League of Legends is known for its toxic community, but many YouTubers and streamers are also known for their outbursts and rages in streams or videos. One content creator is Shaclone, of whom barely anything remains of his success today.
As League of Legends gained significant popularity among players around 2014, the YouTube and Twitch scenes also rose, and many created successful content about the game. This included Shaclone.
- German content creator, who produces content in English
- Plays almost exclusively the champion Shaco in League of Legends
- Produces content accordingly about this champ
- Even reached Challenger as a Shaco-OTP
At the beginning of his YouTube career, he was quite successful. His most successful video reached 2.3 million views, and many of his videos at that time were also in the middle 6-digit range.
He had caught the pulse of the times for LoL videos and produced popular edits with music while commenting on gameplay around his champion. However, one of his characteristics is also a very toxic behavior.
Toxic behavior has always been a problem in LoL and Riot is constantly trying to tackle it:
How Toxicity Ended His Career
As KiraTV summarizes in his YouTube video, Shaclone was incredibly toxic. When his teammates didn’t play well enough in his opinion, he insulted them mercilessly in the game itself, as well as in the stream or video. These were not just simple insults, he regularly wished death upon his mates.
Accordingly, it didn’t take long for Riot to take action and banned his main account in Season 6. After that, he started several games and streams where he trolled to take away the joy of the game from other players. His accounts were regularly banned, but he constantly bought new ones to troll.
However, with his ban and his increasingly toxic behavior, his numbers on Twitch and YouTube also declined. Looking at the numbers of his current videos, he doesn’t even reach 4000 views (via YouTube)
In January 2017, he had almost 600 average viewers on Twitch. Nowadays, he averages not even 100 (via twitchtracker.com).
What is Shaclone Doing Today?
Not much has changed in his content. On YouTube, he still publishes edited gameplay videos, just with significantly less success than during his prime time. He still regularly streams League of Legends on Twitch.
His toxic behavior has hardly changed though. You can find reddit threads from last year complaining about his behavior and why he isn’t banned.
KiraTV poses a valid question in his video: Why does he still play the game he hates so much?
He highlights the following answer: Shaclone has no self-reflection.
Both in LoL itself and in LoL as content, what the people want to see changes quickly, and the type of streamer has also changed over time. Watching the same outbursts will eventually bore viewers, especially if the streamer no longer enjoys the game. At the same time, this does not attract new viewers.
A significantly more pleasant content creator in LoL can be found with this German top laner:
