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If You're Going To Stream DBD, At Least Be Curteous

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Warning: Most of this will just be context so if you want the TLDR it'll be at the bottom. Feel free to add your own thoughts.

For context purposes I was playing survivor this morning, solo queue, ya know how it goes. I run into a survivor with legacy who is a streamer. I always like to check out streamers when I run into them and drop a hello and a follow or something just to be nice. I can appreciate the hard work they put into their streams, often times just for a few viewers. I admire their passion and especially if they're legacy, they have some cool plays and good gameplay that might be fun to watch when I'm not playing.

I tune in while we play the match and just leave it on my phone in the background and don't really pay attention. There are three of us left by the time the final gen was done and it was, overall, a good match. I literally got every save from hook, and completed two gens on my own and a third with the streamer herself. I get downed during EGC toward the corner of the map literally right next to an exit gate thinking it would be convenient to pick me up and open the door right. So the streamer's friend gets hooked and she opens the door on the exact opposite side of the map from where I am downed, doesn't 99 it whatsoever and acts like she's about to head toward me.

On her stream she goes "oh my god this felix is brain dead why isn't he crawling towards me what a moron." I was fully recovered and right by the door I had started but didn't get to finish, the other door was EXTREMELY far away as it was mother's dwelling. There was no way without tenacity I would've made it even semi close to the door she was on. She just proceeded to complain about how brain dead I was for going down in the "middle of nowhere" when I was literally right by an exit gate we could've got open. The killer was nowhere near me or the hooked survivor.

She just leaves and goes to spectate me and just keeps ranting about just how "braindead" I am, talking the most sh*t despite the fact that I got two gens done on my own the match, looped the killer, and got literally every hook save. It's one thing to say I made a bad play, but to go on an entire tangent about how I'm dogwater at the video game is a bit unnecessary, especially when you're broadcasting this to your viewers.

At the end of the day I usually don't let things like this get under my skin but coming from a seasoned survivor who has played the game for years I will admit that it stung a bit. She even had the LGBTQIA+ tag on her stream and I love supporter streamers who are apart of the community since I am as well. I would've totally loved to follow her stream and watch it when I wasn't playing, I love supporting smaller streamers but after this experience with her I know for a fact that I'll never follow or watch her if that's the content she is producing.

Moral of the story is, critique of other players is fine but when you go out of your way to call somebody frankly childish insults and be incredibly rude to somebody you don't even know don't expect those people to watch your stream. Streamers often gain popularity by just simply advertising in their username, as she did. When you have such hostile energy toward a video game it doesn't make people want to watch, as evident by her 8 viewers. If you want to attract a positive community from the people you play with or get people to watch your content you probably shouldn't be calling potential viewers brain dead because they didn't get to choose the most optimal spot in your eyes to go down to a killer. Sorry for the rant but this experience just made me a bit upset considering it came from somebody so seasoned in playing the game. When I left a "ggs" in her chat she also had nothing to say to me as well despite my own friendly demeanor.

TLDR: If you're trying to gain a following on twitch or any other platform with DBD gameplay, you probably shouldn't call potential viewers of people you play matches with offensive and insulting things. It's your stream, but don't expect to harvest a positive community if you have a hostile and overly insulting demeanor.

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