Ninja has apologised to a fellow Fortnite participant after accusing him of stream sniping and submitting a report towards him for it.
The incident began on November 11 when Ninja was streaming Fortnite and was killed by a participant referred to as IcyFive throughout the match. After Ninja was taken down, his teammate DrLupo stated “watch for the emote” and, certain sufficient, shortly after these phrases had been stated IcyFive did a dance emote. Ninja instantly reported IcyFive for stream sniping.
Ninja took the dance emote to be sufficient proof of IcyFive stream sniping him. “What an idiot. How stupid can you be?” Ninja said about IcyFive after submitting the report. His assumption was that IcyFive did the dance emote as he heard DrLupo speak about it on the stream.
However, as any Fortnite participant will know, dancing after killing somebody in Fortnite is widespread, and isn’t proof of stream sniping by itself. Typically, that will imply the report could be ignored, however as Ninja is without doubt one of the hottest Fortnite streamers, issues had been raised in Reddit threads that his place locally would imply IcyFive could be banned – simply because he was reported by Ninja.
Soon after, IcyFive went to Twitter to answer the stream sniping accusation towards him, even offering video evidence that will show he wasn’t watching Ninja’s stream throughout the match.
DrLupo was quick to apologise to IcyFive and stated he didn’t help Ninja’s actions on stream – each the report and his conversations afterwards to individuals who disagreed with him. Ninja additionally gave an apology to IcyFive in a while in the identical Twitter thread.
Epic won’t ever ban individuals for no cause even when I say something.. you assuming they do is naive. Stop enjoying the sufferer, you aren’t getting banned, I’m sorry. Stop milking it.
— Ninja (@Ninja) November 11, 2018
It appears IcyFive hasn’t been banned but however he has made a video explaining his aspect of the story you could watch above. He additionally referred to as the entire ordeal “stupid” on Twitter saying that he’ll be “mad asf if I get banned for doing something I didnt do.”
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