Jay Verchin | 🇵🇸💕✨

classical musician, geo player, crochet addict | stream my EP, Sunday Rush Hour 👇 (they/them)

[Jay Verchin | 🇵🇸💕✨ @JayVerchin]

VESSELS HAS ARRIVED! Stream like crazy and share with all your friends! 💖 Bonus: if you buy any music on Bandcamp TODAY I get 100% of the proceeds for Bandcamp Friday! so GO CRAZY I LOVE YOU ALL https://t.co/XnMtY1wtI5

[Jay Verchin | 🇵🇸💕✨ @JayVerchin]

@ChicagoGeoYT MY GOAT (quite stinky, never washed)

[Chicago Geographer @ChicagoGeoYT]

STOP THE COUNT

[Duncan @DuncanCantDie]

These two @Twitch streamers were paying kids at SDCC to run in front of cars on the street. Insane enough that I logged back into this platform to see if we could get that dealt with.

I’ll pay $20 for their twitch url. Same amount they paid for a kid to run in front of cars.

[どんさん @SUZUME_BH]

まるふぁんくしょん

[Diallo @DiallooTTV]

In less than 24 hours, GeoGuessr has responded to the blackout initiated by the community and it is everything the organization could have hoped for I think.

Hats off to the community for this action and props to GeoGuessr for listening to that same community.

[Richard Lewis @RLewisReports]

Well done to GeoGuessr for taking this stance. The utter shame the rest of the competitive gaming space should feel as a result of this should be immeasurable but sadly they stopped being capable of shame some time ago.

https://t.co/NYqUVa9JTI

[Lennli @Lennli2]

cant believe how based this community is that they managed to pressure geoguessr out of this sportswashing tournament this quickly! thanks to everyone that did their part🫶
(personally i am so glad i dont have to decide anymore if i have to sell my morals to reach my goals)

[Jay Verchin | 🇵🇸💕✨ @JayVerchin]

@geoguessr THANK YOU for listening to the community - I love this game and now this community even more for standing up for women and queer players like this !!!

[GeoGuessr @geoguessr]

We will not participate in the EWC.

Message from CEO & co-founder below:

Hi everyone,

I’ve seen your reactions over the past few days regarding our decision to participate in the Esports World Cup in Riyadh. When we made that decision, it was with positive intentions. To engage with our community in the Middle East and to spread GeoGuessr’s core mission of let everyone Explore the World.

Since Erland, Anton, and I founded GeoGuessr in 2013, we’ve always strived to be a community-first game. Everyone here at the Stockholm office is a passionate GeoGuessr fan, doing our best to build something meaningful, with you and for you. That said, you - our community - have made it clear that this decision does not align what GeoGuessr stands for.

So, when you tell us we’ve got it wrong we take it seriously. That’s why we’ve made the decision to withdraw from participating in the Esports World Cup in Riyadh.

We will come back with information on how the wildcards will be distributed as soon as possible.

Thank you for speaking up and sharing your thoughts.
/Daniel

[Venera 🔅 @geovenera]

NO MORE GEOGUESSR!!! WE WILL ALL BE GETTING CHINESE!!! 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳

[ryan fae (@ryan.staticnoi.se on 🦋) @RhinozzCode]

fantastic, fantastic coverage from Nathan Grayson of Aftermath!

https://t.co/nImsIMh9Xj

[Jay Verchin | 🇵🇸💕✨ @JayVerchin]

Wow it's been a CRAZY day today, but I wanted to announce I'm planning on helping host the Rainbow Classic - a tourney for female and queer geo players - with my good friends Cameera and Souvlaki! 🥳More info here:
https://t.co/boVEjFv7WJ

[Jay Verchin | 🇵🇸💕✨ @JayVerchin]

@Dovi_X this article is FIRE https://t.co/42TSWrpFjT

[polina @antidotessss]

https://t.co/6GndGv3Nhk

[polina @antidotessss]

ratioed by my cat yawning

[Jay Verchin | 🇵🇸💕✨ @JayVerchin]

@RhinozzCode @geoguessr @esports @theScoreesports @engadgetgaming @GAMERNEWSonX @EsportsTalkNews @AllOutGamingX y'all might want to take a look at this

[ryan fae (@ryan.staticnoi.se on 🦋) @RhinozzCode]

"a low-end estimate of the total plays on blacked-out maps is 23.6 million," one map creator tells me. multiple of those maps are used in team duels and official tournaments held by GeoGuessr.

some maps are not included in the estimate due to being completely unpublished.

[ryan fae (@ryan.staticnoi.se on 🦋) @RhinozzCode]

BREAKING NOW: "all major world maps" on the game @geoguessr have been privated in protest of their decision to participate in Riyadh's Esports World Cup.

map creators write that the EWC is used by Saudi Arabia "to distract from and conceal its horrific human rights record."

[Arija @AntiWokeArija]

@geoguessr @EWC_EN Nice job on excluding queer people from your esports, I swear your company is nothing but fuckin dumbasses.