Stream Etiquette Pt 7: Handling Streamer Beef

I made a section on this due to occasions where viewers came by my channel and immediately started speaking ill of another channel they had been on.

Being real, whatever your issue is with another streamer which may or may not of got you banned on their channel? That's the business of you and them, and there is no place for it in the chat of someone unrelated to the ordeal, or in any chat at all for that matter.

Streamers (those with toxic attitudes notwithstanding) tend not to ban someone unless the reason seemed warranted, and you're not pleading a good case by speaking behind their back, something that from my perspective? You would likely do in regards to me after you leave my chat and go to someone elses.

Harsh as it may sound? Reassess the situation. If you got banned for something, then chances are you may have deserved it, and even if you didn't? Its for you and that other streamer to possibly discuss and resolve.

And if it can't be resolved? Then move on past it in a mature fashion, especially if it was a toxic channel who did it without reason. In such a scenario you're better off without them anyway and they aren't even worth going around ranting about.

Be it if it was something you were at fault for or not, badmouthing other streamers on someone's chat is another good way to quickly gain a bad reputation, as well as cause issues for the streamer you are complaining in the chat of.

Think about it, the streamer you badmouthed hears from others that their name was brought up in another channel in negative context, during a stream where everyone watching the streamer in the chat could see it, which will lead to them possibly getting confrontational with that said streamer who chances are, didn't even say anything themselves and possibly even stood up for the streamer being badmouthed.

I've stated that I myself have my share of streamers that I don't get along with anymore (if we were ever friends to begin with) and I have stated as well on Twitter at times in a general sense how I can't stand streamers who treat their viewers as just numbers. Every streamer is very likely going to have another channel they don't like for one reason or another. This is more so given how huge the stream community is.

But I don't go around other channels publicly bashing them nor do I try to bring my issues with them to their own channels.

If anything? I've defended some of them when people have come to my channel speaking ill of them regardless of our current standing. Professionalism is something that should be practiced be you a streamer, or a viewer.

Also to add on? Going to a streamer's chat to try and enlist them and their viewers for a witch hunt to mass report another streamer over an issue between you and them? Another surefire way to get banned and possibly reported yourself especially if it comes to be found out that you are lying about what happened be it through chat logs, screen caps, or vods of the streamer's streaming sessions, any of which shows that you were the one who actually acted out on their channel.

Regardless of what the issue is with you and a particular streamer? Again that is for YOU and that streamer (and possibly the site itself) to handle, not the place of others.

And if its a false claim? Then you are risking putting people not even originally involved in hot water by trying to get them to back you in a childish bout of mass harassment on someone undeserving, all because you can't take responsibility for your actions.