The 21-year-old streamer Chang Wing Yee is known on Twitch under the name Kiraakitty. She had come up with a clever plan to fake the theft of her smartphone to spice up a stream on Twitch. But it went horribly wrong. Instead of dealing with the situation, she quickly ended the stream.
This was the situation:
- The 21-year-old Twitch streamer from Singapore filmed herself in a stream, sitting in a library and supposedly studying to become a doctor.
- She flipped through books, took notes, nibbled on a pen – just how one studies.
- Meanwhile, she filmed herself with a smartphone. Twitch users saw the prompt “Donate to me if you think I’m cute.”
Twitch streamer fakes theft of her own smartphone – But she trips up
This is the clip: Suddenly something happened in the stream, the streamer herself was not visible. But the phone with which Kiraakitty was filming seemed to be moving. Surely by a thief who wanted to steal the precious phone.
You can hear quick footsteps, the camera races through the narrow book aisles of the library. We witness a “Grand Theft Telephone” live in the front row.
But then the supposed thief stumbles, the phone flips over and shows Kiraakitty’s face: She had only pretended to have her own smartphone stolen. You can still hear her giggling, then the stream ends.
How does the streamer deal with it? The 21-year-old simply ended the stream, probably to spare herself the embarrassment of having to explain her behavior to the viewers.
But that was apparently her mistake.
“Would change my name and leave the country”
What are the reactions? The clip has now over 224,000 views and is also being discussed on reddit :
There, it is said that the streamer reacted completely wrong to the situation. She should have declared it as a joke afterwards. It was only because she turned off the stream that it became so terribly embarrassing.
Other users say:
- “I would change my name and leave the country if I had been caught doing something like this.”
- “She just wants people to send her money so she doesn’t have to pretend to study anymore.”
- “Just think about how you must be to come up with something like this”
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