See , I don't think Ninja should have any responsibility when it comes to monitoring his attitude (within reason of course). He use to break up his streams into family friendly/adult, but i'm not sure if he does that anymore. Streaming is his job so he should maintain some type of professionalism, but he's his own boss in theory. If he wants to scream cuss words, and go baby-rage when he dies, more power to him.
If parents are against it, then they should restrict viewing habits. I don't want him to be someone he's not because a group of kids wondered into his stream. Getting mad and yelling in a video game doesn't make you a bad person. If kids are young enough to where they don't know right from wrong or that it's a game, then they probably shouldn't be visiting these places in the first place.
As
Zero315 pointed out, Ninja markets specifically to kids. So you saying that he can do whatever he wants because he's his own boss still doesn't address the issue that a large part of his audience are kids. As people in this thread have already pointed out, YouTube is the wild west compared to TV and other media content that kids have access to. Kids are easily influenced. Of course they're going to pick up on Ninja's bad behaviors. So you can sit there and say that he can do whatever he wants, but that doesn't absolve Ninja of his responsibility to younger viewers that he makes money off of (as shown earlier on this page).
A group of kids didn't wander into his stream. He markets to kids. How do you reconcile the fact that Ninja markets to kids AND makes money from them with your claim that he also shouldn't be responsible for the content he presents to kids?
Well, the aunt in this case removed Ninja as an influence from this kid's life and his behavior improved. So... good parenting. But that doesn't change the fact that Ninja is a bad influence.
Simply put, YouTube is the wild fucking west. That is the big difference with kids consuming it these days. There is no comparison to kids 20-30 years ago consuming TV instead. Literally the only comparison is they are consuming something. What they are consuming is 2 wildly different mediums. One that was fairly regulated and only a very small percentage had access to, and one where any fucking idiot can post content. It is such a paradigm shift it is insane.
The fact that people in this thread refuse to acknowledge this fact is depressing.
Has anyone even confirmed this story is even true it sure doesn't sound like it to me. It sounds more like someone on Twitter trying to get browny points and followers. Has this mother /aunt followed up with any proof of her claims?
Not like that will stop the huge hate boner this place has with ninja.
I mean, we can't necessarily verify the truth of everything online these days. Looking at this woman's other tweets, she's an academic that studies games on some level. She did mention getting more followers, but it also seemed to be expressed with mixed excitement and dread (a reaction a lot of people have when a post of theirs unexpectedly goes viral).
Brownie points? That sounds an awful lot like "virtue signaling." Tell me, what does this Twitter user have to gain in making up a story about her nephew? Getting on the hate train for Ninja just gets her negative attention. Maybe clout isn't the most important thing to everyone out there?
People can criticize Ninja without having a hate boner for him.
