 We're going to talk about something today for the express purposes of potentially trying to eliminate this from the video games media community. A member of the video game media who's been around for a while, Mr. Nick Robinson, who was a former intern at Giant Bomb and is currently a video producer at Polygon, has been accused by several people of sexual harassment and the accusations apparently there's a lot more information floating around behind the scenes a bunch of his colleagues are disassociating with him really sad they ever worked with him unfortunately no one at Polygon is doing it we're talking about people I used to be on a podcast you know members of that podcast have absolutely left the podcast they want nothing to do with it we're talking about Matt Kessler and Ben Pack you know that they're they're gone they don't want anything to do about it they're gathering information on the scenes as well there's friends of the accusers that are kind of verifying this they've known about the stuff for a long time but Nick Robinson was using his power in the media his power of social media and the attention that he has and his prominent position at a major publication to silence people and scare them into not saying anything you know because oh you know things like he could destroy their lives and yada yada we he sounds like a monster and I want to be clear no one's accusing him of rape they're accusing him of harassment of manipulation tactics of lying to get consent which you know we don't know what kind of manipulation in mind games he's using but a lot of it has to do with his stature of power in the industry you know he's got like eighty four eighty five thousand followers on Twitter that might not seem like a lot to you but that's a heck of a lot to me I have like four hundred and for someone who's just a video producer I mean that's quite a lot to gather for himself and again as I said he was on a popular podcast and I'm sure he's got a lot of interesting opinions about video games that people enjoy and they like his take on things I mean the guy didn't get popular and prominent in the industry by not creating content that people don't care about so he obviously made some good content but he he made I mean we should the warning signs were out there about this he made a tweet way back in March of this year where he said no offense but anyone who acts like they didn't jack off to crystal from starfox adventures is lying to you and a lot you know you could pass it off as a joke but apparently the people that know him know that that's just who he is this is that he truly believes this kind of stuff this kind of filth and that wasn't enough to get him fired from Polygon so I don't know how how he still has a job especially now these accusations are out there and the reason I fell upon the story and decided to talk about it I really had to do do with it really all started what got people to come out of the woodworks was his extremely rude and extremely unprofessional public response to overcooked on switch so this is where you see the Nintendo connection here why it's relevant to Nintendo Prime but I think this is relevant for all video game media out there whether you're a youtuber a journalist running the huge website running a huge YouTube channel doing lots plays whatever the case may be whatever you do this is all relevant because this is this is this represents us this looks poorly on us as content creators and because of video editor I edit videos I won't call myself a video editor but I edit videos so like this is all in this you know in the grand scheme of things we do here at Nintendo Prime you know me basically it's insinuated at least he insinuates that he contacted the devs or the team behind overcooked to talk about the framerate issues the known FPS drops that are happening in unity in overcooked on switch and they basically sent a really kind email and you're seeing it on the screen now we're seeing what he tweeted of it and it talks about you know various ways that he can help them diagnose the issue and in diagnose in a way like what is exactly causing the framerate drops is that the internal storage is an SD card you know can you record video of this and share it to us please you know and he's a member of the media so a lot of these requests don't really sound all that the thing like if I contact an indie dev about issues with their game I'm a member of the media if they asked me to go a little bit above and beyond to help them diagnose it and it's really not that big of a hassle for me especially someone's a video editor here's how he summarized the whole thing in his tweet he said quote please record a video of our shitty port being shitty so we could see how shitty it is extremely rude extremely insensitive and a bunch of bullshit because it's not like the devs don't know that there's a framerate issue but maybe they haven't pinned down exactly all the causes for it maybe there is multiple causes of the the framerate dips and maybe in certain situations they're not seeing the dips but that doesn't mean that's the way it is when it's in public and not on a dev unit so and you're a professional video editor at a major publication then asking you to record a video that would take you all of I don't even know 10 minutes of your day to record the video and upload it to YouTube is ridiculous that that you're making fun of this process of them trying to get you're the one submitting the complaint they're trying to gather more information about the complaint that the standard procedure I mean this email is a pretty professional level email response and he is just sickening and then you have this guy named Landon responding to him and saying actually helping them is a better way to fix the problem than whining about how it's broken next response hey Landon shut the fuck up this is a professional member of the video