Esports is like punk rock. The latter began popping up in a few major cities around the mid-seventies, with bands such as the Ramones in New York City and The Clash and Sex Pistols in London. It all started happening around the same time, and it hasn’t gone away.
That said, punk has only rarely crossed into the mainstream, which should come as no surprise given that at its core, it remains fundamentally opposed to it, its roots so entwined in nonconformist and anti-establishment principles.
Whilst these bands are familiar to many, the genre only revelled in the spotlight for a short while before it went back underground.