Thank goodness.
I don't regret writing the thread. In fact, I'm proud of it. I will not budge on what I said before, though. Streamer cows are misery. There's way too much content to sift there for mere seconds of entertainment. You need one of two extremes. Ethan Ralph is a constant disaster, so there's no shortage of content. On the other hand, Keffals runs a stream that is so devoid of content that it's actually easier to find highlights because he's either doing nothing or spontaneously self-immolating.
Then you have Stephan. He's been whipped into submission after he kicked up so much drama and refuses to do anything interesting. His only viewers are probably equally boring nobodies who make benign smalltalk or offer empty encouragement when he prompts them, assuming they're paying attention. Maybe he does do something interesting, maybe he does take stupid risks which fail spectacularly. I'll never know because I'm not sitting through five hours of droning in hopes this circus clown does a pratfall.
His 15 minutes of fame has long since been over. I had already forgotten him, and today may very well be the last time I remember him ever again. His sole moment in the public mind was a whackjob turned into what effectively is an online sign spinner for Twitch and thinking that gave him any authority. The moment he ditches streaming, his options are to either fade completely into obscurity or get called out for grooming kids like every trans clout chaser who gets just an errant whiff of notoriety.
>Twitch announces new "Trust and Safety Council" to help improve transparency
>One of its members powertrips hard, instigates
gamers by calling them all white supremacist losers
>People dig up embarrassing clips of them acting like a weirdo and dropping some hot takes
>Said member doubles-down, further threatens to get people banned, dances on stream about their new power
>A partner, who's also associated with Twitch, openly shits on dyslexic people for simply having a different opinion
>Large and popular streamers/creators cover the drama and are far less sympathetic toward them being the instigator
>Twitch has to reel them the fuck back in, other members are basically ashamed of this whole fiasco said member caused
>After the dust has long since settled, claims to have been traumatized by the online hate mob when people make retrospective videos
Quite the legacy to leave behind for your streaming career. Hope it was well worth it.
He did a stream today touted as "the last ever" and says he's retiring.
Twitch Vod
I'm too lazy to clip this myself, so if somebody else would be kind enough to do so, that would be appreciated.
Around
5:29:50, a person in stream jokes about how Steph gets named "The CEO of the Internet".
Steph laughs about it, saying "it's about time". Then proceeds to cope about the past harassment they received, claiming that they were (falsely) accused of powertripping because Twitch gave them power that couldn't be taken away, which got the haters to become afraid and lash out. Laughs some more about how people should have been afraid of them because they intended to go after shitty people in the first place, and then rambles about how they want all the power to be given to them.
I'd throw in that done-to-death "With great power" Uncle Ben quote, but really, the major takeaway should be that just because you're given power, that doesn't automatically garner respect. You need to earn that shit if you want people to sympathize with your position, and I guarantee that acting like an egotistical maniac while also instigating groups of people online is not going to get you there.
So yeah, I'm really not surprised to see that absolutely nothing was learned from this whole debacle at all.
