Streamers invest their time to entertain others online. However, many viewers use this to troll the streamers. This was recently experienced by a Korean streamer when she suffered for three hours from a nasty action of her viewers during a match in League of Legends and was subsequently banned by Riot Games.
Many viewers are grateful for the entertainment provided by Twitch streamers and YouTubers. However, there are also numerous ones who instead play tricks. From relatively harmless pranks to really dangerous actions like swatting, the trolling individuals often find any means justified.
On reddit, the story of a Korean streamer is going around, who was trolled by her viewers while she played League of Legends. So-called stream snipers allegedly took their chance and made the streamer’s life difficult.
This is often done to gain an unfair advantage over the streamer and to know what they are doing, how they play, and where they are located. The knowledge gained from the stream is used by stream snipers to find an easy target in the streamer and to score an easy kill without much effort.
Stream sniping is banned in many games and on many servers, is considered unfair, and is often punished by a ban.
How was the streamer trolled? According to a reddit post, the streamer suffered from so-called stream snipers who were in her match in League of Legends and pursued a nasty plan: The trolls kept the streamer’s ranked match going for over three hours.
Two of the stream snipers were likely on the streamer’s team and prevented the attempt to surrender the match. Two were on the opposing team. Together, they prevented the end of the match and dragged it out further.
A screenshot on reddit shows that the match lasted at least 216 minutes (3.6 hours). In addition, the streamer reportedly died over 120 times and was subsequently banned by Riot Games according to reddit user u/Ichsterb.
The video of the stream is no longer available as the streamer has set the visibility to “private”.
Why was the streamer banned? Because the stream snipers kept the match going for three hours and were represented on both teams, the streamer accumulated over 120 in-game deaths. According to u/Ichsterb, the trolls reported her using Riot Games’ report system for “negative behavior & intentional losing”.
Additionally, the streamer couldn’t simply leave the match, as she would also receive a ban for leaving early.
But not only the Korean streamer suffers from stream snipers. Recently, xQc, one of the biggest Twitch streamers in the world, was wrongly banned on a DayZ server because he was attacked by a stream sniper.
Major Twitch streamer gets banned in the Steam hit DayZ because an unfair person watched him play
