Go for it and enjoy the potential moderation, I already reported my own post for moderator consideration.

(Sorry but your plan has backfired pittifully)

But, but, but, but why? :(

I agree with both you and FIT_ said, to a degree.  Can't excuse the "Kappa" dumbass.

Most of what I've seen on this thread and under the youtube video has been almost nothing but hate towards these kids. It is sad.

To be fair, it seemed like that kid may have had autism himself. He obviously looked up to the guys there (and possibly interested in developing games) and was probably hoping that at least one of them also had autism (and that it helped them with game development).

While some of it was cringe-y, a lot just seemed to stem from people not knowing how to talk to and deal with kids (or technical issues).

I'm almost sure that kid didn't have autism. He was just being a dick.

This video was quite funny. It made me laugh several times. I shared it with one of my friends and now we like to talk about how much WAM we need.

Let's get something straight here. Rightly or wrongly, that video was put together for the laughs; it compiled the worst of the bunch to create the biggest cringe. It achieved its goal, whether it sickens people or not.

To those people who feel the need to defend those kids because they think they are disabled, be careful what you say. You may have insulted some ordinary kids who've been left to rot for too long in front of their computers or consoles by their parents and/or are simply overcome with awe at the chance of asking the devs about their favourite game.

Sure, it's possible one or two of those kids might have some inherent social development issues and sure, it's wrong to mock them but it's also wrong to make a casual diagnosis based on a few minutes' footage and then use it to judge others' reactions. 

It's possible for a kid to be capable of being awkward, stupid, funny, cute or downright intelligent and insightful regardless of their health, background, developmental issues or whatever.

To the people who are criticising the devs for how they handled the kids' questions, and to the people criticising some of the reactions on this thread, it's not a crime to have not had any experience dealing with kids. Those of us who are parents or work regularly  with kids should remember that there was a time when we did not have that experience. It may have meant our ignorance was greater back then, but it didn't make us bad people.

That video showed a situation that allowed kids to pose questions to their idols, and it highlights the moments where it backfired. It was funny, it was cringeworthy, it was kids being kids. And that's it - that's all there is to it.

My younger brother was like those kids a few years back, when he was still addicted to Minecraft. It annoyed me to death. lol!

Thankfully, he outgrew the game and is much more social now.

Thank you for that post. I'd also like to add that as a parent of an 11 year-old autistic boy who absolutely LOVES Minecraft and who at this stage in his life wouldn't be able to even ask a question at Minecom due to his expressive delays I found the awkward questions from those kids (who all probably have parents who love them greatly and are most likely on the spectrum themselves, seriously did anyone notice the behaviors of those kids?) funny, as I do whenever my son says something off-the-wall or weird because he doesn't have the capacity you and I do for speech. I'm sure the developers took them in stride as best as they could, and I'm also sure this wasn't the whole of the questions they got either.

What I find cringeworthy is the lack of awareness and compassion for people with disabilities here in a community I generally like to say I identify with. Yes they are VERY awkward but to start a post to publicly shame these kids by suggesting that Notch sold Minecraft because some special needs kids asked a bunch of cumbersum questions is low.

And the worst part is there are people actually trying rationalizie it. Seriously, these are children no. 1 and no. 2 while not all of them may have been disabled YOU know there were plenty who are. Tacky, straight up tacky yall.