Elias "Upset" Lipp is a professional League of Legends player who is on his second stint at Fnatic. Lipp's confidence in his own abilities, his risk-averse playstyle (according to community perception), and an incident that occurred in 2021 have caused a lot of hatred from the community to flow towards him. You could call him 'controversial', but Lipp hasn't even done anything to court controversy.
At the 2021 World Championships, Lipp left his team at the tournament to be with his wife, who had suffered a sexual assault. Before the details of why Upset had left the tournament became public knowledge, his teammate Adam "Adam" Maanane publicised his frustration towards Upset, drumming up a lot of hatred for the bot-laner. Despite the justified nature of Lipp's actions, a lot of this hatred still endures in the community.
In a lengthy off-season interview with Jake "DonJake" Morley, Upset discussed the level of harassment he faces from the League of Legends community.
"First, they say stupid things about gameplay that they don't understand for the most part. Then they go a line further and try to discredit everything I've done in my adult life [...] It's very sad obviously,...
