So maybe, after some background info...give him a chance and check out his video/audio. There's an audio of him playing Mendelssohn's Piano concerto No1 presto with the Pittsburg symphony orchestra, that might interest the pianists on this forum....
That's a good point.
Where I've seen the videos presented around the internet, I notice the quality is dire.
If somone posts to the audition room, generally speaking, even if their equipment isn't professional etc, some attempt appears to be made to present a piece of music for what it is. Not "Check out my 7++t skillz, I'm standing on my head and playing Mozart"
The visual content seems to be the entire focus. [Partly perhaps because the various additions of site logos and conversions to different codecs has probably left any musical content that might have been there long behind]
Whether he's blindfolded or moving his arms / hands quickly, with a metronome as proof of that, is what I get the impression I'm supposed to look at and be impressed by. The presenters seem to be suggesting that my jaw should drop at the visual evidence of some uber-virtuoso superhuman ability.
I've seen it expressed in terms where, perhaps I might walk up to Hamelin after a concert and say "Yeah, you can play, but have you seen that kid on the internet, he plays blindfolded!"
That to me is the biggest problem with the videos, because aiui the hype isn't true. Especially not having been witness to other pianists in and via this forum.
If it was presented as you just did, to check out a good audio recording of a computer game tune, perhaps alongside other good recordings of classical pieces and the measure of him as pianist was either not stated or being made in terms of his ability against his peers, as you have talked about him here, then I think it might be accepted better by those who probably don't see him, with perfect justification, in the same way some of his promoters around the internet do.
OTOH, that focus might not get the level of attention, gigs at computer game shows etc that the other approach has.
Topic: What are you thoughts on these pianists