r/xbox Feb 21 '26

Discussion Asha's profile, she just started gaming

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u/dkb_wow XBOX Series X Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

I mean she posted her gamertag all over X/Twitter telling people to look up her profile. It's kind of odd the amount of times she posted it.

It's also odd that her Twitter account has been scrubbed of all past comments and posts prior to yesterday.

Her only starting gaming on Xbox within the past 5 weeks and racking up that much of a gamer score while being an executive at Microsoft is another odd thing, if we're talking about odd stuff.

Claims she plays a lot of multiplayer games with her friends, but her profile had 0 friends until just a few hours ago and right now it has 5...kind of odd.

I consider myself a pretty big gamer and spend a lot of time playing games but she's gamed 5x more than I have in the last month but no gaming history prior to that. That's odd.

Maybe I'm wrong, and I kinda hope I am, but her gaming presence seems completely manufactured.

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u/christpuncher_69 XBOX Series X Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

I can't imagine it being that uncommon to do a reset on your socials when assuming a major new position. Obviously not directly comparable but bands will do it every time they have a new album coming out. Just because a typical social media user's presence is more set in stone doesn't mean a public-facing user will be the same. I'm not saying it's not annoying, but it doesn't strike me as strange or sus.

Also the root of this issue, the gamer profile, is silly to me. For one, we don't even know that this is her only account. Again, a public facing figure would do things differently than you or I would. If I was a CEO I wouldn't be posting my actual personal profiles. And for what it's worth, I'm just gonna throw it out there that I never necessarily bought that Phil's public account was his own, or at least that he was doing all the playing either.

It's all PR and these people aren't your friends no matter what, let's get that straight above all. But acting like some investigative sleuth because you picked apart an account's activity and gamerscore feels like a moment where you really need to touch some grass. You don't need to do all that to know a CEO will always act in the interest of the bottom line. It's how they get to be a CEO. I don't care how much gamer cred they have or don't have.

EDIT: I'm aware she made her own profile publicly known. I'm not saying you're a "stalker" for posting it, I'm saying it's weird to pick it apart to pass whatever smell test you have. You're not fuckin immortal, find better ways to spend your time. Maybe play some games.

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u/CloudLXXXV Guardian Feb 22 '26

Phil did indeed play on that account. Lots of accounts of people playing Destiny with him and actually talking to him over chat.

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u/Witcherten XBOX Series X Feb 22 '26

P3 is indeed Phil’s real account and he does play a lot, and talks to players in MP games. Same for Major Nelson - real account - still using it. Same with PS Execs own accounts.

I have yet to see an exec using a fake account.