Minecraft online, rife with real and potential nonces

[Brainwrong]

YouTube Personalities Use 'Minecraft' to Prey on Underage Fans | Motherboard

Like a new age BBC...

"...People in the industry knew that LionMaker preyed on his underage fans, said Jason Leisure, another Minecrafter and a former friend of LionMaker.

“Other YouTubers know about it and keep quiet just because they want to work with them and make money,” he told Motherboard via Skype. “What sickens me is the YouTubers that knew their friends were like this and kept quiet.”..."


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[SuperTortolano]

What happened to just collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards and swapping them with you mates :sadwalk:

 

[Braehead Cabbage]

YouTube Personalities Use 'Minecraft' to Prey on Underage Fans | Motherboard

Like a new age BBC...

"...People in the industry knew that LionMaker preyed on his underage fans, said Jason Leisure, another Minecrafter and a former friend of LionMaker.

“Other YouTubers know about it and keep quiet just because they want to work with them and make money,” he told Motherboard via Skype. “What sickens me is the YouTubers that knew their friends were like this and kept quiet.”..."


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This is worrying,I have 2 boys who are addicted to minecraft videos,Stampy is the one they watch but will need to see what else they watch

 

[Dub]

YouTube Personalities Use 'Minecraft' to Prey on Underage Fans | Motherboard

Like a new age BBC...

"...People in the industry knew that LionMaker preyed on his underage fans, said Jason Leisure, another Minecrafter and a former friend of LionMaker.

“Other YouTubers know about it and keep quiet just because they want to work with them and make money,” he told Motherboard via Skype. “What sickens me is the YouTubers that knew their friends were like this and kept quiet.”..."


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I'm finding difficulty in understanding this. Apart from the obvious kiddy fiddler aspect, do people actually just watch online as other people play a game? I'm not trying to minimise the thrust of the story but it beggars belief if they [kids] get enjoyment out of this in the first place.

 

[hibadelic]

I'm finding difficulty in understanding this. Apart from the obvious kiddy fiddler aspect, do people actually just watch online as other people play a game? I'm not trying to minimise the thrust of the story but it beggars belief if they [kids] get enjoyment out of this in the first place.

Says man who regularly watches other people play football ;-)

 

[Brainwrong]

This is worrying,I have 2 boys who are addicted to minecraft videos,Stampy is the one they watch but will need to see what else they watch

Yep, that's why I posted it. Pretty surprised about the predatory aspect of it all.


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[Dub]

Says man who regularly watches other people play football ;-)

Not quite the same IMO but I take your point.

 

[Brainwrong]

I'm finding difficulty in understanding this. Apart from the obvious kiddy fiddler aspect, do people actually just watch online as other people play a game? I'm not trying to minimise the thrust of the story but it beggars belief if they [kids] get enjoyment out of this in the first place.

Yep, I see my kids watching videos of folk playing games, I don't get it at all.

Saw them watching a video of two guys that were watching a video of a vine compilation and trying not to laugh.

Meta.


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[Braehead Cabbage]

I'm finding difficulty in understanding this. Apart from the obvious kiddy fiddler aspect, do people actually just watch online as other people play a game? I'm not trying to minimise the thrust of the story but it beggars belief if they [kids] get enjoyment out of this in the first place.

It's mental Dub,if they were allowed they would watch hours of videos of someone playing Minecraft!the guy they watch has made a fortune out of it and drew a 2.5k crowd at an appearanceon Dundee in November

 

[Dub]

Yep, I see my kids watching videos of folk playing games, I don't get it at all.

Saw them watching a video of two guys that were watching a video of a vine compilation and trying not to laugh.

Meta.


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It's mental Dub,if they were allowed they would watch hours of videos of someone playing Minecraft!the guy they watch has made a fortune out of it and drew a 2.5k crowd at an appearanceon Dundee in November

So, kids, having swapped playing outside for playing video games have now swapped playing video games for watching people playing video games [a generalisation I know. All kids aren't the same]. That's pretty fukked up.

 

[Braehead Cabbage]

So, kids, having swapped playing outside for playing video games have now swapped playing video games for watching people playing video games [a generalisation I know. All kids aren't the same]. That's pretty fukked up.

