Ninja's flossing ends in bloody gums and unimpressed fans
Ninja's flossing didn't quite get the Times Square crowds in New York moving.
Streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins took a break from saying the N-word and other questionable activities during his special New Year's Eve countdown celebration to try and get the crowds dancing.
Yes, despite his totally flat personality and boring presence, Ninja was chosen as a New Year's Eve hype man by way of Red Bull, possibly a decision made by the same people who keep trotting Jenny McCarthy out year after year despite seeing how bad of a decision it is every time we wrap up another year of our lives.
Ninja broke out in a flossing frenzy when addressing the crowd at his event, who hadn't been very vocal or excited to begin with, and he thought he'd get the 1 million New Yorkers in on some dancing too.
"I wanna see some movement! I'm not seeing enough movement!" Ninja exclaimed while facing a nearly completely stationary crowd. "Oh my God," he laughed, clearly trying to play off the enormous fail that unfolded right in front of his eyes.
On the main stage of Times Sq, Ninja's goal of getting one million New Yorkers to do the floss dance comes just short by 999,995 pic.twitter.com/3Fgvui2MAB
— Rod Breslau (@Slasher) January 1, 2019
True, the crowd was standing in the middle of the pouring rain beneath a video game streamer doing a dance he wasn't even particularly good at. Many of the people celebrating New Year's Eve probably weren't looking to hang out with a guy who's normally in his cozy house streaming a video game, either. Ninja tried to blame the rain too, though. We have a sneaking suspicion it wasn't the rain that kept New Yorkers from flossing.
Word of advice
— Ninja (@Ninja) January 1, 2019
Dont try to get 1 million New Yorkers to dance in the rain on new years. Trust me.
You may recognize "flossing" as one of Fortnite's popular in-game emotes, but it started out as a reference to the "Backpack Kid's" dance that grew in popularity after he performed his weird dance with Katy Perry during a performance. He's since sued Fortnite over royalties and using the dance without his permission, but that's a whole other story, made even more interesting since it wasn't even his dance to start with.
So, we've already said goodbye to 2018 – hopefully we'll be saying goodbye to flossing next.
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replyBrittany Vincent posted a new article, Ninja's flossing ends in bloody gums and unimpressed fans
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It's really a matter Of calling him out on a "Cash In". I don't have a problem with Ninja or Fortnite, However we're Having a clear OVER-SATURATION of both is what i'm getting tired of. Playing him 200k to do a 12 hour stream to Promote RED BULL DRINKS, isn't doing anything GOOD for gaming. He's also not really doing anything for gaming other than capitalizing off it. Sure, i mean i get it, Make that money, but sometimes it's okay to say no, hell sometimes it might even be better to.
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“We’re having a clear oversaturation”
Says who? Why is it oversaturation? Kids and teens fucking love it. He’s not really hurting anyone by doing this, and people find it entertaining.
I’m not a huge fan of the guys streaming, but a lot of his “critics” in the gaming press frequently come off as jealous, more than anything.-
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Your typos make me sad.
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Who said I didn’t see it? You know what else I see a lot of? Anything that’s popular to the general public. What makes it oversaturated? You never answered that. If he did one less special stream, would he then be adequately saturated? Two less? Took an extra day off every week?
Also it’s bizarre that you’re calling him oversaturated, and yet I see an article or chatty thread about him on this website at least once a week. If you think he’s too prevalent, then stop covering him. He gets coverage because he’s popular, but then the people who cover him say he’s getting too much coverage?
And the jealousy argument comes from “He should stop doing stuff for money,” and yet no one gives a reason why. There’s never any argument as to why he should stop or slow down, just that he definitely should. -
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Most engagement we’ve seen all day.
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Are you gonna quit Shacknews over this dumb post?
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No, but this happens every-so-often. Nothing changes.
Sometimes we take risks with articles, sometimes they don’t work.
One thing I have proven over my years here is the ability to tweak our strategy. If this kind of content actually threatens our long-term growth, I will squash it.-
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Not daring him to do anything. Was legitimately asking a question.
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Maulla’s entitled whiny NOT MY SHACKNEWS replies are pretty much worse than anything Brittany said in the article. Shitting on my staff is not cool. Disagree sure. Disrespect and you will inevitably get the banhammer.
Threadshitting and personal attacks are bannable.-
maulla is innocent!
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oh wait nm.
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Actually my bad, my Apple article thread blew up.
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What is the purpose of the article?
To remind people of a previous negative event?
To attack his “flat personality and boring presence?”
To make fun of him for a failed marketing stunt?
Or, to just make yourself and the site look bad by choosing “all of the above.”
This isn’t you trying to be a defender of minorities and explain why he’s a bad person. It’s a poorly written excuse to capitalize on a shitty attempt at marketing.
If you want to make a worthwhile statement about the guy and why you think he’s a bad influence, then write something better.
This is garbage.-
I think I wouldn’t have tore my MCL on that reaction if this article even had a hint of constructive criticism. It was just blatant click bait. What I saw of the stream was extremely toned down from old crazy spaz Ninja. Yea it’s marketing, dude got paid. More power to him. He needs to get it all in the bank while he can.
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So you or none of your friends have ever dropped the soft-A n-word while listening to rap?
I hope if they did you stopped talking to them immediately and then made a post shunning them on facebook.-
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You guys are saints. Continue on your saintly journey.
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The bar for being a saint is certainly lower than I recall.
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Original definition was synonymous with Christian, and there are supposedly 2 billion of them. Given how shitty the average person is that bar seems pretty low.
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You understand that Hip Hop and Rap are international phenomenons, right? People are going to say the words that are in the music, that's just what happens. It doesn't mean they're bad people, it just means they don't really understand or care to understand the cultural nuances of when it's ok to say it. It's really the micro-est of microagressions.
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If you think it's ok for rappers to say it, then in fact, you also believe that statement.
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That's a gross oversimplification of what I'm saying. Context matters is what I'm saying. And given the context in which Ninja said it, phrases like "Streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins took a break from saying the N-word and other questionable activities" are a little extreme.
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no.
fuck no. i can't even remember saying that word.
i can't imagine a scenario where i'd need to say it to anyone let alone to millions.-
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"Need to say it"... that's a weird way to put it.
Well you've definitely said it in your head, if you're ever listened to more than a little bit of rap music then played the lyrics back in your head later. That's only slightly less worse than what Ninja did, in my opinion. It's such a fucking non-issue.-
That's a really weird stance to take.
"Who hasn't said the n-word?"
"Uh, we haven't."
"Bullshit! You obviously have, in your mind!"
okay..can't really counter that mind reading argument.-
My point is that he said it in the context of ad-libbing rap lyrics. Not a big deal, doesn't mean he's a terrible person, so it's not something we need to dig up everytime we talk about him. Context very much matters when you accuse somebody of using the n-word.
For example, there are very different degrees of severity between how Pewdiepie used it and how Ninja used it.-
Meanwhile I'm here wondering how someone can feel comfortable saying it out loud at all in any context. Even in contexts where it might be appropriate, like discussing the word itself with no malice intended, I still don't say it because if I'm overheard and misinterpreted that's simply not worth dealing with. I certainly wouldn't belt it out while singing to an audience.
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Saying things in your head is different from saying them out loud, to an audience. Why do you need to be told this?
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USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST
Personal attack combined with threadshitting elsewhere in this article thread.
Have a nice night, Shacknews!-
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You didn’t break any rules.
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note, a ban isn't a perma
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He was replying directly to staff members.
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This was a shameful response.
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personal attack?
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I’m not sure how that would work as a top ten list, though.
Is insinuating that shacknews staff isn't capable of writing more than a listicle.-
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I'm so out of touch that I actually thought he was throwing floss to everyone in the audience and encouraging them to use it...
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His buddies joked that at the Twitch roast his audience couldn’t get in the theater because it was 17+. Dude might not be everyone’s cup of tea but he’s out in the mainstream media promoting gaming, streaming, and all that with actually a bit of intelligence and branding to get kids hooked in.
