Ninja explains why he believes FaZe Jarvis shouldn\u2019t be permabanned Fortnite, and suggested Epic Games should treat the situation differently because of \u201cfavoritism.\u201d The young FaZe Clan member was slapped with a permanent ban from the battle royale on November 3, following the star releasing a series of videos in which he showed off the use of an aimbot on his alt account. Many in the Fortnite community have already weighed in on whether or not Jarvis should accept his punishment, with many calling for the young star to be unbanned or have his sentence reduced considering it was his first-time offense. One major advocate for the banned FaZe player is Ninja, who leaped to Jarvis\u2019 defense when asked what he thought about the situation during his November 4 broadcast. Ninja said he believes Epic\u2019s punishment was heavyhanded, and that Jarvis should only be barred from playing the game for six months or a year. He also suggested the FaZe member should be treated \u201ca little differently\u201d to normal hacking cases considering Fortnite is his career. \u201cHe\u2019s still super young, so I think he\u2019s just a stupid kid making a stupid decision, and didn\u2019t really think about it,\u201d Ninja explained. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a tournament, wasn\u2019t a Cash Cup, it should be maybe a six-month ban from competitive. Permanent though?\u201d The Mixer megastar said that he \u201cliked the banhammer,\u201d and agreed that Jarvis deserves to be punished for showing off aimbots to hundreds of thousands of potential viewers, but said because the banned player was a content creator, he shouldn\u2019t be permanently barred. \u201cWithout your content creators, there\u2019s a negative impact on your game,\u201d he said. \u201cI think (what he did) was incredibly stupid, but a permanent ban is just silly. What else is he going to play? He has to transition over from one of the most popular games, and one that\u2019s made him skill-wise, and career-wise, and now he has to play another game.\u201d Ninja also doubled-down on the idea that Fortnite\u2019s content stars should have lesser bans to \u201ckids that hack just to hack,\u201d and reiterated that it had been Jarvis\u2019 very first offense when he uploaded the videos of the aimbot-games. \u201cThere\u2019s a difference between a content creator who has millions of subscribers, who then gets banned from what makes him money, and some kid who is just a piece of shit who has zero followings, zero money from gaming,\u201d Ninja continued. \u201cYou ban that kid, nothing happens. You ban Jarvis, the stakes are different, it should be handled differently\u2026 let\u2019s stop acting like there\u2019s no favoritism in the world, there is.\u201d For mobile users, the video segment begins at 0:28. Ninja compared his options to another high-profile banning case, which saw Tyler \u2018Tyler1\u2019 Steinkamp permanently banned from League of Legends for repeated toxic offenses. Riot Games employees were ordered to \u201cban on sight,\u201d leaving T1 hiding his accounts. \u201cHe could do what Tyler1 did, and only do stuff offline, and then upload videos,\u201d the Mixer star suggested. \u201cListen, I don\u2019t think anyone here should feel bad for him, I\u2019m not trying to emphasize. I\u2019m trying to be realistic. There should be favoritism for content creators.\u201d The Mixer star then pivoted to comparing Jarvis\u2019 ban to another controversy that had arisen on YouTube in recent times, when entertainment star Logan Paul escaped scot-free despite filming dead bodies in the Japanese suicide forest during one of his blogs. \u201cThere are people that have done worse things and haven\u2019t been banned,\u201d Ninja said. \u201cLogan Paul literally filmed someone hanging in a forest and his channel didn\u2019t get banned and he\u2019s been perfectly fine. In that aspect, he was a YouTuber, a big one, and he didn\u2019t get banned. YouTube decided that he was big enough to not get banned.\u201d Whether or not Epic will listen to Ninja remains to be seen, but he does hold a lot of pull in the Fortnite community considering how many followers he has on Mixer, and how much of a mainstream name he has become in the past few years. So far, Epic has yet to comment on the ban, both regarding its permanent nature, and whether there\u2019s a chance to appeal, but considering the community outcry following the banhammer crashing down, we can probably expect one soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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