would/should be paid for my future work at the time
wanted to drop some small news for everyone ☺
I will be staying in Seattle as I have found full-time employment! very grateful to everyone who kept me going these past two months, thank you so much.
ready to get back to work and focus on my career 😁
and now for your regularly scheduled appreciation post for men who don't put up with or enable misogynistic culture in any way
not even for the "memes" or "reactions"
yall are kings
never compromise
yesterday he asked me to be his girlfriend 🥺🫣
today we're gonna drink, get cozy, and watch youtube and arcane to celebrate the new year ❤️
happy new years to everyone and here's to 2023 🥂
I deserve to be where I am.
I know what I've built and it will remain. I've met so many lovely people from what I've done for the past two years and that is the greatest reward.
I'm not going anywhere. I'm not a fluke. And I will continue.
Neither are you, if you see this ❤️
@retro4214
I was there and I saw it happen to me, to you, to so many people. I wish there was anything I could've done to help everyone but all we could do was focus on graduating and staying sane.
I'm just happy we can look back and say we made it.
up early thinking about how I had a panic attack at LCS last year because of how overworked I was. crying in a stairwell alone as C9 won.
finally in a place where I want to move on from that chapter. don't sacrifice your health for your job. cherish and take care of yourself ❤️
happy 24th to me (I've already had like three slices since I got the cake early)
my 23rd was a year of recovery and finding myself and what makes me happy. I'm hoping this year is full of vibrant memories and living my life to the fullest ✨
🥳🎂
First time being in office (we all go once a week), got to attend the quarterly all-hands and learn more about the company, meet my coworkers, had delicious lunch from a food truck, and visited the Space Needle with my team.
Wow. I'm really happy. Everyone is so nice. 🥹
little did I know that in less than a year I'd be:
🔵 working for EG
🔵 have an AMAZING team of coworkers
🔵 successfully move across the country
🔵 get a prettier apartment than I ever imagined (my kitchen, hello??)
😭 😭 😭 I am so grateful to everyone who has supported me.
✅ EG office visit
✅
#PaxWest
✅ MoPOP
✅ Space Needle
🔜 Chihuly (re-visiting!!)
🔜 Aquarium
🔄 delicious food
is this what it's like to be a tourist? growing up in a tourist town I just never really did this 🤔 anywhere I'm missing that I should go?
I am just angry.
my beliefs are based in research, studies, and data that shows many women will be harmed.
but an abstract moral code based on talking points has been solidified as law again. love it.
just so angry.
heartwarming to see the vision behind DSG. toast says esports should be about passion, not money. when I was in the industry it was not that way.
to see so many people in that video smiling and having fun made me really happy. I think I am a big fan of DSG now.
@OvileeMay
Hi all, I'm Annabel, and I go by Euny.
My main passion is project management and I've been working in esports since 2019, most recently with Evil Geniuses.
I love esports and want to stay -- you can find my resume and socials at :)
it's my second day of working at EG officially and I'm on my way to Dreamhack Dallas for my first ever work trip 😯
so unreal, I'm unbelievably excited 😭😊
can't wait to see all the gamers!!
hello everyone, no sappy post here but just happy to celebrate
#BiVisibilityDay2022
today and be myself unapologetically ❤️💜💙
I am not always very public about my personal life but wanted to share today ☺ 🎉 this past year has been a journey full of self-discovery :)
I really, truly thought it was all over that day. I was never going to work in esports again. What was I going to do with my life?
I gave so much of myself away because I love esports so much. At least I learned to never do it again with people who will take advantage of you.
I keep typing and discarding drafted tweets because I want to say something but can't put the words together.
truly sad. I am glad to be surrounded by people who are equally outraged by what's going on but damn if it doesn't make me sad to know there are people who don't care.
everyone I have a request
I want to follow up and coming, new generation esports club leaders because I'm feeling old and retired
I'm from 2019-2021 🧓 please drop their @ in the replies!! let me be the grandma that cheers for you!!
(this is only half sarcasm, please do it)
Super excited to be a finalist for the ✨ Best Intern ✨ award in the "Rising Stars" category of
@thegamehers
Awards.
You can vote for me at 🔗 - I'm listed as Euny!
Big thank you to
#TheGameHERsAwards
for creating an award to recognize young talent 😈💙
2021:
😈 got the EG internship
📈 got promoted (after 4 months!!)
