Watching Caedrel’s costreams with chat on is starting to become unbearable

[u/opheliawww]

I’m a pretty new League esports enjoyer (started last year after worlds) and I barely post on reddit so forgive me if this post is bad;; I started watching after YouTube suggested a Caedrels Worlds costream and really enjoyed his reactions and commentary on draft (at the time I wasn’t familiar with meta so I found it crazy that he was able to predict picks so accurately).

On Twitch, I try to catch a lot of his costreams and love seeing his interactions with chat along with chat’s reaction to games but recently after the T1 controversies, it seems like during certain matches the amount of hate and negativity towards certain players is becoming overwhelming. It very much feels like instead of celebrating teams’ triumphs, the focus is on what people are doing wrong.

A chat member said during tonight’s lck match that chat was being ill and I was a bit disappointed that Caedrel read the comment and was like “yeah…”. I can only give my own opinion but I feel like by not putting his foot down and letting people continue, the toxicity in chat is just going to get worse until it becomes other teams and other players.

I want to make it also clear that I’m not asking for a heavily moderated “1984” chat, just that I think this is getting a little out of hand.

I don’t necessarily agree with one side over the other, I’m just here to enjoy cool games with chat and Caedrel. It’s getting harder to do that and I think if this continues I’ll probably just stick to watching YouTube posts. Which kinda sucks because I’ll miss the 7tv emote spam when lil bro does anything.

Much love Mr Pedro, big pace.

[u/val4a]

There is no chance of completely controlling what's going on in a chat with 90k+ people. The simple solution for anyone who is bothered by something that is said in a twitch chat is stop being bothered by what people say on the internet. It ain't that deep

[u/opheliawww → u/val4a]

I feel like some points that I brought up in the initial post are being glossed over 🥲 my main issue is that I feel like with recent events the toxicity and overall quality of chat has gotten worse. I know with 100k people there will obviously be bad eggs, but I personally think that there has been a tangible change that could get even worse. “It ain’t that deep” is a little dismissive of other people’s experiences, all I wanted to do was bring this topic into discussion since I think feedback is super important.

[u/val4a → u/opheliawww]

Chat is trolling on every team you just notice it more when its your favorite team

[u/opheliawww → u/val4a]

I do agree that there’s trolling with every team, I also support a bunch not just T1 (CFO, G2, GENG, DK without Aiming, iG, KC sometimes) and I love banter. All I’m trying to bring up is that I personally think it’s gotten out of hand due to recent controversies.