Oh wow, he went full force on that one. Both Ninja and PewDiePie (edit: AND he threw in Markiplier as well for good measure
) got slapped around for "catering to kids" by a 36-year-old man who talks to a toy dog and shouts at video games when they provide him with a challenge.
How this is not against Twitch's Terms of Service/Community Guidelines is beyond me... Literally slandering a fellow streamer and accusing him of taking monetary advantage of children.
Here's the clip:
-edit- Full transcript, pretty much word-for-word, here:
"Ehm, I have to agree. If a kid is addicted to fucking Fortnite or any other video game or anything like that, it's the parents' fault. At the very same, you know, I have no idea what
Ninja said, so I'm not gonna say I agree or disagree with him. But you have to understand that it has been the viral popularity of personalities like
Ninja that have led to this addiction, okay? Here's a guy... he's on stream,
he dyes his fucking hair in a cartoonish color -
he looks like a muppet, he dances around on webcam when he plays and
he overreacts.
And yes, I'm kinda talking about PewDiePie and those other people, who basically found this niche:
Oh, if I act like a cartoon character on stream, I can get views from the kiddies! And even though those kiddies don't have money, I'm gonna still get tons of new views and advertisement revenues and people will be contributing to my streams and videos on Youtube, and I'll become a filthy rich motherfucker!
Forget the fact that that is degrading things like Twitch, things like Youtube, alright? It does! It degrades it down to a
garbage level. And sadly that's what happens with all these businesses: you
lowbrow content, low quality content that is now
catered to the mindless masses, the people who just jump on and watch something because it's virally popular.
Things like
PewDiePie, Markiplier, Ninja, that's attractive to a younger audience. And they know that! And that's why they cater their content to a younger audience. So I agree with
Ninja, if what he's saying it's the parents' fault. At the same time, he can't be completely one-hundred percent immune to... for blame, because
he's one of the things that's creating the whole atmosphere of becoming addicted in the first place.
I am a cartoon character! I act it up to try to bring in little kids to watch my shit so I can be rich! Okay? So there you go."
Well, there you go indeed, Phillip. There you go...
