Basically every Unranked to GM tutorial/stream is a high elo player smurfing, no? (See: awkward, etc.)
Are we okay with this in the context of educational content?
Personally I don’t think smurfing is a huge huge deal. All these great players start new accounts and within 50 or so games the cream rises to the top and they make it to the high ranks so it’s not like they’re a constant source of nuisance for metal players, but people who do hate it would have a solid argument that these content creators normalize smurfing by publicly practicing it and aren’t punished for it.
the thing is unranked to GM isn’t really smurfing since the game usually pairs new accounts with master or diamond players
but i hate smurfing itself. making a new account and purposely dropping to be in gold or silver or something is just some low life shit.
(also ive seen your sound design vids before, great content)