The Twitch streamer Papaplatte participated in 7 vs. Wild and was criticized by some viewers there for his language. They say it is a nasty “Denglish” gibberish. The 26-year-old shows understanding, but he is struggling to adapt to the new language hygiene in practice.
What is Papaplatte being criticized for?
- The streamer Papaplatte has already been pointed out by older colleagues like Knossi that he frequently incorporates English words and phrases into the German language – his fans know him only this way.
- But during his participation in 7 vs. Wild, some other viewers also got to know the streamer and criticized him for his language.
- Papaplatte can understand this criticism. He himself sometimes finds the English phrases in his German to be too much. However, making a significant change is difficult for him.
Critics of Papaplatte, like Scurrows, also call the streamer the “German xQc” – the Canadian, however, speaks even worse:
“He got on my nerves with his language”
This was the post that criticized him: On reddit, a post titled “Back to Mother Tongue” appeared regarding 7 vs. Wild. The user stated: At the beginning of the season of 7 vs. Wild, he could not listen to Papaplatte at all. There was too much “Bro – Real Talk – No Joke”.
The user writes: That really got on my nerves.
However, as the season progressed, it got better, until he could listen to him well later on. Then, without any English interjections, Papaplatte even appeared serious and reasonable.
But now that he is back home and reacting to content on Twitch, it is again “Denglish gibberish at its finest.”
“Realtalk” – “Honestly speaking”
“No Joke” – “I mean it seriously”
“You know” – “You know”
“Bro” – all-purpose word, can mean anything depending on emphasis
This is how Papaplatte reacts to the criticism: The 26-year-old shows surprisingly understanding. When he is streaming, he does not notice it at all. But when he listens to recordings of himself, he often finds it too much. He wants to tone it down a bit right now. Often it’s just unnecessary.
But even in the video itself, it becomes clear how difficult it will be for him to pay attention to his language:
“I’m also trying to tone it down a bit. It sometimes annoys me a little bit.”
He watches English creators, you know. Sometimes it really is unnecessary to use so many English things, you know.
In response to another user’s criticism that he makes fun of colleagues too often, Papaplatte also responded confidently and apologized to Rumathra: “Oh yeah, man. Realtalk, Wieland, I’m sorry.”
There seems to be a long way ahead of him, no joke.
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