Yes this is the title of Jake and Rawkus’s today show interview.
are you being sarcastic?? bc it seems like you didn't know for sure based on the first post 4Head
i actually thought i was being informative to one of the basement dwellers the interviewer woman talked about towards the end of the clip
would also explain the social ineptness of telling someone to kill themselves over not knowing about videogames
The more I think about it, the only aspect that really baffles me, is the "kid" part, is not like in classic sports players are grandpas.
LeBron James was drafted in the NBA when he was 19, same as The Big Ticket (that I think someone mentioned).
Talented football (soccer) players start playing in main teams at top level at ages around 16-17.
What makes an OW player a kid compared to LeBron James... ok he's a bad example considering he "looked 30" even when he was drafted, but eh.
I think this is definitely a deeper issue then this explanation will explain, but Lebron Jame's was also like 6' 8" and 220 lbs when he entered the NBA so it was easy for people to think of him as something other than a kid. There are obviously some deeper things going on there with how American's view Black youth as anything but, BUT! We won't get into that here lol.
Also, I think people tend to infantilize e-sports athletes because in a lot of people's eyes; video games = childish. It's definitely an issue with the medium of games in general, and probably the biggest issue facing e-sports.
Getting people in front of cameras to do pretty standard and mature interviews like this is good though! E-sports has definitely made huge strides in terms of being taken seriously compared to even just five years ago. It still is a relatively young filed when you compare it to other major sports which have been around for tens to hundreds of years. That's why when Jake and Rawkus go on TV with people who didn't grow up with e-sports you get this dumb "wow! look at these crazy kids and their wild video game thingy!!!!". They just simply don't know!!
Absolutely agree, what I can tell you thou is something more than that, people with money (real money) don't see them differently than classic sports' athletes (read as: cash cows), and that makes me believe in some aspects this treating esports as a "kid's stuff" is on purpose.
Why would you want to deal with more porfessional athletes, with an union and with requests that match what they are worth while you can keep picturing them as kids and "get away" with 50k/year salaries?
I know I always tend to be negative but due to my job I happen to know how much some companies related to the videogame industry are willing to pay to "invest" in esports, but just on fixed costs, not on actual salaries.
EDIT: and if such companies could see how I write... I'd probably lose my job, rofl sorry for all the typos.
No worries dude, I’m right there with you. It blows my mind that there isn’t an e-sports athlete union and I absolutely think they need to unionize ASAP. You’d hope that the older guys in the scene (coaches, gm’s, etc....) would lead that movement but it doesn’t look like that’s the case.
I mean fuck, even just thinking about the money Blizz got from the twitch contract....the entirety of the player’s salaries probably doesn’t equal 20% of that. It’s nuts how much they're getting away with here.
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