Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, still the most well-known crossover sensation in the streaming world years after the peak of its relevance, it seems that he is getting a little tired of all his actions being over scrutinized by millions of people all the time.
Inside a new profile by O New York Times which, of course, started with the necessary reference to an irrelevant video game that the author played in his youth (Goldeneye, in this case), Blevins spoke on a wide range of subjects. They were unified by a single thread: He is tired of all the shit that viewers say to him and about him.
Here, for example, is Blevins on his return to Twitch after Microsoft’s money machine briefly attracted him to streaming platform now extinct Mixer:
“When we came back from Mixer, I knew that I would no longer be the biggest streamer in terms of viewers. You are not streamer # 1, leave, come back and you will be # 1 again. I get people on my chat and they say, ‘You’re falling. I LAUGHED A LOT. Good mixer movement, man. The Mixer movement was intelligent. I don’t regret anything I did. I could teach all these kids talking [expletive], but when you answer them, they say, ‘He said my name!’ Their name is 69fartsniffer, and you read their name, and their next comment after they roast you is they are laughing like a little girl. Like, ‘You noticed me!’ It’s the worst. “
Here, he’s talking about young viewers and, er, kind of contradicting your own previous position in heated moments of the player:
“Do you want to know who your son is? Listen to him when he’s playing video games when he thinks you’re not. Here’s another thing: how does a white child know he has white privileges if his parents never teach him or don’t talk about racism? If they are playing and their first interaction with racism is one of their friends saying the word with N and they have no idea what it is – what if it was in my stream? Is it my job to have this conversation with this boy? No, because the first thing that crosses my mind is, ‘This kid is doing this on purpose to trick me’. If someone says racial injury on someone else’s channel, it can potentially ban the streamer. It’s horrible, but it’s the first thing I think. “
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And he seems very sick of hearing about your own stance on not flowing with women– a bad impression, he is walked back to some degree in the years that followed, but not entirely.
“It was the accusations that made me say that about the players. I was like, I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure no one can start a rumor or make clickbait videos on YouTube: ‘Ninja has been playing a lot with this person lately. They are flirting. Here’s a clip. ‘Do you know how to make it ever happen? You don’t let that happen! This is what was going through my head. I still don’t spend a lot of time alone with a woman, in general, if you’re married. I mean, they could be your best friends, that’s totally cool. But if I start playing randomly with a woman that nobody knows, people will start talking. So if I I am I’m going to play with players, I do it with a large group, so it’s not that one-on-one interaction. “
Extremely not entirely.
“Of course, a guy and a girl can be friends without getting close. But it’s like a temptation, man. Actually, I don’t like that word, because I have control over myself and 100 percent respect for my relationship, but … I don’t know how to say it. I know that people will potentially understand this now, ‘Oh, he can’t trust himself, blah blah blah. ‘ No, dude. But when you are no longer ‘Joe’, who can have a drink with your co-worker and nobody gives a [expletive]”I don’t have that luxury.” “
Perhaps one day Blevins will straighten out his positions on his passivity when it comes to calling young viewers on racism and the active role he is playing in spreading backward views on women. Today it doesn’t seem to be that day.
In good news, Blevins, a self-described “man of ideas”, certainly has some ideas. Inspired by his days as a professional gamer who had to drive for more than 8 hours at a time, he developed a new product.
“What happens on a long trip? You get cold and it’s like: I’m freezing! I’m tired! “He said.” Well, you turn up the heat and it gets really hot. Now you’re hot or falling asleep, but you don’t want the window down either, because what if it’s freezing outside or if it’s too noisy with the window down? So it’s right here: little cool strips that you put under your eyes to open the windows and turn on the heating. That would be good for truck drivers. Man: relaxing strips. “