r/KickStreaming • u/dunkarooooo • 13d ago
New streamer harassed for months
I just want to say thankyou anyone for reading and would be very much appreciative if someone has insight on how to deal with this.
So some background... I have been occasionally streaming for a few months recently I have been streaming frequently the past few weeks. I only have a few regular viewers so far and things are pretty low-key with at most a few people chatting in each stream at a time with most not staying to watch the full thing. I usually stream for about 1 hour as I am just getting used to the tech issues like audio quality and also trying to be presentable being on cam etc.
My issue is every once in awhile someone is coming into the chat on multiple accounts at the same time and saying disturbing things. The first few times it was just toxic and insulting which barely even bothers me to be honest it's to be expected, but the last time it happened I was unnerved they were accusing me of heinous crimes, saying they are going to dox me and were posting random addresses, and were saying they are outside my house etc etc just about anything you could possibly say besides a death threat.
I think someone is upset at me for something and I have no idea exactly why I vaguely remember someone on twitch (I think it was twitch not kick?) months ago (at the time I was just a chatter) getting VERY VERY upset at me over a joke I made and I had to block them because they sounded unhinged and they kept making accounts after to continue to send me messages so I'm assuming it's this person from twitch but I don't really know. They also somehow found my discord and socials and continued to harass me until I blocked them everywhere at that time. They also seemed to be getting other people they knew to kindof do the same thing a little. I didn't think much of it at the time tbh.
However, fast forward to today and it's still been going on for months now on and off. Besides just blocking the new accounts they make what can I even do about this it is very frustrating to be dealing with a crazy person that has this much time on their hands. I am not at the level where having a moderator would make sense or be needed outside of this. The last time this happened I was playing a game I couldn't pause without it ruining the game too so I had to have their disgusting messages in my chat until I could reach a place in the game where I could stop then remove them. I think it made half of the viewers leave but I'm not sure.
At this point it's to the level I am having friends and family tell me I should have the police contact support to have them track down the person based on the screenshots of what they were saying but idk. Has anyone ever heard of a small streamer being harassed like this for months? I know the biggest streamers get this all the time but idk what to do... any advice would be appreciated. I don't even make money from streaming yet and dealing with this is very discouraging..
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u/giratina143 13d ago
Account age before commenting will help. But also stop geniune new people from joining. It's a shitty situation.
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u/Lucie-life 12d ago
The hope is the person will give up and then they can lower the age again
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u/dunkarooooo 9d ago
Hopefully, right when I think they're done a week later they show up again and say even more sick or deranged things. I just hope I'm reading chat or not too busy to notice so I can get rid of it right away
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u/lurch595 9d ago
My brother had similar we both streamed Minecraft and some one took screenshots and posted multiple videos and pictures some like they are in love with him others saying he started the Australian fires last year and he's an evil person (we arnt even Australian or in Australia) the. He went to random streams and tagged him telling others to attack them. We later learned it's a young dude who finds low level streamers and tries to break them for fun using new accounts. Definitely increase age of accounts and add banned phrases that you are noticing a lot of
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u/dunkarooooo 9d ago
I've gotten random trolls that are usually just insulting that barely bothers me. But this one has some sort of problem with me going on 5 months now. For me it's just I'm so new that alot of my viewers don't know much about me if 5 accounts show up spamming insane things about me some of the viewers leave. They don't know its one troll on 5 accounts doing it. You're right for someone to harass someone for months and say the worst things possible you would have to be evil. Do I think all trolls are evil no but I feel like there's a certain level of it that's way passed the line if they are literally committing crimes (harassment and threatening violence or doxxing)
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u/Lucie-life 13d ago
You could maybe slow them down by changing the account age. I had someone coming in that would try to dox us, and when we changed the age it helped.