I'm surprised I haven't seen anything appear on this site yet about this, cause everyone else seems to be making news stories about it left and right.
Our tale starts with a video from Jimmy Kimmel late night talk show about his opinion on let's players.
To save ya'll who don't feel like watching it, he pretty much just says the whole idea of let's plays are stupid and does a little skit asking "how far could it go?". Leading to a chain of five people watching each other watching things, with God almighty watching them saying "I've created a race of idiots!".
Gamers of course being gamers, were unable to just leave a civil comment of disagreement and a dislike(of which the video has a huge majority of). They decide to comment all the various "die from cancer", "die from being raped", and "die of cancer from being raped" comments. The comments were in such a volume that he was able to make two five [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJHhM5uKlg] minute [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9oZplyzDKc] long videos about all he has gotten.
Deciding that maybe fanning the flames was not a good idea, Kimmel decided on a something of an olive branch. He invited famous YouTubers, Markiplier and MissesMae to his show to tell him what's the deal with let's plays... as you can see from the painful video below, it went about as good as expected when someone calls your very line of work stupid, accuses you of using your fans as easy means of sex, and continues to make cracks at you and your fans for a solid six minutes.
The video above sadly ends without us hearing anything from Kimmel about if his opinion has changed. Either way, this olive branch succeeded somewhat, as the comments have become a lot more tame. But the dislike of Kimmel is still there. People have said that he used the "using fans for sex" joke because some YouTubers have been accused of doing that or just starting this whole thing out of jealousy that more people watch let's players than his show. I think Kimmel may have bitten of more than he could chew.
So, thoughts? Is Kimmel right that let's plays are stupid and a waste of time? Who's the asshole in this situation, the gamers or Kimmel? Is Kimmel's idea of gamers outdated and offensive? Do you think this is the end of this whole situation? Is Elfgore the most sexy Escapist user?
Our tale starts with a video from Jimmy Kimmel late night talk show about his opinion on let's players.
To save ya'll who don't feel like watching it, he pretty much just says the whole idea of let's plays are stupid and does a little skit asking "how far could it go?". Leading to a chain of five people watching each other watching things, with God almighty watching them saying "I've created a race of idiots!".
Gamers of course being gamers, were unable to just leave a civil comment of disagreement and a dislike(of which the video has a huge majority of). They decide to comment all the various "die from cancer", "die from being raped", and "die of cancer from being raped" comments. The comments were in such a volume that he was able to make two five [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJHhM5uKlg] minute [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9oZplyzDKc] long videos about all he has gotten.
Deciding that maybe fanning the flames was not a good idea, Kimmel decided on a something of an olive branch. He invited famous YouTubers, Markiplier and MissesMae to his show to tell him what's the deal with let's plays... as you can see from the painful video below, it went about as good as expected when someone calls your very line of work stupid, accuses you of using your fans as easy means of sex, and continues to make cracks at you and your fans for a solid six minutes.
The video above sadly ends without us hearing anything from Kimmel about if his opinion has changed. Either way, this olive branch succeeded somewhat, as the comments have become a lot more tame. But the dislike of Kimmel is still there. People have said that he used the "using fans for sex" joke because some YouTubers have been accused of doing that or just starting this whole thing out of jealousy that more people watch let's players than his show. I think Kimmel may have bitten of more than he could chew.
So, thoughts? Is Kimmel right that let's plays are stupid and a waste of time? Who's the asshole in this situation, the gamers or Kimmel? Is Kimmel's idea of gamers outdated and offensive? Do you think this is the end of this whole situation? Is Elfgore the most sexy Escapist user?