somewhat, but a guy like Soda has his times where he's funny.

And Lirik is on a whole new level of little bitch

Black Hearthstone player deals with torrents of racist abuse after making finals of DreamHack

gj internet

youre telling me people spammed TriHard?

NO WAI

Hmmm, yup... my calendar still says 2016. Amazing.

nope.

honestly feel like im getting troaled by the world since there are general big names like day9, qtpie, soda who i never watch but know exist

Chat spammed TriHard, got banned. This is the story the public gets EleGiggle.

"He says he's never experienced hostility or racism while attending live competitive events, in person. "Everyone [at DreamHack] was super nice. Everyone was congratulating me — 'you did really well', 'your play was super impressive.' I had nothing negative happen to me in person while I was there."

I find stories like this somewhat funny. Not b/c of the things that were said b/c those comments are obviously ignorant and not necessary.

What's funny to me is how people act surprised or outraged when it happens. Everyone that streams games online has had to deal with those types of comments in their chat.

It's nothing new and it will never go away as long as there's a chat box.

The fact that so many of these people suggest global banning of the most well known emote of a black guy, TriHard, as a way helping stem 'racism' is so hilarious ironic.

Yes, lets just block all images of black people. Racism solved! Thanks SJWs you guy did it!

lol what are you talking about? I have never had anyone say "those types of comments" in my chat in my limited streaming. There are multiple streamers I watch that I've never seen receive those types of comments.

I'm glad everyone was nice to him in person, though I don't quite see what it has to do with this.

wait this is literally just about TriHard spam

next youre going to tell me twitch chat points out reynads forehead or spams HeyGuys when theres a girl

Is it?

It says people spamming TriHard was just one part of it:

If the author, and the Hearthstone player, are both lying about what happened or something, or if he says things like "I can definitely see how that would hurt a lot" (and wishes his family didn't watch, lol?) about people spamming a Trihex emote, that seems weird.

they usually added stuff like TriHard stole my bike or something.

But yeah, its like 100 people spamming out of 50k viewers its not like hes getting whispers of death threats from skinheads.

I find it personally naive to expect anything else from a public chat with tens of thousands of people when its clearly just a very vocal minority that wants attention by trolling.

Arabs get worse spam. The chat actually loved Terrence.

Ohh, so it wasn't just spamming an emote, they were saying racist things?

I seriously didn't expect to get such a NOPE, NOTHING TO SEE HERE, NOT A PROBLEM reaction when I posted that, but I'm glad we could at least reach the understanding that the author and the player weren't inventing this out of thin air.

Anyone who routinely watch twitch should assume that happens because there is no way it wouldn't, so posting about it here seems pretty weird.

Does it strike you as something that should happen?

I mean, I'm certainly glad I posted it given that I learned something from the utterly bizarre reaction it provoked among you all.

it's deplorable but that's human nature and how masses work with anonimity

Many of the people spamming racist stuff arent even racist themselves, they just find ways to trigger as many people as possible and get attention.

You either close twitch chat or you go full fascist mode and overload moderators that bans everyone. Or you accept that humans can be really ****ty and sometimes actually funny. Then when the general public gets a hold of crap like this you shake your head and hope they dont generalize everyone on twitch


You're not gonna get a mass of 50k+ anonymous people to not make " "funny" " comments about everything that happens on screen, be it WutFace for audio problems/ugly person zoom-in, KappaPride for people who say something gay or look effiminate, haHAA spam for when someone seems or sounds socially awkward or there's a cringy moment.

ANELE whenever there's an arab or an explosion/bomb moment, TriHard whenever a black person is on screen.


Then there's people that go the extra mile and add more hateful stuff so they get that delicious attention

I'm not talking about just racist comments. I mean all offensive comments.

There's no way in hell you'll ever convince me that you've never seen offensive comments in 99% of the streams you've watched. I see it all the time and I'm constantly opening new streams looking for someone entertaining to watch.

wait, so you are telling me that in 2016 people say stupid thing in twitch chat?

Well god damn that is clearly unaccepatble, lets make a petition to stop this

guys like Trump had some of the tamest friendly chat yet he still went submode only forever I can't remember when but I know he had a lot of autism spam.

if you stream odds are youre gonna get called an autist and a virgin or a cuck (think thats the new trendy insult lately).

Add in homophobic/sexist/racist/fat-if-not-skinny/manlet-if-short flavor if there's something else different and obvious about you

For some streamers, the worst, most offensive comments they get are "you suck at Starcraft". Pretty amazing that you put that on the same level with racist stuff.

With what? 50 viewers?

There's a huge difference with big public streams and personal very small streams with only peopel that actually care about you

Like if there were shows on TV with live comments from 100% unanimous people that pop up without pre-moderation you'd see the foulest things imaginable, its not just the internet or "young nerds" problems

So you've never seen someone say something like...

That move sucked dick.
That move is gay.

Or comments about the way a female character looks. Like she's fat or I bet she swallows?

No comments like that, ever?

100-200. I'm glad we're clearing up these discrepancies though - you could have just said "I_AM_EVIL is wrong that all streamers get nasty, offensive comments" from the start.

What? Of course I have. You're the one claiming it apparently happens all the time and every streamer gets this stuff. Furthermore, there's a difference in intent between someone who says "that move is gay", which is certainly ignorant but not designed to directly offend anyone (assuming the streamer isn't gay), versus spamming racist **** in chat because a black person is on stream, jfc!