Draft:Niche Gamer

Niche Gamer is an American news website based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their articles are mainly on video games from Japan, however they also make articles on politics and other forms of media and pop-culture from around the world. Their political articles are usually heavily bias and misinformative.

History
Niche Gamer was founded in 2013 by Brandon Orselli. Orselli is the founder, owner, chief writer and editor-in-chief of Niche Gamer. He describes himself as a "Nicchiban" and an Outlaw. Brandon said that the reason he founded Niche Gamer was to "to bring original content, insightful opinions and the full and accurate news without any fluff or political agenda." Another writer for Niche Gamer is Brandon Lyttle who describes himself as "A basement-dwelling ogre, who's fan of indie games and slice of life anime and has too many games and not enough time."

Plagiarism
Gaming news site Gematsu has accused Niche Gamer numerous times of "very blatantly stealing content from Gematsu". Niche Gamer's response to the accusations were that a "ghostwriter" was the one who plagiarised the content. On 19 December 2019, Niche Gamer owner and founder Brandon Orselli admitted that he lied about the ghostwriter and apologized to Gematsu. On 7 December 2022, Niche Gamer was once again caught plagerizing work from Gematsu Editor-in-Chief Sal Romano.

Misinformation
On 16 August 2022, Niche Gamer writer Jonathan White wrote a hit piece article on a mod for the video game Spider-Man. The article claimed that the mod wasn't even a mod and that it simply changed the game from the American version to the Middle Eastern version. The article was later taken down after backlash.

On 11 November 2023, Niche Gamer wrote a hit piece article on CNN correspondent Hanako Montgomery who had previously worked for Vice News and wrote the controversial Emmy Award winning documentary "Inside the Pedophilic Manga Industry in Japan". The article claimed that the documentary "slandered Japan’s freedom of expression, manga industry, and labeled its consumers child abusers". The article called Hanako a "hack-journalist".

On 7 December 2023, Niche Gamer published an article claiming that Italy had just passed a law that classifies lolicon content as child pornography. They cited a Twitter user by the name of SlyPreformer who claimed that any anime artwork and fanart could be classified as child pornography under Italian law. However, the image that they posted was from a court case against a man convicted for the possession of explicit photos of minors. Furthermore, Italy has classified lolicon as child porography since February 2022.

On 12 December 2023, Niche Gamer published an article claiming that the song Idol by Yoasobi topped the song Try That in a Small Town by Jason Aldean as the Top Trending 2023 song. However, neither song was the top song of 2023. The song Flowers by Miley Cyrus was the top song of 2023. The song Idol also never topped the song Try That in a Small Town on any chart.

On 25 March 2024 Niche Gamer published an article claiming that American multinational corporation Microsoft made a set of rules to developers to avoid "curvy female characters". However no such set of rules were ever made and it was actually just a suggestion that Microsoft had made to help Video game developers.

On 28 March 2024, Niche Gamer founder Brandon Orselli wrote an article about the recently deceased Jewish-American Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman who had died at the age of 82 after compications from a fall. The article mocked Lieberman for his view on video games, ranted about the removal of the game Night Trap from store shelves and blamed Lieberman for the creation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board.

On 28 March 2024, Niche Gamer writer Brandon Lyttle wrote an article about claiming that the Japanese Communist Party was encouraging Japanese citizens to "report fanservice manga" to the UN. The article also had a section voicing support for Liberal Democratic Party member and manga artist Ken Akamatsu who notably wrote the manga Love Hina in 1998. However, the Japanese Communist Party has made no such statement.