Ludwig lets YouTube viewers decide name for his new cat and instantly regrets it YouTube: LudwigYouTube streamer Ludwig Ahgren has made a rookie error by allowing viewers in chat to throw prospective names at him for his brand new kitten, with \u2018Cracker\u2019 winning a stream game as the name of choice. Naming anything can be an auspicious affair, nominative determinism aside, finding the perfect title for a pet needs to fulfill the dual purpose of being fun to say and accurate to the personality of the animal. Skipping the hard yards for a (frankly adorable) new cat, Ludwig threw naming duties at his chat during a May 16 stream. Quickly running into the well-documented issue of letting the internet name anything, a series of inappropriate names instantly dominated the decision-making. Sifting through them, Ludwig picked out all the prospective names and chucked them into a game of marbles. With named marbles racing to the bottom of a series of tracks, this was a fair, unbiased way for one name to come out on top. With \u2018Cracker\u2019 winning the tournament, however, Ludwig visibly regretted his choice to place naming power in the hands of the internet. With the \u2018cracker\u2019 controversy dominating conversations on Twitch less than 6 months ago, as Hasan, Bruce Ray, and Froste all got hit with bans for using a \u2018racially charged\u2019 term, the name was not an ideal choice for the streamer to have. Despite the name Cracker winning the marbles tournament, Ludwig tried to avoid the name by then throwing a poll up between \u2018Coots\u2019 and Cracker as name choices for the fresh feline. Coots ended up winning the poll by 54% of the votes to Crackers 46%. In response to calls from chat that this was a scam, and backing the name Cracker after its Marbles win, Ahgren pulled up a Microsoft Paint window, drawing three names for the cat to choose itself. With \u2018Cracker\u2019, \u2018Marbles\u2019, and \u2018Coots\u2019 on screen, the cat instantly started pawing at Cracker. The cat\u2019s dedication to the controversial name led Ludwig to declare \u201cThis cat\u2019s a problem. For me, for society.\u201d Throwing a reference at Twitch\u2019s hardline bans over the use of the term, Ludwig called his partner and Twitch streamer QTCinderella up, before lamenting: \u201cHow do I break the news to QT? She\u2019s a Twitch streamer.\u201d In conversation with QT where she outright rejected the name, Ludwig asked: \u201cIs it because it\u2019s problematic?\u201d to receive the succinct response from QT: \u201cNo, it\u2019s because it\u2019s a stupid-ass name.\u201d Finding no answer to his nomenclature problem, the streamer ended his livestream with a full screen of the unnamed cat taking a nap, signing off with:\u201dSay goodbye to Marbles, or Coots, or Cracker.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ludwig lets YouTube viewers decide name for his new cat and instantly regrets it YouTube: LudwigYouTube streamer Ludwig Ahgren has made a rookie error by allowing viewers in chat to throw prospective names at him for his brand new kitten, with \u2018Cracker\u2019 winning a stream game as the name of choice. Naming anything can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}