Basically what the title says. I had fallen into the blame game nonsense. If someone was looking at the scoreboard and trying to blame me, I would argue with them. Sometimes I would even be the one flaming someone else. It happened gradually and I don't think I even really noticed it becoming a problem.

Then finally I was hit with my first ever suspension. They didn't give me the exact reason, but I think it was for cussing, and in any case, that's not what this is about.

In 7 days of being silenced, I obviously was not involved in any toxicity. I wasn't even able to HEAR the voice chat happening in my games. So I just had to play my own game and give it my best.

The result? I climbed 7 divisions in 7 days (Silver 1 to Plat 4) LMAOOOO

So yeah, I guess I've learned my lesson. I'm back out of OW "jail" now but I'm trying not to really talk at all, and definitely won't be responding to toxicity. For now I am going to join voice to hopefully hear good callouts, but we'll see I might just turn it off again.

I'm not proud of getting silenced or my behavior, and I know this isn't exactly breaking new ground, but yeah, just wanted to throw out another experience. The people who say to stop being toxic are correct.