A Twitch streamer played Madden NFL 21 while having a small child on his lap. Because he was doing poorly in the game, he had a tantrum, slammed his controller violently on the table, and yelled at the child. The behavior outrages people online, who even attack the streamer’s family.
This is shown in the clip: The Twitch clip shows a young man with a child. The man is playing the football game Madden NFL 21. In the game, his opponent just made a long pass that the streamer cannot defend. He is already losing at the end of the 2nd quarter, 3-10, and the opponent now has a good chance to score before halftime.
This angers the Twitch streamer so much that he screams and slams his hand with the controller hard onto the table.
Then he looks at the controller and gets upset that the $300 controller is now broken. The child on his lap starts to scream. The man angrily fiddles with the controller and yells whether he can pause. The child continues to scream.
The man then puts the child behind him and says: “Stop it, I need to get away. I’m going to completely lose it otherwise.” When the child screams again, the man turns around and yells at the child to shut the hell up.
Clip goes viral on Twitter and YouTube
This is the reaction to the clip: The clip was shared on Twitter and went viral through retweets. A retweet from the account “Def Noodles” has almost 800,000 views and many angry comments. A YouTube channel with 6.33 million followers also covered the video (via YouTube).
The man’s behavior in the stream is being sharply criticized. It’s called child abuse and the cops should be informed. The outrage on Twitter is enormous.
People are calling for the youth welfare office to be involved.
Who is in the clip? The man in the clip appears to be a very small streamer with 87 followers, with an average of 5 people watching when he streams. Over the past 90 days, he has only been live for 10 hours.
His last stream on January 21 lasted only 25 minutes and was the first in 2 months. The clip is from this stream.
The streamer deleted his Twitch account and social media channels after the public outrage.
Mother says: “My son and I are safe”
What happened next: The clip caused so much outrage that people on the internet found out who the streamer is, where he lives, and who is related to him. Apparently, the situation escalated and some of the streamer’s family were contacted to inform them about their terrible relative. From the family’s perspective, this bordered on harassment.
On Facebook, the streamer’s wife later said: “I appreciate all of you who have inquired about us and expressed your concern. We are taking care of the situation and I can assure you that my son and I are safe. We would like to ask you to pray for our family instead of harassing us.” (via facebook)
Another woman from the family says: She loves all 3 people involved in the story. It was a “devastating misjudgment,” but it should not define the lives of the entire family. The child is safe. The mother has taken all the right steps. People should stop harassing the family and pray for them. (via facebook)
Have there been similar cases on Twitch? The topics “children” and “animals” are absolute hot-button issues on social media. Incidents on Twitch that involve either children or animals traditionally elicit the strongest reactions. In 2019, there was a case where a Twitch streamer threw her cat and kicked her dog. This also outraged the internet. In the same year, there was an incident on Twitch when a streamer got into a physical altercation with his wife and hit her.
How to calmly handle a situation as a streamer when a small child needs attention is shown in an incident from August 2019. A little girl simply turned off her father’s PC during his stream. The CS:GO streamer is known for his rage moments, but he behaved exemplary:
Daughter turns off Twitch streamer’s PC in the middle of a CS:GO match
