twitch superstar ninja has responded to an enormous backlash after he reported
another forum night player for stream sniping welcome to inform overload I'm
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and we make them more entertaining the phenomenon and fortnight known as stream
snipers is changing the playing field for popular live streams for those of
you who don't know what this is allow me to explain the stream sniper is the
practice of playing a game against the streamer while watching their broadcast
to gain an advantage so basically screen picking taken to the
next level this is a big topic of controversy especially involving the
popular streamer known as ninja who recently reported someone for stream
sniping which resulted in a player being banned until an investigation by epic
proved him to be innocent however this did take some time to clear the players
name and in the meantime ninja felt the fury of what feels like the entire
fortnight community on top of him the incident occurred when ninja was killed
by another player and as he was celebrating the win they believed he was
stream sniping the gamer in question is known as ic5 and the controversy came
down to that emote celebration its timing was almost too perfect at the
time ninja and dr. Lupo were in the game and both had been killed by ic5 when dr.
Lupo asked ic5 to do the emo dance trying to bait a stream sniper to
confirm that he was watching their stream ic5 did just that what they
didn't know was that ic5 was just celebrating his win over the two players
he then posted this on Twitter attempting to clear his name by
directing an at ninja and dr. Lupo he states that he would upload the video
from his end to show that he was only doing the dance to impress the six
people that were watching him take them both out the original tweet garnered
three thousand likes and over 388 retweets it also brought the two
streamers into the comment section to have a dialogue ninja then responded by
saying talk about timing when he emoted when Ben asked
odds were in my favor but I guess I was wrong good thing epic just investigates
when I question a player and not ban them immediately this response was good
enough for some for Knight fans to forgive him but for ic5 it's just
angered him further I see five Ben responded saying
I don't understand why you raged called me an idiot and then said you were going
to try and get me banned I know that you can get me banned because of how much
power you have within epoch you are the face of fortnight now ninja has assumed
that this comment warranted enough of an apology to the gamer but many don't
think so he even went on to blame alcohol for the actions and words about
the accused stream sniper following that with calling people too sensitive and
then leaving the comment section but what do you guys and gals think about
this should ninja have to put out a public apology for reporting people with
no evidence or should everyone just calm down because it's only a game the
backlash on ninja didn't just exist on Twitter either most of his critics took
to Reddit and started a number of threads some with more than 44,000
upvotes people were really starting to worry
that because Ninja is one of the top fortnight users that he would be working
with epic to ban people whenever he sees fit this is a rumor that ninja
constantly denies stating the epic investigates all claims and is standing
within the company has nothing to do with their final decisions epic games
actually commented on reddit by saying that ninjas report had been investigated
by IC 5 had been cleared due to the lack of evidence which also poses another
issue with stream sniping the ability to properly prove when people are actually
doing this is an issue it's easier to point out when gamers are using an
aimbot and move to direct locations but unfortunately other users will always be
thrown into the mix even if they're just playing normally with that let's
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