Hayama Akito
Member
First of all sorry if my english sounds terrible. Also if some mod wants to move this thread to Gaming it's okay, but I prefer Off-Topic because I feel this is something more personal than anything.
You probably already know, but this 2017 has been a very, very bad year for JonTron. If you don't know about this, there is a GAF topic about this issue.
Good old Jim Sterling wrote about this topic in his site The Jimquisition. He says: "Keep all that in mind, and now remember that JonTron and PewDiePie are more relevant to a younger generation of people than Richard Gere will ever be (...) JonTron has a less titanic three million subscribers, but thats still an incredible amount of people watching and hes still more important to young audiences than many mainstream media sources now".
He is right... he is SO right.
I have a teen cousin who loves YouTube but mostly loves JonTron to death. I'm from Chile so english is not our language, but she loves videogames and JonTron so much she started to learn english when she was 10 thanks to his videos. She saw the Daikatana review with spanish subtitles made it by a fan in 2012 and she just exploded. I can't deny JonTron was fun at the time, I like his Banjo-Kazooie Nuts and Bolts review, so I was okay with this. I know JonTron is DEFINITELY not the best thing for a 10 years old, but I'm not her father.
She started to share her love for JonTron with her friends in school. She has a kind of innocent fanclub in her class. I'm pretty sure that her humor and taste in games were molded by this guy, specially because she loves retro games. She is 15 now and her english is pretty advanced for her age. I learned english thanks to videogames on the SNES era and I never had a proper english class at school (as you can see), so I feel kind of identified with her.
Today she came to my house and started to talk about the racist stuff. She shares her love for videogames with me because I'm the nerd of the family and her parents aren't very involved in her hobby honestly. She saw the Destiny debate, and she didn't understand too much about what they were talking about (there are some english words that she still doesn't understand well), but she was shocked because she understand that Jon was talking "ugly stuff" and people in the Destiny chat were mocking him.
I started to explain to her about the situation. It was hard... she of course understand what racism is and all that, but she was not ready for hear JonTron talking shit about race and white supremacy.
She started to cry. She cried a lot.
"Why he doesn't like people different to him"
"Why he hates people from his own country"
"Why he hates black people"
We are not from the US, so I tried to explain to her (in the most easiest way possible) the political situation of the country. Definitely something in her died today. It was a call to reality. She will talk about this in her class for sure tomorrow.
I feel so bad for her. I gave one of the most honest hugs in my life to her.
Honestly I just wanted to get that off my chest than anything else and I apologize for this messy and overdramatic thread. She of course will overcome this but fuck him. What an unpleasant moment.
You probably already know, but this 2017 has been a very, very bad year for JonTron. If you don't know about this, there is a GAF topic about this issue.
Good old Jim Sterling wrote about this topic in his site The Jimquisition. He says: "Keep all that in mind, and now remember that JonTron and PewDiePie are more relevant to a younger generation of people than Richard Gere will ever be (...) JonTron has a less titanic three million subscribers, but thats still an incredible amount of people watching and hes still more important to young audiences than many mainstream media sources now".
He is right... he is SO right.
I have a teen cousin who loves YouTube but mostly loves JonTron to death. I'm from Chile so english is not our language, but she loves videogames and JonTron so much she started to learn english when she was 10 thanks to his videos. She saw the Daikatana review with spanish subtitles made it by a fan in 2012 and she just exploded. I can't deny JonTron was fun at the time, I like his Banjo-Kazooie Nuts and Bolts review, so I was okay with this. I know JonTron is DEFINITELY not the best thing for a 10 years old, but I'm not her father.
She started to share her love for JonTron with her friends in school. She has a kind of innocent fanclub in her class. I'm pretty sure that her humor and taste in games were molded by this guy, specially because she loves retro games. She is 15 now and her english is pretty advanced for her age. I learned english thanks to videogames on the SNES era and I never had a proper english class at school (as you can see), so I feel kind of identified with her.
Today she came to my house and started to talk about the racist stuff. She shares her love for videogames with me because I'm the nerd of the family and her parents aren't very involved in her hobby honestly. She saw the Destiny debate, and she didn't understand too much about what they were talking about (there are some english words that she still doesn't understand well), but she was shocked because she understand that Jon was talking "ugly stuff" and people in the Destiny chat were mocking him.
I started to explain to her about the situation. It was hard... she of course understand what racism is and all that, but she was not ready for hear JonTron talking shit about race and white supremacy.
She started to cry. She cried a lot.
"Why he doesn't like people different to him"
"Why he hates people from his own country"
"Why he hates black people"
We are not from the US, so I tried to explain to her (in the most easiest way possible) the political situation of the country. Definitely something in her died today. It was a call to reality. She will talk about this in her class for sure tomorrow.
I feel so bad for her. I gave one of the most honest hugs in my life to her.
Honestly I just wanted to get that off my chest than anything else and I apologize for this messy and overdramatic thread. She of course will overcome this but fuck him. What an unpleasant moment.