Nintendo ID Claims Youtube LPs

[Zero Kirby]

Video gaming alone doesn't cause obesity, and it's still a weak point as millions of people who don't play Videogames are obese, where as athletes are for the most part in a league of their own in terms of fitness

It was never intended to be a particularly strong one, or anything more than a one liner, really.

I don't agree that because there is a biological marker for the amount of time athletes put into honing their skills that they are suddenly more applicable at marketing those skills. I'm going to budge on that about as much as you're going to anything else.

Even attempting to think within your logic, athletes make millions of dollars for their extra effort, Let's Players make... about five thousand if they're lucky.
I seriously don't see how they haven't clocked enough hours mastering their skills to have earned the extra bread and cheese that most of them make from their channels.

Note: I'm obviously not talking about the more popular Let's Play channels such as Game Grumps, but even they do not make more then ten or twenty thousand, and I doubt they even come close to it.

Athletes get injured. All the time. Sometimes very seriously, sometimes even killed. They need very good insurance. They have contracts. They get traded. And the toll of playing sports is a hard one on the body after a very long time. And this is something that cannot realistically be prevented without simply not playing sports.

Lets Players can stop playing video games, take a few breaks, and get a daily dose of exercise and eating right to stop potential injuries and unhealthiness from playing games. They are not in contracts with anyone. They are rarely (if ever) seriously injured or killed without warning during a game and the game being the cause of death.

This is why paying athletes millions of dollars makes more sense than paying Lets Players millions of dollars. They are putting themselves at risk of serious injury in every game. Lets Players are not.