Ninja criticizes streamers who \u201chate\u201d on games constantly Mixer streaming sensation, Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins, has called out content creators and influencers for shaming video games and supporting a \u201crage culture\u201d alongside explaining why it needs to stop. The video games industry is booming and bigger than ever. However, that doesn\u2019t stop plenty of people from far and wide critiquing their game, including some of the biggest personalities, such as influencers and content creators. While their efforts are often a plea for the developers behind said video game to fix an issue, the respective size of their platform (i.e., following) can amplify an issue tenfold. With that in-mind, Ninja has called for a more positive outlook when attempting to provide feedback on a video game. After a heated online engagement, Brett \u2018dakotaz\u2019 Hoffman hit out at Ninja after being called out by the Mixer star for criticizing Fortnite in a Tweet. Given that Blevins has been directed to \u2018stay in his lane\u2019 by Hoffman, the Mixer star has responded with a full-length Twitter video to \u201cclear [his] opinions\u201d on the statements which he has made \u201cabout people who are negative towards video games.\u201d The 28-year-old opened by stating: \u201cI don\u2019t think that a lot of content creators, I don\u2019t think a lot of influencers realize the power that they have and honestly, the influence that they have\u2026\u201d Please watch \u2014 Ninja (@Ninja) December 21, 2019 Regardless of the game in question, Ninja explained that there are \u201cpositive ways to go about expressing your opinion,\u201d while drawing a comparison to how some influencers may utilize their platforms (such as Instagram or Twitter) to post their negative thoughts which could be taken out of context. \u201cWhen you take the time to go out of your way to post on social media and without full context of really explaining what you don\u2019t like about something. For example, just saying \u2018oh, the game \u2018effing\u2019 sucks, Tweet it out\u2026 Boom, it\u2019s only hurting you\u2026 It doesn\u2019t help anyone.\u201d Blevins then went on the imply that \u201cnothing good happens\u201d when negative comments are directed at a game that essentially supports their career, aside from potentially getting more interactions on their social media. \u201cSince we live in a rage culture where everyone wants to hop on board negative sh*t, you just get a bunch of retweets and likes,\u201d Ninja clarified. This comes as the Mixer streamer probed comments made by Turner \u2018Tfue\u2019 Tenney, which hurled hate towards Fortnite \u2014 as Tenney labeled it a \u201cdying\u201d game. Ninja also gained the attention of Modern Warfare developers, following a Tweet that questioned the changes made to the fan-favored game mode, Gunfight. While influencers will likely continue to vent their frustrations regarding a specific issue in a game, Blevins will be hoping that his effort won\u2019t be in vain, and that streamers will seek to use their platforms to spread positivity as opposed to hating on a video game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja criticizes streamers who \u201chate\u201d on games constantly Mixer streaming sensation, Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins, has called out content creators and influencers for shaming video games and supporting a \u201crage culture\u201d alongside explaining why it needs to stop. The video games industry is booming and bigger than ever. However, that doesn\u2019t stop plenty of people from […]<\/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-56547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56547","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=56547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}