How Ninja become gaming's first crossover star
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#2"I play Fortnite every day, Mom. It's my dream to play Fortnite." - What a world we live in now a days...
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#3Toxicity in gaming + virtual communities (particularly against women) seems to be an issue that no company has a great grasp on.
I recently gave Fortnite a try and ended up turning chat off due to relentless abuse by someone that sounded like they were pretty young. It made me a bit sad - I met some of my best friends growing up online in irc channels playing CS, WoW, etc - not sure if I would be able to do so today.
Also Polygon article where Ninja talks about why he doesn't stream with female gamers (for whatever reason espn didn't link...) -
https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/11/17675738/ninja-twitch-fema...
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#4"I play Fortnite every day, Mom. It's my dream to play Fortnite." - What a world we live in now a days...
Oh the stress of modern celebrity! I'd give you all my pity but I already spent it raising children and paying a mortgage and working for sociopaths.
Having said that, now I fucking well WANT to play Fortnite every day
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#5These twitch streamers and their relationship to their audiences reminds me a lot of William Gibson's simstim celebrities in the Neuromancer trilogy.
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#6Toxicity in gaming + virtual communities (particularly against women) seems to be an issue that no company has a great grasp on. I recently gave Fortnite a try and ended up turning chat off due to relentless abuse by someone that sounded like they were pretty young. It made me a bit sad - I met some of my best friends growing up online in irc channels playing CS, WoW, etc - not sure if I would be able to do so today.…
That article is really strange to me. On one hand, he's probably 100% right. There's no other way to avoid rumors and jokes like that. On the other hand, that's a completely unacceptable excuse to bar women from something. Can someone refuse to hire a female secretary out of respect for their wife?
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#7Toxicity in gaming + virtual communities (particularly against women) seems to be an issue that no company has a great grasp on. I recently gave Fortnite a try and ended up turning chat off due to relentless abuse by someone that sounded like they were pretty young. It made me a bit sad - I met some of my best friends growing up online in irc channels playing CS, WoW, etc - not sure if I would be able to do so today.…
That article is really strange to me. On one hand, he's probably 100% right. There's no other way to avoid rumors and jokes like that. On the other hand, that's a completely unacceptable excuse to bar women from something. Can someone refuse to hire a female secretary out of respect for their wife?
That's a dumb analogy and bordering on being disingenuous. He's not barring women from something...you know that. And the people that he plays with are not his employees. You know that too.
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#8Toxicity in gaming + virtual communities (particularly against women) seems to be an issue that no company has a great grasp on. I recently gave Fortnite a try and ended up turning chat off due to relentless abuse by someone that sounded like they were pretty young. It made me a bit sad - I met some of my best friends growing up online in irc channels playing CS, WoW, etc - not sure if I would be able to do so today.…
That article is really strange to me. On one hand, he's probably 100% right. There's no other way to avoid rumors and jokes like that. On the other hand, that's a completely unacceptable excuse to bar women from something. Can someone refuse to hire a female secretary out of respect for their wife?
Title IX now applies to my twitch stream?
Jumping off the cliff there
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
That article is really strange to me. On one hand, he's probably 100% right. There's no other way to avoid rumors and jokes like that. On the other hand, that's a completely unacceptable excuse to bar women from something. Can someone refuse to hire a female secretary out of respect for their wife?
That's a dumb analogy and bordering on being disingenuous. He's not barring women from something...you know that. And the people that he plays with are not his employees. You know that too.
Getting to stream with Ninja would have a large, direct effect on their income, not to mention the promotional aspect.
But sure, lets instead imagine a male-only social club that directly promotes the business and career interests of it's members. That would get shut down real fast.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a dumb analogy and bordering on being disingenuous. He's not barring women from something...you know that. And the people that he plays with are not his employees. You know that too.
Getting to stream with Ninja would have a large, direct effect on their income, not to mention the promotional aspect. But sure, lets instead imagine a male-only social club that directly promotes the business and career interests of it's members. That would get shut down real fast.
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