🏆 hosted 2 ✨ fancy ✨ tournaments with an amazing team
🫂 made amazing & supportive friends
😃 finally had a relatively good year
made this to remind myself that I'm doing so much better than I ever expected 😊
💼 Got a new job and recovered from layoffs
🗒️ Have a much better work-life balance + appreciated at my job for my hard work
😄 Finally got a friend circle local to Seattle and started going outside
🎮 Caught up on a bunch of great games + anime I missed
updated my bio - I am no longer an officer with Esports at UCF. I will be facilitating a two week transition period to help the new officers.
sad to leave as I had some good memories, but also happy to be able to pursue other endeavors and continue to work hard at EG!
cheers 👍
very glad to get the hell out and focus on my career. I've decided to prioritize stability -- there's plenty of time to pursue your dreams later, in my opinion.
I'm looking forward to the quiet life and less emergency fire extinguishing in exchange for focusing on myself 💪
I wouldn't be surprised if we se a mass exodus of former esports employees leaving the industry completely.
Every day there are more & more people who need new jobs, and fewer & fewer available jobs with companies not being able to afford to hire.
Get out while you can 🗣️
the fact that I am only receiving rejection letters from jobs I applied to TWO MONTHS ago is like, seriously disgusting... if I hadn't been able to get a job here I would've moved home by now because I wouldn't have been able to afford living here zzzzzz
it is honestly very tiring to watch good people lose their jobs when all they do is show up to work every day with love for their jobs and do as they are asked. the problem is direction and leadership and every time, it's the workers who lose out.
not being tied to any sort of collegiate program whatsoever is kinda liberating, ngl
what should I do with my free time now 🤔 I wanna get my collegiate work boots back on
(also yes if you are confused I am currently unemployed. I will post about it soon.)
LCS is what got me into esports in the first place. Can't believe that I'm a member of the winning LCS org.
I've watched everyone at EG work SO HARD for this. I feel so blessed and proud IM NOT CRYING
Boss intern 🔜 Best intern 😈💙
Happy to announce that I've been nominated for
@thegamehers
Awards “Best Intern” Award in the “Rising Stars” category!!
If you enjoy my work (or would like to support me) please vote for me:
#TheGameHERsAwards
Gravity Media is thrilled to announce a momentous milestone as it embarks on its expanded partnership with the world-leading game publisher
@riotgames
.
totally ruined my knee walking so much in SF but had such an amazing time. lots of delicious food -- and of course getting to be so close to the stage when DRX won was such a beautiful moment.
glad I was able to take this vacation and enjoy being a fan of League :)
it's officially been a year since I moved to Seattle and I've been doing so much better lately. I owe it all to my friends for keeping me going through the hard times and making time for me when I needed it most.
to those who have supported me, you know who you are ❤️ thank you
I've dealt with this in the past. kids mad that a club is rightfully concerned about their behavior. I want to share this response from zyro.
instead of apologizing/reforming, this kid (nightmare) has been fighting the bans nonstop and acting like it is his pursuit of justice.
still processing that I just attending my first
#LCS
championship - working for one of the competing teams. even just getting my badge was emotional.
incredibly tired but also blessed to have been a part of the experience and met so many amazing people, friends and fans alike.
I remember when nicole said she would copyright collegiate esports awards after my capstone presentation
crazy to see where everything is two and a half years later lol
collegiate esports, that company, me, all of it
📙 College: four years
🎮 Collegiate esports: three years
💜 Relationship: three years
😈 Internship: one year
so much has changed since I started college, but I can look back and be proud of my progress so far! 💗 and still lots of change to come 👀
Super excited to announce that I will be hosting a panel in the
@Cloud9
University Panel Series today 🥳
Joining me will be Cloud9's very own performance psychologist, Gary Hoyt!
🗒️ Esports and Mental Health
⏰ 3:30PM PST / 6:30PM EST
🔗
me: oh god I'm graduating this semester, going to have to find a job, move, decorate a whole apar-
also me: I can finally have time for side projects and meeting people?! no more school, only esports 😳‼️
is this me being too idealistic??
on my way to the airport thinking about how happy I am to be able to go home and tell my family about how well I'm doing and how much I love my new job.
they were there for me through everything at the end of last year and I owe so much to them for always supporting me 🥹
@GoonPNW
I swear it's like how anyone who has worked customer service becomes the nicest person to customer service people.
I always tip well and try to be extra nice to waiting staff cause I was there. Same with tournament ops people and discord mods, been there and done that 🫠
I'm going to try not to tweet about it too much moving forward but please understand I was unable to say a lot of what I wanted to say for a while and it takes time for these things to leave my system fully. it was a big part of my life.