game media and that is what spurned certain women like at bloody bloody honey with an underscore at the end on Twitter underscore alley west you know at exo exo gossip Gita aka Gita Jackson to all come out of the woodworks and start essentially making these accusations about the sexual harassment public basically enough is enough you're now publicly treating people like shit and getting away with it not just treating people behind the scenes like shit so enough is enough they they made a little hubbub they didn't you know that they talk about manipulation they don't get any two exact details and they shouldn't and we should not be contacting these people hoping for exact details because this is private stuff that affected their lives and their friends lives and members of the media who are disassociating with the members of a podcast Matt Kessler and whatever Ben Pack who are leaving pod burglars or at least Matt Kessler for sure is leaving pod burglars well Ben Pack I don't know if he's leaving pod burglars but he's disassociating from this guy altogether because of these accusations and because some of these people have known him for years and they're like man this this lines up with exactly their opinions of him once he's off camera once he's off the mic and and no longer he just talking strictly about video games but how he is the deal with as a person I really don't want you guys doing any investigation into this again obviously it's accusations a lot of he said she said except in this case it's a it's a he said she said she said she says she said she said plus he said he said he said he said all this is against his word which he has not made a tweet since these accusations all came out probably at the behest of his lawyer I'm sure he's got some legal counsel that is telling him to stop talking about it and to not make any more public remarks or not telling anyone else to fuck off and all this up because if there is going to be a legal case with this it's very obvious there is a mountain of evidence behind the scenes and the fit the polygon hasn't already retroactively apologized or made him apologize for bringing this negative attention to polygon which polygon has a bad reputation as it is and the reason I'm talking about this is because as a member of the media this disgust me it disgust me so much that I don't want people who find out about the story whether it's through us or through other means or neogaf through other youtubers through polygon themselves if they ever talk about it through Kotaku or whoever else I don't want them to look at this story as what the gaming industry itself creates right obviously there is issues at polygon that allowed a man like Nick Robinson to come into power and allowed him to you know be abused that power position that he has on women and that needs to be examined and polygons gonna have to do some deep look into internally figuring out how the heck they allowed such a monster into their team and allowed him to be there for as long as he's been there and enabled him but for my interactions with people at IGN that's not how it is there my interaction people at Kotaku that's not how it is there but my interactions with people at GameSpot that's not how it is there or game and former or interactions I've had with any fellow youtubers I've never even seen youtubers even youtubers you would think are you know don't respect women I mean heck maybe you think PewDiePie doesn't respect women but every interaction I hear about it is that's that's just not the case like he's just poking fun at the fact that people don't think he does when honestly he's a really nice guy and that's the thing like most I'd say 98% of the gaming media in the gaming press are pretty upstanding people regardless of what you think about what they bring to the table for entertainment them as people they are good people this is an example that isn't and if you're out there and you know of any stories like this I want you to not be afraid to do something about it because because this guy used his power to keep people silent and I'm not saying you need to make a big public hubble about it but get a lawyer you know contact his employer or her her employer if it's a girl you know abusing her power we can't I know we live in a country where abuse of power happens all the time but this is the kind of abuse of power that we cannot tolerate in the video game industry the video game industry is fighting an uphill battle right now because there's been such terrible treatment of female developers and female managers throughout game development and we in the video game media have this unique ability to set a standard where that's not okay but we have to live by that standard we can't be elevating people who don't who abuse their power incorrectly you know to abuse women or even elevate a woman who's abusing I mean I'm not going to say here and pretend that that women there aren't women out there in power that abuse males as well I mean it happens it's less frequent what it does happen no one should be able to abuse their power to sexually harass and harm other people and I I'm just really sickened by this story overall but if you know of this happening anywhere else with any other member of the media and even a member of the movie it's family members maybe it's just your next-door neighbor I'm not saying make a big public hollow blue how you know like go on Twitter and start making YouTube videos about it but don't be afraid to get help because people like this should not be allowed to get away with it yeah that that's really all I have to say on this I am Nathan Ruffa from Nintendo Prime if you like this video I mean maybe you maybe found it informative I'm a little sad about this whole thing if you can't tell if you dislike the video hit that dislike button subscribe for more and you know folks I'll just catch you in the next one