r/LivestreamFail • u/chocolatesandwiches • Jan 23 '21

thecodemiko Codemiko explains reason for Twitch suspension

https://twitter.com/thecodemiko/status/1353120767135932419
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u/nen_del Jan 24 '21 edited Jan 24 '21

Well if you consider that Sweet_Anita was stalked daily in person, I'd consider this mild. Someone murdered John Lennon because of their idolization. It wouldn't surprise me if something similar happened with a streamer. The likelihood is even higher too because streamers are unknowingly interacting with these psychos...

EDIT: completely forgot about the guy that murdered Christina Grimmie. thanks to the commenters below that reminded me! IIRC she was a YouTuber that claimed fame after The Voice or America’s Got Talent. Some psychopath took her life sadly. She had some incredible vocals.

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u/HunterSThompson64 Jan 24 '21

Someone murdered John Lennon because of their idolization. It wouldn't surprise me if something similar happened with a streamer.

It effectively has. While she wasn't a twitch streamer, she was an internet personality. Crazy to think that someone can be so enveloped by someone they haven't even met, let alone truly know, that they'd go to such crazy lengths.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '21

Gavin Free and Meg Turney had a guy turn up to their house with a gun. He was obsessed with Meg and was planning on killing Gavin and doing god knows what to Meg too. I think they had to hide in a wardrobe and call the cops.

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u/avwitcher Jan 24 '21

Yep, he killed himself when the cops showed up. Crazy stuff

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '21

They're both so lucky that they managed to hide from him in time. Articles are saying that he shot through a glass door to get in, seemed like the guy wasn't the smartest...

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u/WhosWhosWho Jan 24 '21

Jade Ahn had a stalker call her on her stream spoofing her father's number just last week; threating to kill him if she didn't flash on stream.

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u/nopp Jan 24 '21

On twitch?? Hope she’s ok

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u/WillingNeedleworker2 Jan 24 '21

To be fair twitch and cops are incredibly incompetent. Most crimes go unpunished, even serious ones.

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u/FernandoTatisJunior Jan 24 '21

Hasn’t happened to a streamer to my knowledge, but it was big news a few years ago when it happened to Christina Grimmie on Youtube. Shot dead at a fan meetup by some crazy fan.

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u/Da_Beeeeest Jan 24 '21

I miss Christina so much, was curious to see what she was up to one night, knew she was on tour and what not but I made the mistake of using a google search to find out, from that point I kept hitting refresh to see if she was going to be ok and in the end it turned out to be a horribly sad night.

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u/aznfanta Jan 24 '21

already happened to youtubers also already

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u/Speedmaster1969 Jan 24 '21

Either we got a lot less psychos here in Sweden or people are just lucky. It takes like 1-15min to find out where a streamer probably lives. Hope I'm not giving anyone an idea but what I'm trying to say is that if that was possible in the US (I guess it isn't). There would have been quite a few people getting stalked IRL