The claims⁠, which were mainly shared on X (formerly Twitter) but also popped up across Reddit and Facebook, range from Vanguard preventing startup programs from firing correctly to other programs crashing when the anti-cheat software loads, and some have even suggested Riot's kernel program has been “tampering with unrelated files.” Others simply dubbed it “malware” and declared they would be quitting League until the program stopped breaking PCs.

One high-profile example came from famed League creator LS, who reported both his computers breaking after Vanguard was installed on May 1. He said he fixed one by taking out the CMOS battery and forcing BIOS access, but suggested his other computer is “still bricked.”

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Several user posts on the purported Vanguard issues have also been shared to the main League subreddit but they have since been deleted.

While Riot has yet to address any of the early backlash directly, tech staff have been active in the “Patch 14.9 Bug Megathread” on /r/LeagueOfLegends. One Riot reply suggested some of today's alleged issues “wouldn't be related to Vanguard” and offered up a simpler solution⁠—restart impacted devices and run PC troubleshooting.

The same Riot staffer also suggested any aggrieved players could upload Riot Vanguard logs to the League support page to help “isolate what the issue is.” All the Reddit comments from that Rioter have since been removed.

Banger? pic.twitter.com/VxDGV0Epwk

— बिहार राज्य मेमे विभाग (@MadeInBihar1) May 2, 2024

Beautytok is all up in the shit right now and it's actually kind of funny so ima tell you all about it!

A few months ago a new makeup brand called Youthforia caught some flak from black beauty creators because their foundation shade range was basically non-existent for black people, and that's not allowed unless you're a Korean or Japanese brand (for obvious reasons). The owner of the brand (who is asian but is American and Youthforia is an American brand) actually came out and tried to defend their shade range by UNIRONICALLY saying it was a SOCIAL EXPERIMENT and was met with even more criticism because we all aren't fricking BLIND and that's STUPID. AND all of the shades on the box were NOT the shades that you get in the bottle so darker shades were actually even lighter than advertised which only made people more upset.

SO to appease the masses Youthforia expanded their shade range and introduced like 5 new shades for darker skintoned people and now everyone wants to burn down their HQ.

IT'S FRICKING SHOE POLISH BLACK. This shade is a literal asian-on-black hate crime and everyone is soooooper mad because it's LITERALLY black face paint. The shade is being compared to minstrel makeup and now Youthforia is sooper raycist.

Like you know if Time fricking magazine orders a rush job article about your debacle you done fricked up good.

Anyhoo tiktok is all abuzz with their pitchforks and you can pick pretty much any video about it and watch jaqqoffs slaughter each other in the comments with whataboutism and "muh cousin's neighbor is black like a tire and would love this!"

It's great.

36 yr old white man tasered after murdering 14 year old boy in England. Very lucky he was white.

A black man or Muslim would have been shot dead! pic.twitter.com/5z8DAhlKHb

— T. Bernadetti (@MrsRoyKeaneo) May 1, 2024

Another sad victim of America brain disease

!britbongs

Turns out he was a !macacos so everyone now gets to claim he was their preferred racial group

https://twitter.com/ryan1mcq3/status/1785640624722514328

https://twitter.com/MarkMcC57046578/status/1785734668882506171

https://twitter.com/ParkBoundary/status/1785946683630620846

https://twitter.com/MarkMcC57046578/status/1785734436060840054

It's extra stupid because the Met infamously did shoot a Brazilian in 2005 and he was innocent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes

Bhim Army members of the Charmakar caste did Shuddhikaran of Dr Ambedkar's statue because Chirag Paswan of the Dusadh caste touched the statue.

It's pure casteism. Ambedkarites should get rid of their casteism first before giving gyan to non-Ambedkarites. pic.twitter.com/6bzDT0LKEI

— Shubham Sharma (@Shubham_fd) May 3, 2024

Lower castes ritually clean statue of anti caste leader because a lowerer caste person touched it.

This shit ACTUALLY pisses me off

Whats the purpose of doing that pic.twitter.com/dqIaSOuQGZ

— 🍉🤍ЯΣX🤍🍉 (@ThatRabidDog) May 1, 2024

Bottom text lmao.

AMA

I can’t do the drug dealers no more I need me a nigga with a good job or a business. A lot of y’all just liabilities it be hard to build a future with y’all

— Nai 🧜‍♀️ (@asianamerican__) May 1, 2024

@kaamrev

Can't even handle a little banter

https://bsky.app/profile/sitaart.bsky.social/post/3krjlpbyzt22l

Manuel's family has told the BBC that his usual treatment, prescribed by British doctors, ran out in mid-April. He now has to take an alternative provided by the Qatari authorities.

Not much drama, just a seethe post I found funny, but a part really stuck out to me

To clarify, Dad has no medical or physical issues whatsoever, he worked at a construction site for frick's sake!

Wonder why it's past tense? But yeah, totally no physical issues

Redditors are so r-slurred lmao