Actually, free subs are a nice gift that you can give to others on Twitch. The streamer and roleplayer Jack experienced during a session GTA Online that these can also be quite “dangerous” and even yelled at his own viewers because they kept giving him subs. But what is the problem?
Who is he anyway? Jack primarily shows on his Twitch channel with around 123,000 followers how he plays as a roleplayer on the large NoPixel server in GTA Online.
There he embodies the character “Jack ‘Cookie’ Knox.” However, during a recent session, the streamer had reasons for frustration. Some jokers among his viewers drove him quite mad with gifted subs.
What’s the deal with these subs? Normally, a subscription on Twitch costs money. However, you can also gift a subscription to others, which allows the streamer to potentially gain new subscribers who otherwise would not want to pay.
Therefore, this is actually a nice gesture. However, in Jack’s case, this gesture was used to troll the streamer at the same time.
Because while Jack ‘Cookie’ Knox was in the middle of a fight, they found it funny to gift him free subs. With each of these subs, an animation with voice and sound effect activates, which can be quite distracting and even cause his game to stutter.
This consequently led to the in-game death of the streamer, who did not find it funny at all. Here you can watch that part of the stream:
“Hey, you are making me lose!”
At first, the streamer thanked for the subs, but noted that they were making his game stutter. Initially, he politely asked them to stop: “Guys, you’re making my game lag, please stop. I’m in enemy territory.”
However, as the situation in the game became more hectic, the gifted subs annoyed him more and he became increasingly loud.
Eventually, Jack was shot just a few seconds after a sub had disrupted his firefight. He could only keep shouting: “Stop gifting me subs, stop gifting me subs! I CAN’T play!”
After Jack bit the dust in-game, his viewers naturally did not stop but kept gifting him more subs. The chat was lively and fun, as the viewers were having a blast at Jack’s expense, whom they call the Cookieman.
They were completely beside themselves, aside from the gifted subs there were virtually only messages like “OMEGALUL” and more subs continuously pouring in on the streamer.
Some even instructed others to gift even more subs, while others mocked the streamer’s PC. In the end, Jack disabled some of the annoying notifications to counteract the trolls.
Overall, it was annoying for the Twitch streamer, but when he watched the scenes again, he started laughing himself. It must have been a delightful fun for his viewers, as the chat was certainly out of control.
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