Just in a few months of immersing myself in the black gaming Youtube community, I have witnessed atrocious behavior and WTF moments. A joke's a joke but when you're trying to make something of yourself yet stoop down to levels of sabotaging another's work just for giggles or for your own ego booster, something is seriously wrong. Don't think that when you have a vendetta against one person and make videos against that person it won't affect the entire community. It does and it looks bad on all of us trying to make it.
There's a handful of Black successful game journalists but that's just it - only ONE HAND WORTH and not even the whole hand. How come there isn't more? How come we don't see our fellow Black people as hosts of popular gaming shows on television or online? How come BET and TVOne doesn't feature a show about gaming?
I can tell you one observation - UNITY. Unity is one of the most missing features of the Black community in general. So no wonder you see disunity, misrepresentation, miscommunication and sabotaging in the Black Youtube community. If we all have a common goal - to get our work seen and featured in the prestigious gaming events and biggest media outlets, then why go against one another? The gaming industry does not take Black Game Journalists serious. Participating in some of these Facebook groups and youtube comment areas, I wouldn't take them serious either.
A troll is a troll but when you entertain the troll, guess what you become? A troll enabler. A troll can mess up your whole flow of having a respectful community. Instead of kicking them out, reporting them, etc., some game journalists entertain them. You want to know the difference between White gaming journalists and Black gaming journalists on Youtube? They don't fight among themselves. They help each other out.
Now I am not saying that there are no Black gaming journalists who help each other out nor are there are no White game journalists who don't help each other, but for the very few who do help the community, there are, what seems to be 4x the amount who don't help their fellow journalist and the community. If we want to shape up the gaming community and industry, we must start within ourselves and then help thy neighbor get to where they have to go. We are all in this community together.
Honestly, I am getting sick of seeing the same folks and same websites covering game news and industry events. The industry events barely let newcomers in. It's as though they have the monopoly. Granted, I still like some of these hosts and some popular media outlets but I want to see other races take the lead.
When diversity is needed, stereotypes come flying in. Just because I am a Black person doesn't mean I cover games and hip-hop. No offense to anyone who does but I think the gaming industry looks at the few content Black game journalists that are successful and puts them in a bracket. Although, if I was to think smart about it, I could use that stereotype to an advantage. I could come out with covering games and ROCK AND METAL MUSIC. Bet you didn't see that coming!
Anywho we need to take it serious and to a higher level. Spending your time on people not worth a second of it is not only a disservice to your fans but a disservice to your essence. If you want to be seen serious and 'bout it, then act like a boss and help your people out.
Have your own ideas about how to shape up the Black Gaming Youtube Community? Share them in the comments.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
My idea would be to stop looking to segregate the gaming community into white/black/men/women/gay/stra ight....etc
I find this kind of thing completely absurd. I have never once even considered that i want the specific opinion of a certain type of person, that to me sounds like a massive step BACKWARDS.
We are a gaming community - end of. We do not need a girl gamer community for Keza from IGN, we don't need a fat gamer community for the jimquisition, and we don't need a beard gamer community for angry joe - all we need is one unified gamer community of quality journalists and i honestly don't give two shits what colour skin those journalists have.
"Black people as hosts of popular gaming shows on television"
Steve Harvey said hi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bohgA _so84o
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BET and TvOne don't feature any shows about gaming because there isn't a demand for it. Reality shows seem to be what most of their audience demands.
The world is a funny place, where I live I've had(a lot of) people who seem to think something was wrong with me just because I don't really fit with stereotypes, as if they are something that has to hold true to every race, as if a person can't be a true individual.
Makes me think, "WTF?". Doesn't have much to do with the article, but it reminded me of some experiences in my own life.
Also the proper way to write out that sentence would be "Theres a handful of successful black game journalists, not black successful game journalists
After reading the first couple paragraphs you lost me, if people want to act a fool let them
The best way to do that is to do it yourself, to be honest. I don't mean that to sound racist or anything like that, but if you think there is a void that you think needs to be filled, and you think you have what it takes, then start making videos. Get a good gaming rig, good video editing software (Vegas or Premiere preferred), a good mic, and get to recording yourself making games and commentary. The main thing is that you'll find out that it takes a good bit of time to get the takes you want, but it might be worth it.
I think it's because no black gamer has actually come forth on YouTube and gotten to the level that people like TotalBiscuit (British), Jessie Cox (heavy set person), and Dodger (female) have gotten to. Hell, if you want to bring movies into this, the Nostalgia Critic made it okay to be a male with a higher pitched yelling voice like I have sometimes. The point is that minority status shouldn't be the only driving factor in whether or not a particular game journalist makes it big or not. It also has to do with if they know what they are doing when they make the videos. Things like quality of the content, making things we want to see, having a good personality, and making us want to listen to what they have to say are extremely important to this.
I'd start out with doing a LP or covering a game or system that you enjoy. No YouTuber got famous because they were trying to be. Both TB and Jessie actually got their start by covering the World of Warcraft Cataclysm beta, putting out video after video of what to expect out of the xpac when it finally dropped. Then they branched out to other things. I'd also see if you could get some help from others to get game footage or make title cards or something like that. The less time it takes you to get out high quality content, the better your viewers will be. Finally, don't stress yourself out over it. Find your niche and have fun with it. Don't try to do too much too quickly. Want to know why I was covering Anita Sarkeesian all that time I was making them? Because that's what got me the most views. It wasn't that many views, but people wanted to have an actual gamer comment about what she was saying. All in all, that was my niche, I guess: commenting on the social aspects.
But yeah, it might be more of black gamers either not having the interest or not being able to find that groove or care enough to make a conscious effort to make high quality videos.