Remember, if you’re an influencer, you’re better than normal people.
Late last week, a member of the FaZe clan, FaZe Jarvis, ate a permaban from Epic’s Fortnite. The ban was due to his use of an aimbot in the game’s Solos battle royale mode. To be absolutely fair, he wasn’t, seemingly, doing it out of malice; just screwing around. But Epic takes cheating as seriously as every other company does with their big moneymaker games, and he got banned. These are the sorts of things that usually go without saying; even if you’re just messing around, these things can have consequences. Hell, it’s practically boilerplate in most EULA’s and TOS’s. Not like Jarvis thought so beforehand:
“It didn’t even cross my mind to think that I could be banned for life on Fortnite for those videos,” said Jarvis. “I should have paid more attention to the community rules and the TOS of Fortnite.”
FaZe Jarvis
Considering the fact that the kid makes all his money off of this game, you’d think he’d have thought ahead, though. Well, Ninja thinks it’s unfair, at the least. During a recent stream (saved by Daily Clips Central), Ninja expressed his opinion that Jarvis’ presence as a high-profile content creator should grant him special treatment and exemptions.
“There’s a difference between a content creator who has millions of subscribers, hundreds of thousands of followers, who gets banned from what literally makes him money, and … some kid who is just a piece of shit who has absolutely zero following, has zero money that comes from Fortnite, from gaming, and hacks,” Ninja said.
“You ban that kid, nothing happens to him. Nothing happens. ‘Oh no, he can’t cheat anymore.’ You ban Jarvis, it’s different. The stakes are different, it should be handled a little bit differently.”
Ninja
To be fair, he doesn’t think Jarvis shouldn’t be punished. But he does think that the punishment should be far less severe than for normal people. So imagine Sean Penn robbing a bank. He gets caught. Does the court say “well, you provably committed grand theft, for some stupid reason. But you are a two time Academy Award winner so 6 months community service and 1 year probation. And as an aside, I Am Sam is my favorite of your films. You were robbed by the academy, just like you robbed that bank.”
Ninja’s example of Logan Paul getting off with a slap on the wrist doesn’t work, either. Mostly because YouTube is run by a bunch of jackasses that were more worried about their bottom line than public opinion, and typically only do the bare minimum necessary to clear that opinion, while simultaneously making it hard for anyone that isn’t huge like the Paul brothers to actually use the platform to make money. Meanwhile, Epic is not running at a loss (unlike YouTube does for Google). They can afford to tell a brand ambassador, which isn’t even necessarily one of their top ambassadors, to hit bricks.
I don’t know, I just thin that it’s one thing if you do something in game that the company doesn’t like (possibly by accident), versus knowingly doing something that typically gets you banned in most online multiplayer games.
Source: PC Gamer
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