At Twitch, there was an awkward moment during the Fortnite tournament award ceremony by Mcky at gamescom LAN 2025.
What kind of situation is this? From February 21 to February 23, 2025, the gamescom LAN took place, an event where tournaments in more than a dozen current games were held. Among them was Twitch streamer MckyTV, whose tournament had a total prize pool of €20,000.
A young player named tilted secured 1st place and thus €10,000. However, an awkward moment occurred during the award ceremony.
Other streamers score points by being particularly nice to their viewers.
“Why are you not nice?”
What went wrong? Just when the winner was determined, MckyTV answered nature’s call: He stepped away for a short bathroom break and promised to conduct the award ceremony shortly. However, his co-moderator, the Twitch streamer HoneyPuu, apparently did not really catch on. HoneyPuu is one of the biggest streamers on German Twitch.
A brief chaos ensued, in which the streamer eventually set off to interview the lucky winner. However, the resulting conversation was difficult to endure for those prone to secondhand embarrassment:
What was so bad? HoneyPuu tried to start a conversation and asked the player about his mood, personal background, and his rank in League of Legends – but he remained rather taciturn. The awkward atmosphere was also commented on in the chat, prompting the streamer to justify herself: she did not know she was supposed to take over, she was not good at small talk.
Eventually, the streamer stopped her efforts. Minutes of painfully awkward silence followed, as both waited for MckyTV to return and rescue them.
It might have remained an awkward but harmless situation if HoneyPuu hadn’t decided to break the silence with a question. In front of over 5,000 viewers watching at the time, she asked: “Why are you not nice?”
You can see the moment here:
The streamer accused the 19-year-old of simply not being a nice person. She then said goodbye with the words: “Sit down and enjoy that you’ve received money.” As she walked away, she added: “Isn’t that crazy.”
How do the viewers react? In the chat, many viewers felt sorry for the winner: he was nice, just nervous and maybe a bit tired – after all, it was around 11:30 PM at that point, and the tournament had been going on for several hours.
Some of the comments from the winner about the streamer’s interview skills and the declining viewer numbers were, however, difficult for the audience to understand.
In a statement, HoneyPuu explained that she reacted that way only because of those jabs. She feels justified but also admits that she could have handled it more professionally.
Streamer digs herself deeper with her reaction
How it continued: The clip was discussed in several videos on TikTok and YouTube last week. Opinion blogger AlphaKevin accused HoneyPuu of “extreme disrespect and arrogance.”
Many viewers judge that the 19-year-old was nervous and that HoneyPuu made him look foolish in front of thousands of viewers. Others, however, point out that the streamer also visibly felt uncomfortable in her moderation role.
The video from February 27 is now unavailable due to a copyright strike. Having a video taken down instead of resolving the conflict privately is extremely frowned upon among influencers, as it causes a significant loss of income, and repeated strikes can even lead to bans. Twitch streamer receives hate messages for breaking the golden rule of conflict on the internet
