Ninja blasts the US President for blaming mass shootings on video games NinjaPopular streamer Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2018 Blevins took a shot at U.S. President\u2019s claims that video games glorify violence in a video on August 25. Ninja is one of the most well-known streamers in the world, even after leaving Twitch for the Microsoft-owned Mixer streaming platform at the beginning of August. The move came around the same time as several tragic mass shootings in the U.S. \u2013 and the condemnation of video games as part of the problem by the President. \u201cWe must stop the glorification of violence in our society,\u201d the President said. \u201cThis includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace.\u201d What did Ninja have to say? The President\u2019s comments have drawn a lot of criticism from across the video game industry \u2013 which has plenty of research that it can point to which shows no direct link between video games and violence. When asked what he thought about the claim in the video provided by TMZ on August 25, Ninja seemed annoyed at the idea \u2013 only responding \u201ccome on\u201d at first. \u201cCome on, man,\u201d the streamer responded.\u201dHave you seen Minecraft? What\u2019s violent about Minecraft bro? Nothing man.\u201d \u201cViolence\u2026 Violence is not video games,\u201d Ninja continued. \u201cThat\u2019s just how it is man.\u201d Ninja\u2019s comments aren\u2019t too different from what other online personalities have said about the subject, but this could mean the star could find himself on the receiving end of a classic tweet if the President\u2019s past reaction to backlash by big-name celebs is anything to go by. Ninja is one of the biggest names in video games right now. Ninja\u2019s not alone Ninja is far from the only personality to speak out about the President\u2019s comments \u2013 Twitch streamer Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2018 Anys addressed the fury from video game players about the president\u2019s remarks while reading a tweet from esports insider Rod \u2018Slasher\u2019 Breslau. \u201cOhhhh, and you know what\u2019s kinda troll too? That like, we\u2019ve let him say and get away with so much shit,\u201d She said. \u201cAnd then he attacks\u2026 he attacks video games and we\u2019re like \u201cRACISM! I can allow that! But video games? Uh-uh-uh!’\u201d Pokimane thinks there\u2019s plenty to be upset with the US President over besides just video games.600 Now that Ninja has made his stance on the issue clear, one has to wonder about the chances of him drafting a Twitter reply to the streamer as this article is being written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja blasts the US President for blaming mass shootings on video games NinjaPopular streamer Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2018 Blevins took a shot at U.S. President\u2019s claims that video games glorify violence in a video on August 25. Ninja is one of the most well-known streamers in the world, even after leaving Twitch for the Microsoft-owned Mixer streaming […]<\/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-56529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56529","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=56529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}