The Twitch streamer Niklas “Niekbeats” Grosse talked about his fellow streamers and why he no longer wants to publicly criticize their potential misconduct. Instead, he wants to primarily focus on himself.
What does the Twitch streamer say? The Twitch streamer Niekbeats is currently playing Pokémon Leaf Green in his streams. Meanwhile, he regularly talks with his viewers.
Recently, he spoke about how he mentally distances himself from the misconduct of his streaming colleagues. Instead of publicly criticizing missteps, he prefers to concentrate on his own behavior and streams. According to Niekbeats, public criticism is too exhausting and not very productive.
But basically, at the end of the day, everyone has to fall on their own nose. I really don’t want to take responsibility for others. And I also don’t want to point fingers at everyone like Veni or other creators and criticize everything. I really did that for a while. But it’s super exhausting for oneself and it doesn’t really change much at the end of the day.
Niekbeats via YouTube from minute 05:19:46
If someone asks Niekbeats for his opinion on something, he would still honestly share his thoughts on it, says the Twitch streamer. Just not voluntarily anymore.
Collaborations only with selected colleagues
What’s behind it? A similar statement was made by the Twitch streamer HandOfBlood in a SPIEGEL interview. He also went through a phase, especially from 2014 to 2017, where he publicly criticized the misconduct of YouTube colleagues. Nowadays, HandOfBlood doesn’t do that so often anymore.
On one hand, I often attacked others. As a result, I was also often attacked. And everything I said from then on was scrutinized by my community, rightly so. Eventually, I asked myself whether this was the right way to constantly create stress beyond gaming videos.
HandOfBlood on DER SPIEGEL
What else does Niekbeats mean? Furthermore, Niekbeats says that he has adjusted with whom he collaborates among his streaming colleagues. In the world of content creators, it is often unavoidable to come into contact with colleagues who do not fully align with one’s values.
When collaborating with streamers whose behavior he condemns, Niekbeats would put his negative thoughts aside to collaborate with them for a certain period. However, he draws a clear line: in cases of extreme misconduct, he simply declines collaboration altogether.
Niekbeats seems to have found himself more and more as a Twitch streamer. In the past, he often lost words about the profession and especially about the community. He also admonished his audience not to idealize Twitch streamers.
Currently, Niekbeats is immersing himself in the Leaf Green edition of Pokémon. On Twitch, he recently started a new adventure in Kanto and revealed to his chat that he believes in the swapping of two Pokémon sprites: A German streamer on Twitch is sure that 2 Pokémon from the first 151 were swapped: “Fits much better”