The entire tone of this article came off as jealous.
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Barney sucked.
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I’m not a huge fan of his, but I did periodically watch him play pubg and h1z1 before he blew up with fortnite. As grating and entitled as I think he can be, I do think that he has done a good job adjusting to the audience that fortnite brought him.
The dude isn’t a role model by any measure, but he’s doing mostly the right things to keep his viewer base happy.
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I don't watch Ninja, I don't pay much attention to Ninja, to me he's just another annoying kid receiving wayyyy too much money for doing what he does but I am most certainly NOT his target audience. His stream is not for me, it's for younger people, and that's just the way it is. It's like when my parents HATED the bands I listened to when I was growing up, it's just not meant for them.
I do find it amusing that they are trying to shoehorn him into a larger wider audience and the reaction was just what I expected, a giant MEH. -
Hhahaha, I had to read the article to see what all the commotion was about... and yeah, that was shameful.
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We aren’t running ads.
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Yeah, probably some google shits and other legacy trash. Thanks for unblocking either way!
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Person and their name gets viewers, companies badly try to utilize this. Repeat ad nauseam. Simple as that.
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But he played fortnite with drake!
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I see no problem here, nice article.
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My man.
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I think you either gotta commit to writing (imo, trashy) hit pieces like this regularly or don't do it at all and commit to a higher standard.
This piece right here reeks of "Hey, people are Googling about Ninja, let's get in on that sweet sweet SEO"
Which I suppose is fine if that's the road you want to take. But it feels like shack has a little bit of an identity crisis where it can't decide if it wants to be serious or it wants to be tabloid
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I’m going to have to agree with some of the folks here. While the overall goal of the reporting in the article is spot on for the site, there is a lot of personal opinion thrown in there. It’s obvious the author doesn’t like Ninja - but guess what, a lot of people do. So saying ‘Yes, despite his totally flat personality and boring presence,’ is pretty much all the proof that there was bias applied before the article was written. Which is fine - but then getting angry and offended when people question the content and intention of reporting is petty.
If you want to write stuff like this on shack, that’s fine. I think it should come with an editorial tag instead of a news tag. And make it a pure opinion piece vs. the veil of news with personal attacks.
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I dont think a guy who says the n word while trying to rap, and apologized immediately after, should be forever labelled as "The guy who said the n word"
shit happens, you're on stream, you're trying to show off your rapping skills, you get the worst freudian slip. Ninja listens to a lot of rap of course hes going to accidentally say it in this context. this isnt like pewdiepie who used it as an insult -
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It's too bad that the broken nature of the business of being a successful website requires articles like this, at least for now. I don't have any particular problem with this and I don't care about the subject but I'm sure Brittany and the rest of the staff would rather be writing something else. I hope it changes for the better sooner rather than later.
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So far I've stayed out of these, but fuck it. I've given Shack plenty of praise - including for editorial content - so it's only fair I say it like I see it when I don't like what I see. To me, honest communication a sign of respect both ways, so please don't ban me.
The article is a very tasteless personal attack and people getting banned for saying so is ugly.
I do not mean this as a personal attack to anyone. If you are publishing content online you have to be able to take people being honest about it.
If page views are your only concern and you're willing to put out anything for them, then say so. Publishing an article like this and then banning people for calling you out for it is not a sign of anything good.
What little I've seen of Ninja, I dislike. I don't have a problem with anyone disliking him as well. But hit pieces like these are shit content.-
This is basically my thoughts/opinions.
I've been meaning to take a break anyways but I ended my Twitch sub after this article. I like a lot of the content here, this is just not worthwhile content IMHO. I've been meaning to support one of my local newspapers/news sites, I guess I'll take the freed up dollars to do so. -
As far as I can tell nobody has been banned for criticism, only for threadshitting and personal attacks.
It is fine to disagree with the bans, but I am not sure there is a need to overreact.
Of course anytime banning is involved on any site on the internet it is easy to think there is some sort of censorship going on.
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Yall need Jesus up in this thread.
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Hey, what's going on in this thread.... https://i.imgur.com/D0muhyi.gif
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