Give gamers an open microphone and carte blanche to say whatever they want in voice chat without fear of reprisal, and it will be used to belch hateful, bigoted, and misogynistic bile to everyone within earshot – a sort of expansion to the Greater Internet Jerkwad Theory. We were pretty certain that game devs would have absorbed this by now, given that this isn’t even the first time something like this has happened in Fortnite never mind in the past 28 years of MMOs, but apparently the newly launched Delulu mode in Fortnite, which introduced a no-build version of the battle royale shooter with integrated proximity voice chat, didn’t account for this universal constant, and so Epic Games is now reaping the a-hole whirlwind.

According to the shooter’s own service update account, Delulu mode has already issued “thousands” of bans for gamers’ voice chat behavior, as players call out things like hate speech, slurs, attacks on gamers who have an accent or sound young, and focused misogyny on female gamers from men.

In response to this groundswell of crappy behavior, Fortnite added an additional voice reporting feature to Delulu’s existing reporting features, which will let players provide a voice chat snippet of what was said along with their regular player report. Delulu mode will close up shop on September 26th, which probably isn’t soon enough for many.