Local Gamer Upset His Parents Did Not Take More Pictures Of Him Playing Video Games As A Toddler

Local gamer and loving son Brett Vargas is currently entangled in a major tiff with his parents over the lack of pictures of him as a toddler playing video games. Vargas claims the obvious neglect of his parents has lead to him losing out on multiple friendships, Call of Duty matches, and internet points.


Vargas does claim to have had a great life growing up and is eternally grateful to his parents for buying him every console since the Commodore 64, but the twenty-eight-year-old feels that a large chapter of his life is missing without pictures of him happily playing Super Mario in his pajamas or a candid shot of his smiling face opening his brand new Sega Saturn on Christmas Morning.

“Is it asking so much that my parents have a single picture of me on the couch holding an unplugged controller pretending to play when I was clearly to young to have the motor skills to do so?” A visibly distressed Vargas said in an interview with IGN, “How am I supposed to face my friends and their flood of toddler gaming pictures when all I have are yearly ones from Disney World and family trips to Europe?”

Without a picture of himself sitting on his father’s shoulders while they play Tomb Raider to show around the internet, Vargas (and many others in his situation) feel that they are at a severe disadvantage when it comes to smack talk on the internet. Claiming that he has “lost the ability to tell those fucking noobs I’ve been playing since I was a kid” Vargas feels powerless when he loses several games in a row in Madden 25 with no visual proof to back up his claim to “have been gaming before these pieces of shit were still in their dads balls.”

“You just can’t make those kind of claims without proof,” Vargas told IGN, “Sure, I could resort to saying I slept with his whore of a mother but that doesn’t carry much weight anymore. Unlike his mom, am I right?” He went on to tell us that, despite their differences and ongoing silent treatment, Brett assures his parents he would be willing to work them on some sort of reparations for their abuse if only they would apologize. “I’m not asking them to go back in time and take pictures of me, I just want a simple ‘I’m sorry’ or ‘here’s a new Xbox.’ That’s all.”

The age of Facebook and Reddit has dramatically increased the stress placed on Vargas and others who don’t have access to pictures of themselves playing video games as toddlers. While there was virtually no way for parents of the 90’s to know that pictures of their children holding controllers would essentially amount to virtual currency in the future, many still hold them accountable for not taking and sharing as many pictures as possible. An assertion that the majority of parents deny responsibility for.

“How were we supposed to know our son could use a picture we took of him being a shit head and pretending to play Super Mario World, recreate it wearing the same clothes, and rake in internet points twenty years later?” Brett’s father told us, “We just took pictures to hide in boxes and forget about, not to use them for Likes or Snapshits or whatever you kids do.”

The good news of of all this is the fact that, with the advent of smartphone cameras and easier ways to share than ever, parents of today have made a silent pledge to never let their children go without a picture of them playing a game again. Whether their toddler is caught playing Super Mario 3D World on the Wii U, Infamous: Second Son on the PS4 or watching cable TV on the Xbox One, there will always be plenty of pictures of them gaming to use when the time comes.