During a recent Samsung event, Twitch megastar Tyler “Ninja” Blevins said he purposely avoids streaming with “female gamers.” The site’s number-one streamer said that he believes if he invited women on his channel, the gossip mill would immediately begin cranking out videos suggesting that Ninja is in romantic relationships with them.
On the one hand, he’s probably right about that. On the other hand, when you’re the most popular streamer on earth, everything you do has consequences.
I still remember when it was an accepted argument that gaming was an antisocial activity. "Go outside nerds," was the common style of refrain you'd hear on a school playground. It's the kind of argument that still gets trotted out today from people who have little experience of gaming, and even less appreciation for the complexity of games.
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Way to go Brian! You are definitely improving! You're nearly writing an eighth of an article now!
^ This.
His articles always consist of the following:
- 1/8 to 1/4 of the size of an article posted by any of the other "authors" on Kotaku
- Japan. Japan, Japan, Japan. Japan. About 95% of his articles consist of Japan or something Japan related, most of the time not even gaming related. I suppose that is okay because of "Culture Shock" but it would be great to see Culture Shock articles on countries other than Japan. You would think in Brian's world only 2 countries exist in the world, Australian and Japan.
Honestly, I think they should replace Brian Ashcraft with a more capable author.
He's an American living in Japan, what do you expect?
How about you guys apply for the job then, or go cry to mama
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