‘Timdog’, another notable Xbox influencer with 82,000 followers – including Spencer, Xbox’s marketing leads and the official Xbox account – made a more dramatic declaration on Monday, streaming a
7-hour Spaces audio discussion on X under the headline “I’m not an Xbox fanboy anymore”.
He later tweeted:
He added:
YouTuber Doc_Dark, a self-proclaimed “console war content creator”, posted a video in which he sang for three minutes about the situation.
Xbox influencer, KidSmoove, another X user followed by Xbox executives,
changed his Twitter banner to a logo reading, “Fuck Xbox”.
Elsewhere, some social media users have posted tweets stating that they’re trading in their consoles, with one showing receipts proving they have already done it, despite the reports still being unconfirmed at the time of writing.
In a more disturbing turn unrelated to any of the influencers mentioned in this story, Xbox’s senior media manager shared an image showing
a message in which an anonymous user wished him harm over the situation.