Summary

A young Twitch gamer, Kawaii, shares insights into his gaming world, including his favorite games, characters, and aspirations.

Abstract

The article features an interview with a young Twitch gamer, Kawaii, who provides a glimpse into his gaming world. He discusses his love for Call of Duty and his preferred character, a ninja girl, chosen for her aesthetics. Kawaii shares details about his gaming strategies, such as using four fingers to play on his smartphone and the importance of points in the game. He also reveals his passion for anime and his dream of becoming a streamer. The interview concludes with Kawaii complimenting the interviewer by calling him a "Chad," a term used to denote an ideal man in youth slang.

Bullet points

Kawaii is a young Twitch gamer who loves playing Call of Duty.
He prefers playing with a female character, a ninja girl, for aesthetic reasons.
Kawaii uses a Kar 98 and a Desert Eagle as his favorite weapons in the game.
He aims to achieve the skin of the gun and make it a diamond.
Kawaii uses four fingers to play games on his smartphone.
He enjoys watching anime and understands some Japanese.
Kawaii dreams of becoming a streamer and competing in tournaments.
He uses the term "Chad" as a compliment, referring to an ideal man.

I wrote an interview story with a gamer on Twitch

A young user helped me to understand the world of video games, of the new generations, of “Call of Duty” and GigaChad

Photo by Gabriel Dias Pimenta on Unsplash

The young Kawaii, this is his nickname, woke up and immediately connected to the Twitch streaming platform, where I was in live video. He spends his days with friends on the phone playing Call of Duty, known as “Cod” among fans: “I’m the one who pushes, I go to enemy bases and smash everyone” he says while talking about his character’s favorite weapons, a Kar 98 and a Desert Eagle, “Today my mission is to get the skin of the gun, I want to make it a diamond. To win I have to finish 110 games with 10 kills, it’s a team deathmatch, five against five”.

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The world of videogames

The protagonist of his story in the video game is a ninja girl, chosen only for her aesthetics: she has a black dress with katanas behind her back, even though he hasn’t seen Uma Thurman in Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill”. “I never use boys in games,” he explains, “because they make the best skins and outfits on women.” The katanas are just the fatal extra weapon:

“If I use them, I have the power of cancer, they are very strong, I win easily. In extremis, when I run out of bullets, I use the knife ”, or rather the“ cortello ”, pronounced in the Roman style.

Each character has a fighting class, his is: “Kar98, Desert Eagle, Knife, grenades, smoke pressure mine. Ability: the shield. Specialty: tactical mask, sleight of hand and silent steps “. The tactical mask allows you to reduce the damage caused by enemy grenades by 50%, the sleight of hand allows you to “switch” weapons quickly, and, with silent steps, you can move without the knowledge of your opponents.

The telephone and video games

Points cannot be missing: based on the objectives achieved (read kills) in the missions, it is possible to invoke UAVs, or airplanes that reveal the position of enemies on the map, aerial bombardments, and juggernaut. “To play well on your smartphone, though, you have to learn how to use four fingers. At first, they hurt me, “he tells me. The violence behind the video game? “Okay, it’s a game, as long as we don’t do it in real life.”

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Tournaments focused on electronic games and sports are becoming more and more popular: “I follow them but I don’t participate. They destroy you, they are twenty times stronger. Matches are always played with the telephone. For the moment I am of the highest rank in the game in all modes, but I am not strong enough yet ”. What are the other passions?

“I understand some Japanese, I don’t study it, but after watching over 300 anime I have learned a few things. My favorite is Black Clover ”.

What would you like to do when you grow up, what does Kawaii dream about? “I want to be a streamer, I want to stream fps, that is, first person games like Call of Duty. I am very competitive, so I have fun! I’m starting now, no matter how many followers I have, I just want to talk to people who play Cod, Dragon Ball Legends — I’m a fan, the movie has to come out in April, I’ve been playing it for 3 years, my favorite character is Gogeta… Goresh infamous! -, Rocket League and all my own games, I like to know the opinions of people I don’t know ”.

The GigaChad

At the end of the live broadcast, while I continue to transcribe his answers live, we say goodbye: “No one had ever interviewed me, you are the first. However, you are a chad — the perfect man, absolute perfection: put commas and periods! Chad’s ideal song is ‘Can you feel my heart’ by the metal band Bring Me The Horizon. Look for “Giga Chad” and Ernest Khalimov, you will understand everything, he is beautiful, I like him because he is: he does not smoke because he breathes only air and does not drink alcohol, only water; I don’t smoke but there is a beer … The Giga Chad never loses!”.

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I ran to check the meaning of “Chad” in youth slang and this explanation appeared in the search engines:

“The meme Chad identifies the archetype of the alpha male, that is a white man between the ages of 20 and 30, attractive and very popular with women (who considers sex objects). The definition began to be used in Chicago in the 1990s and has a pejorative value ”

“No no, we use it to pay a compliment!” Kawaii assures me.