Honestly his twitter thing the other day about how if you're not angry it's because you don't care enough does not have much daylight between it and logic employed by abusers to justify their behavior; seeing this an an act of care and love is how these attitudes and behavior are perpetuated and normalized.
Agreed. The Twitter user isn't blaming Ninja solely for her nephew's behavior. She's saying that watching Ninja exacerbates bad habits this child has learned from his abusive father. You make a really good argument for why that would be the case.
I think it's fair to criticize Ninja and other similar content creators whose audiences primarily consist of kids yet these same creators do not demonstrate the emotional maturity to properly address and interact with their young audience
Stories like this are important to demonstrate the effects that exposure to streamer's and YT's unfiltered toxic attitudes can have on susceptible and impressionable youths.
This boy definitely has a lot more stuff going on in his life, but his guardians experimented with just this one variable of exposure to Ninja, and saw a big improvement in the boy's behaviour
And these streamers want to have their cake and eat it, too. All of the benefits from their platform but none of the responsibility.
Well take it off his switch, my son is eight and all his friends play fornite but he knows he's not allowed to. My son tells his friends parents he doesn't play fornite exactly like when we had one of his friends over they said they were vegan. We excepted it and moved on. So you can change things without passing the buck on to the nearest celebrity.
Okay? This kid is in a different situation. The Twitter user explained it in her thread. He's already got behavioral issues and the game provides him with some positive bonding experiences. She's decided that trying to take it away from him would cause more harm than good at this point. And in any case, by removing Ninja as an influence in her nephew's life, his behavior improved. So he can still play Fortnite AND control his aggressive outburts.
The people in those replies (and her to some extent) shitting on Ninja because he has a "bad streaming mentality" or whatever they're labeling it as are so out of touch. Why does everything/everyone have to be so PG? I'm not arguing that he's a good guy or that he has a good personalty, but blaming someone for doing something he's done for years, day in and day out, is so weird to me. Don't let your kid watch him... seems pretty simple. Weird it's taken those people this long to realize.
Things are PG because decades of psychological research have shown that children are easily influenced by what they see and they do not yet have the mental capacity to process the difference between reality and fiction to the extent adults do? I mean, it's not exactly a mystery.
TV and movie regulations take this into account. This is why we have rating systems. They don't try to dumb everything down to make things kid-friendly. They make it so that TV shows and movies (and games) can be clearly labeled so that parents know what to avoid showing their kids. YouTube doesn't have any of that. And Google seems to have no interest in seriously enforcing standards (aside from what they've done with YouTube Kids or whatever) because their algorithm that prioritizes engagement rakes in the case and they don't care about the negative consequences.
Ninja caters to kids. He also sets a bad example. He wants all of the advantage of his position while not dealing with any kind of responsibility he may have to his younger viewers. This person on Twitter did what a good parent (or aunt) does and banned him from watching Ninja. She's concerned about all of the parents who DON'T do this.
You're using too much logic in here and making too much sense.
Get out of here with that nonsense. Didn't you know.. streamers are the devil.
Already explained on the page before why this child is playing Fortnite. It wasn't the Twitter user's choice. She's trying to make the best of a bad situation. And she specifically says in a tweet that she does NOT think all streamers are inherently bad.
