Let’s call his parents.” But it all comes down to parenting. It would be awesome if when someone said something threatening, you could be like, “Let me look up this dude’s gamer tag on this website” - if the law could do this, not a normal person - and then boom: “It’s Jimmy. Your information and data are precious and should remain private, but it sucks that there are kids who can say racist things and be incredibly aggressive and threatening to women online and have zero repercussions. They say what they want and can get away with it. Is that kind of stuff just a part of gaming that you’ve resigned yourself to? Could it be mitigated somehow? I don’t think it’s gaming. I could teach all these kids talking, but when you reply to them, they’re like, “He said my name!” Their name is 69fartsniffer, and you read their name, and their next comment after they roasted you is them giggling like a little schoolgirl. Good Mixer move, man.” The Mixer move was smart. I get people coming in my chat, and they’re like: “You’re falling off. 1 streamer, leave, come back and you’re No. Like, for example, when we came back from Mixer, I knew that I wasn’t going to be the biggest streamer in terms of viewers anymore. If I didn’t have my wife and my family to talk to - everyone’s like, “Don’t listen to what people say.” All right, but when you’re reading “You suck ” 20 times in a chat, it’s going to get in your head. You have to be the most sure person on the planet if you’re going to get into this and not be completely torn apart. How do you think it affects you? Streaming makes you super self-conscious. It must have some effect on a person’s sense of self. I love video games too much for that.”īeing watched live for hours day after day by tens of thousands of people while you’re playing a video game is a deeply new and also deeply unnatural activity. “We’ve talked about fading out of that slowly. “Physically, sitting and streaming in one spot for eight hours a day, it’s a lot,” he says. ![]() ![]() ![]() And by the way, I fully admit to envying Blevins’s success would that esports and streaming had been such a big deal when I was probably the world’s best at GoldenEye 007 for Nintendo 64.) All that, and Blevins is wondering what’s next, or least how to achieve more while spending less time at his desk. (He has said he makes $500,000 a month from streaming. Largely on the back of his skills playing Fortnite, as well as his puckish commentary while he plays, the 29-year-old has amassed 16.5 million followers on Twitch, 14.4 million on Instagram, 6.5 million on Twitter, 24 million subscribers on YouTube and gobs of money. Tyler Blevins - Ninja, to video-game fans - is the closest thing gaming has to a crossover mainstream star.
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