Monetized or not, a good general rule is to not judge how others spend discretionary time & money. 

Given he's a streamer he's no doubt been making money in all those hours spent with this game. Seems like that makes those hours more fulfilling and more productive than any gaming you've done in the last five years.

“I don’t want to objectively think about an issue, so every argument I make must include an easily dispatched strawman.”

Internet: There will be a real life Pikachu Detective Movie.

They should kill it with fire, destroy any evidence and pretend this never ever happened.

For anyone who wonders why his sexuality is a big deal, consider how often you see articles about streamers or competitive players saying something racist or homophobic. Or how often you see and hear those things in game.

You’re going to catch some flak for this question, so I’ll try to make it very simple and non-aggressive.

Why isn’t there an article about me, the straight white guy who wears Levis andkicks your butt in FIFA?

Do you play online games? Try doing so as someone who the random teenagers you’ve matchmade with realize is gay and try to count how many “fag” references you’ll get. You’ll lose count before the first match is over. The gaming community at large is extremely homophobic and having queer gamers win things means a lot…

People are still catching a lot of crap for being in certain minority groups, so it shall continue to be important to spotlight diverse representation. YOU might not mind playing games with a furry or a woman or an old person, but that’s definitely not the norm in the gaming community.

In a word: Representation.
People of all stripes want to see someone “like them” in glamorous venues. It’s the dream, the realization that you too can become great. It’s projection; wish-fulfilment. But liek children need heroes to aspire to be great, so do adults.
That SonicFox represents two oft-maligned constituency…

I have zero desire to get into the mess surrounding Wu (as Gamergate is and always has been toxic as fuck, and founded on a number of fallacy-laden arguments)

Former enlisted here, myself. I wasn’t that turned off by it. It wasn’t a Kellen Winslow “i’m a soldier!” type of statement, or even a statement necessarily about her personal experience (she doesn’t say “I feel like a soldier in World War II.”) She’s probably right. I’d say the majority of those in combat would…

Stalking and harassment?

I think you mean acts taken against her, like 45+ death threats from fucking GamerGaters.

Not even Sheitbart is “reporting” anything like that, shut the fuck up neckbeard.

Found the idiot on the internet!

As the titular character of Samer 2, I can guarantee that it is the dankest gane around.

The World Cant

Nah, it’s easier to blame people that aren’t white, and praise white people for exercising their 2nd Amendment rights or make them look like a martyr. Boom, more arrested/dead innocents that make me feel uneasy and I don’t have to pay a dime towards care! Soul? What’s that? More of your expensive wine please!

Too easy access to what he did not need and what he did need he cannot get, not in the states anyway.