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did my first stream for EG wowowowowow
almost 600 unique viewers and some AMAZING casters, players and volunteer coaches!! thanks to those who came out, I saw you in the chat even if I couldn't respond back :')
just finished my last day in-office. a bunch of my team was out sick so it ended up being a really quiet day.
part of me is going to miss certain things about this job, but I'm ready for a big change.
excited about my next chapter!
I feel profoundly icky after a guy 2.5x my age:
- stopped mid conversation at the gate to say "you look white but something else. what are you?"
- joked to his wife I was his girlfriend (she was so nice despite this)
- hollered at me on the way to the baggage claim
... 🤢😭
I just got told I don't deserve the "industry professional" role by the esports org I co-founded because I'm not working full-time in esports and I'm not "high profile enough"
love it
I always get excited when I see a new work email
nvm it's just someone I don't know emailing me with a pitch for an "esports" service - as if I, ✨ the intern, ✨ am actually in charge of partnerships and can get them a deal with the company 😭 please stop
very nice to see considering just 3 years ago certain faculty allowed a team to get away with hate raiding a discord + spamming slurs, and also cheating
and even gave one of their pals a spot on the officer team, after that group harassed me to the point of certain ideations
got approved for my internship class for fall, which means one less unneeded class to boost me to full-time.
let's go!!! working at EG AND getting credit for it 😎
well, rip esports monetization LMAO
so like, what is any big esports broadcast going to do now to meet sponsor obligations? "well, sorry, Twitch really just screwed us over 😬"
first things that come to mind for me as a viewer are EVO and LCS.
Twitch has new Branded Content Guidelines.
- On-stream logos are limited to 3% of screen size.
- Burned-in video Ads are NOT allowed.
- Burned-in Display Ads are NOT allowed.
- Burned-in Audio Ads are NOT allowed.
#TwitchNews
#TOSgg
witnessing the "riot doesn't see collegiate as a path to pro" moment last(?) year to "we're gutting path to pro requirement" today almost makes me laugh at how awful it is
I'm so so so sorry for everyone who will be affected by this, especially because most if not all had no say
it must have been so confusing for the honors deans today to ask what I'm doing after college after seeing radio television and computer science on my name tag and hear "esports" and "project management" 😂 😂
anyways I got my HONORS MEDAL 🏅 for extra graduation drip 👍
LFGGGG
it may seem like I hate esports. I don't. I'm just angry. I did it for collegiate and I'll do it for esports in general even if it makes me unpopular.
no one deserves to see their hard work wiped away in an instant, ever, when they did nothing wrong :l
it is honestly very tiring to watch good people lose their jobs when all they do is show up to work every day with love for their jobs and do as they are asked. the problem is direction and leadership and every time, it's the workers who lose out.
Lessons for today:
1⃣🅰️ Do not ask for an intern to fill the shoes of a full-time employee.
1⃣🅱️ If you need a full-time employee, just hire one.
2⃣ Internships are meant to be for a person to learn, make mistakes, and grow -- not be under pressure all the time!
😤😤😤
I decided I would cook now so I didn't have to for three days... 😅
1⃣ cornbread*
2️⃣ bacon and spinach quiche
3⃣ chicken and wild rice soup (with veg!!)
*it's box mix don't get too excited yall
ignore my stove the bacon grease got everywhere 😡
I have a degree in radio-tv and I'm a project manager in marketing.
everyone makes their own path and choices, and some people use what they learn in their degree and some don't. yall should maybe think about that before making a blanket statement about all degrees and majors.
Not sure how to get into esports? Looking to up your resume and networking game?
The Genius League is available for you! We'll be offering resume reviews, networking nights and more in the future - make sure to grab roles for your interests. 👇
🔗
🚨Intel Inspires Summits begin Monday! 🚨
We're stoked to see
@EvilGeniuses
present their panel on their genius league program and offer a $5,000 Scholarship in their name!
Educators Sign Up Here to attend
Students Apply Here:
my last day as an intern has finally come 😭 a huge thank you to
@EvilGeniuses
for being a huge part of helping me develop as a professional and letting me help others too!
it was an honor to be a part of operating the Genius League 🥺💙
more details on my future soon 🔮
Thank you to the Genius League interns for all of their hard work, memes, and positive energy that they brought to EG this past year. Today is the final day that this cohort will be with us and we wish each of these champions a bright future.
Had such a great time working my first ever FGC event!
Huge thank you to all the staff for being incredibly welcoming and to everyone who attended and made it such a fun time.
I'll be back for sure 😁🙌❤️ also I'm apparently an honorary member of EWA 🫣
Summer Camp 2 is officially closed!
Thank you so much to our volunteer team, production team, streamers, photographers, and commentators for your hard work.
See you guys in Portland this October!