The streamer Erobb221 set himself an almost impossible task on Twitch: he wanted to solve a 1,000-piece puzzle live on Twitch. Especially tricky: the puzzle was completely black, with no visual clues on how the pieces fit together. After 12 days of live streaming, the project came to an end, not because the puzzle was complete, but because Twitch banned the streamer.
What an action was that? The streamer Erobb221 had announced he would put together a 1,000-piece puzzle in the stream. All pieces of the puzzle were black.
As Sports Illustrated reports, after the first 2 hours, he had only put together 3 pieces.
After 288 hours live on Twitch, Erobb was said to have been at the end of his strength. It’s said that after almost 2 weeks he was “extremely tired, hungry, and frustrated” – then came the relieving ban from Twitch.
Erobb is the brother and long-time rival of Tyler1:
Erobb has to wipe the puzzle off the table because he gets caught cheating
How did the puzzling go? Not well at all. Erobb painstakingly built the border and then realized he would need about 1 hour per piece, with 860 pieces still to go.
As he got a good ways through, about 33 hours into the stream, viewers exposed him for cheating, and Erobb decided to wipe the puzzle off the table and restart. By then, he was already pretty worn out.
The chat had realized that the streamer had apparently numbered the puzzle pieces to make solving it easier. An observant viewer caught him doing this and repeatedly posted it in the chat (via reddit).
Puzzle streamer banned for copyright infringement
Why was Erobb banned? It is believed that X received a “DMCA strike” because he watched an episode of “South Park” live on stream.
This is the assumption: An experienced streamer like Erobb knows that this is a clear violation of copyright guidelines and will result in a ban.
Therefore, many now assume that he might have provoked the ban from Twitch to escape from his own challenge with the puzzle.
Many suspect: He intentionally got himself banned to escape the puzzle hell
Even his own brother and long-time rival Tyler1 seems to believe this. When asked about the ban, he says: “Erobb? Why was he banned? […] Well, hopefully it’s permanent! He watched South Park on stream? Did he intentionally get himself banned so he wouldn’t have to finish the puzzle?”
In the comments, it seems that people aren’t going to let Erobb off so easily: the run is clearly incomplete and must be repeated – and from the beginning, savage Reddit users say.
Did anyone watch it? It’s like many of these events: In the first hours, the event went excellently, and Erobb had an average of 111,000 viewers, but then the numbers dropped rapidly. He was constantly streaming and alternating between puzzling and sleeping, but after the initial hype, he had only “relatively normal viewer numbers” of around 3,000. Recently, we’ve checked out some streamers where the cash is rolling: We calculated how much 8 German-speaking streamers earn per hour on Twitch
