Hafu Chan is a legend. For the past eight years, she’s been a star in eSports. And she’s done it while facing an incredible amount of sexism and hostility from others in the male-dominated eSports world.
Hafu streams herself playing Hearthstone and other games on Twitch, where she has thousands of subscribers and a loyal fan base. But she says she’s been turned off from competing because of sexists and trolls sending her nasty messages.
Hafu reveals what life is like for a female eSports celebrity, and what she thinks could help eSports solve its gender problem.