The Twitch streamer Lacari exploded in a stream. Because a certain behavior from some viewers annoys him and drives him crazy. Some viewers vehemently urged him to play Persona 4 – but when he finally played it, there were no more viewers left.
Who is that?
- Lacari is a medium-sized gaming streamer from San Antonio, Texas.
- When he is on Twitch, he mostly plays League of Legends or Super Mario. On average, about 1,700 people watch him.
- Lacari has been on Twitch for a long time, streaming about 2,000 hours a year for years.
Viewer wishes drive streamers to explode
What annoys him so much: The wishes of viewers about what he should show on Twitch drove Lacari to white heat in one stream. In a recent stream, it was again the case that viewers told him what he should play. But he no longer complied.
Lacari explains: He hasn’t told anyone yet, but one thing has apparently been bothering him for a long time, which he has “locked away inside himself,” yet it is simmering in him.
Once he was literally spammed by his chat, saying he should play Persona 4. “Just play it – Let’s play Persona 4 – Come on, play Persona 4 – Wow, I can’t wait for you to play Persona 4,” it went in the chat, explains Lacari. So he complied – since there was so much enthusiasm.
He then waited 10 minutes for the chat to calm down and then played Persona 4.
But among the people who loudly demanded he should play Persona 4, no one was left at that time:
“I waited for 10 minutes for the chat to calm down and then I check: And none of the filthy sons of bitches who spammed Persona 4 were still there! Not a single one! Not one f***ing guy! And now you are mad at me because I am playing Variety. Then shut up.”
“Super-fans” – the plague on the internet
What’s behind it: The phenomenon he describes here are players who are such big fans of a game that they become unpaid “PR managers” or “lobbyists” for the game and want to ensure that as many others as possible see the game. Therefore, they urge people with reach to show or report on the game.
They themselves do not watch the content they demand because they already know everything and have long found their sources from which they derive their material.
“People demanding things they don’t even make use of” is really something that drives content creators to white heat.
Even worse are people who additionally defend a game against any criticism, however justified. These players are called “White Knights.” These players often appear in crowdfunding games, where developers firmly expect such a “Our players form a wagon train around our game and protect it from the evil outsiders” situation.
Especially “cult games” like Persona 4 trigger this lobbying behavior. We also know on MeinMMO that fans of certain, “somehow underestimated” games repeatedly demand that we should write more about these gaming gems – yet when we actually do, apparently not even these people read and comment on that content.
As an example, in the MMO area, games like The Secret World, Final Fantasy XIV, or Warframe can serve – all somehow games that certainly deserve more attention than they receive, yet have a strong player lobby.
We have already described a woman who expressed her love for a game in a similar way:
21-year-old gets 22 men on Tinder to buy Nier: Automata – Never talks to them again
