Letting a competitive player who is competing for a competitive team which is owned by a porn company which is making absolutely no advertisements or references in its team colours =/= being associated with porn, let's stop sensationalising it like headlines have to
That's like saying competitive football has chosen themselves to associate themselves with global warming because they allow Ford to be a team sponsor
They aren't associating themselves with it in any way
The funniest thing is, YouPorn is smart. They knew stuff like this controversy was just a matter of time. They aren't getting their advertising from being there, Team YP is exactly that, completely SFW with no mentions or advertising at all of the parent company. Capcom by "censoring" them isn't actually doing it to stop advertising of Pornography at all, they are doing it to appear PC and placate the small minded people who would take offense at them not doing it, but in reality, the competitor who had to "change his team colours or get banned" and then had a censored pixelated Tshirt, further censored and pixelated completely, What do you think that does? Gets people talking about YouPorn like we are doing, or asking in stuff like Twitch chat why he's censored, etc, and as such Capcom is marketing YouPorn directly to their target audience for them, people already sitting at their computer with spare time on their hands. Capcom doesn't give a shit about promoting porn or not, they just want to look like they do and not run some stupidly small risk of "offending" anyone for reasons only someone like the writer of this article could care about, not someone actually involved with their scene
However, at the end of the day I guess it doesn't matter. Everyone is winning here. Capcom looks noble, YouPorn is getting the best advertising money can buy, the player in question has probably just secured the hell out of his sponsorship with Team YP until the day he quits playing, and since their venture is more profitable as to allow/encourage them to keep putting on players into different eSports. I'm just not impressed by Capcoms willingness to consistently throw their own scene under the bus for the sake of the professional victim crowd
