The people who play videogames on YouTube have gotten a bad rap lately, and not without good reason. PewDiePie finds himself embroiled in controversy over his anti-semitic commentary; YouTuber JonTron offered what you might call interesting views on immigration on immigration; and Colin Moriarty recently left the Kinda Funny team after catching heat for a regressive joke about International Women’s Day. From the outside, this makes the entire YouTube landscape look more than a little toxic. And it can be. But what do you do if you enjoy gaming-based entertainment of the kind these YouTubers offer? And what do you do if your kid does? You want some quality Let’s Plays, but you don’t want your 12-year-old looking up to someone prone to spouting off Richard Spencer talking points. (If you do, fair warning: this might not be the list for you.) Allow us to present some family-friendly choices. These people may use profanity from time to time—this is videogame YouTube land, after all—but they won’t send slurs blasting through your headphones.
The people who play videogames on YouTube have gotten a bad rap lately, and not without good reason. PewDiePie finds himself embroiled in controversy over his anti-semitic commentary; YouTuber JonTron offered what you might call interesting views on immigration on immigration; and Colin Moriarty recently left the Kinda Funny team after catching heat for a regressive joke about International Women’s Day.
From the outside, this makes the entire YouTube landscape look more than a little toxic. And it can be. But what do you do if you enjoy gaming-based entertainment of the kind these YouTubers offer? And what do you do if your kid does? You want some quality Let’s Plays, but you don’t want your 12-year-old looking up to someone prone to spouting off Richard Spencer talking points. (If you do, fair warning: this might not be the list for you.)
Allow us to present some family-friendly choices. These people may use profanity from time to time—this is videogame YouTube land, after all—but they won’t send slurs blasting through your headphones.