Speaking to other parents it's pretty wide spread,Google Stampy Longnose,the stats for his youtube channel are ridiculous!
We limit the boys time on their tablets but like tv its an easy electronic baby sitter and im pretty sure many a parent uses it as such.

The world's fecked

 

[egb_hibs]

Yep, I see my kids watching videos of folk playing games, I don't get it at all.

Saw them watching a video of two guys that were watching a video of a vine compilation and trying not to laugh.

Meta.


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Back in the day you used to get crowds watching maestros at the arcade machines - notably at Defender which was impossibly hard for most folk but in the hands of an adept was pinball wizard stuff - it's probably more like that than comparable to football?

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Based on my experience with my kids 'youtubers' are today's celebs for them. These guys are starting to make big bucks but I think it's only just started - they are far bigger than pop, tv or movie stars with kids.

 

[beefy]

Speaking to other parents it's pretty wide spread,Google Stampy Longnose,the stats for his youtube channel are ridiculous!
We limit the boys time on their tablets but like tv its an easy electronic baby sitter and im pretty sure many a parent uses it as such.

The world's fecked

"Get they heidfones oan now!" that's what i'm constantly saying to my niece & nephew.

That fuckin Stampy felly goes on and on and on... danniiR

 

[Dub]

Back in the day you used to get crowds watching maestros at the arcade machines - notably at Defender which was impossibly hard for most folk but in the hands of an adept was pinball wizard stuff - it's probably more like that than comparable to football?

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Based on my experience with my kids 'youtubers' are today's celebs for them. These guys are starting to make big bucks but I think it's only just started - they are far bigger than pop, tv or movie stars with kids.

I do recall playing galaxian at a shop in Gorgie - I think it was called Josef K - and I was quite decent at it. If you were up past 10 flags you would get a few folk looking over your shoulder at the game play. I had forgotten all about that until you mentioned it.

 

[Brainwrong]

Back in the day you used to get crowds watching maestros at the arcade machines - notably at Defender which was impossibly hard for most folk but in the hands of an adept was pinball wizard stuff - it's probably more like that than comparable to football?

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Based on my experience with my kids 'youtubers' are today's celebs for them. These guys are starting to make big bucks but I think it's only just started - they are far bigger than pop, tv or movie stars with kids.

Yep, totally agree re their celeb status. It's incredible and I doubt even vaguely predictable.

Mind working for Motorola and chatting with the product designers, they said no one predicted folk being so into texting. Apparently the engineers used to just use it to test the devices. Dunno if that's true of all phone companies, of course.

It's that whole weird thing where something seemingly utterly shan to the outsider's un-nuanced perspective totally blows up, so quick it just passed the naysayers by and firmly lodges itself in the current culture.

It's pretty interesting.


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[Dub]

Yep, totally agree re their celeb status. It's incredible and I doubt even vaguely predictable.

Mind working for Motorola and chatting with the product designers, they said no one predicted folk being so into texting. Apparently the engineers used to just use it to test the devices. Dunno if that's true of all phone companies, of course.

It's that whole weird thing where something seemingly utterly shan to the outsider's un-nuanced perspective totally blows up, so quick it just passed the naysayers by and firmly lodges itself in the current culture.

It's pretty interesting.


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I worked for a place called Veecom Systems in Montrose Terrace when texting came out on mobiles. Initially you could only text people in your same network and you were restricted to a few characters per text but it wasnt long before consumers were demanding that the text network be expanded. THe product designers probably didnt see the picture the marketing guys were looking at at the time.

 

[Braehead Cabbage]

"Get they heidfones oan now!" that's what i'm constantly saying to my niece & nephew.

That $#@!in Stampy felly goes on and on and on... danniiR

Would happily serve jail time for killing the ****!his laugh is the most annoying sound in the world!

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Based on my experience with my kids 'youtubers' are today's celebs for them. These guys are starting to make big bucks but I think it's only just started - they are far bigger than pop, tv or movie stars with kids.[/QUOTE

He's the equal of any pop star for primary kids!


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