The beta of Valorant is still playable only through Twitch Drops. Now that every streamer is distributing drops, some are continuously streaming old content to keep their channel active. This is significantly bothering top streamer Jaryd “summit1g” Lazard.
What bothers Summit1g so much? summit1g (5 million followers) is by far the most successful streamer on Twitch in the beta of Valorant. However, some of his streamer colleagues are really annoying him right now.
Since Riot Games activated Twitch Drops – still the only way to get into the beta of Valorant – for all Valorant streamers, some have been continuously streaming their content on Twitch.
And numerous viewers tune in to finally get a coveted drop with a beta invite.
24/7 content stream from a can is not okay!
This is the problem with the constant streams: Summit1g streams a lot and hits 97 hours in 7 days. That averages 14 hours a day, which is a lot.
But a competitor among the top streamers of Valorant is getting numbers like 138 hours in 7 days (almost 20 hours a day). One Twitch streamer was even on air for 164 hours in 7 days.
That would be 24 hours a day, which is simply impossible for a human.
The logic is: Anyone who streams more than 14 hours a day does not send exclusively live content but mixes it with old recorded material, which the streamers probably play in continuous broadcast without using the “rerun” option from Twitch. According to Summit1g, that would be in very poor taste:
All you are doing is harming every single person among you. Eight, 12, 15 hours a day… as long as you are there, no problem, I understand, I do it too. I’m damn grinding the shit out of this thing because I know what it means for my channel.
So anyone who is constantly online without sending something new is pushing aside all the streamers below them who probably have “real” live content.
According to Summit1g, it is also not a shame to enable the rerun option for such repetitions. Because sending repeats in the livestream channel over Twitch simply does not work, according to summit1g: “I don’t understand this shit, it’s a livestream platform!”
Finally, Summit1g had one simple piece of advice: “Do your damn job, it’s really not that hard!” were his final words on this topic.
Here’s more Twitch stories: Another streamer who recently caused trouble in Valorant was the notorious Dr Disrespect. He falsely claimed to be offering Twitch Drops, even though he couldn’t at that time. He has since released a notoriously nasty statement.
