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Finnish Streamer Raids and Crashes a Stream
| Authored by Mikko | |
| Wednesday, 13 July 2022 | |
| 2-minute read | |
| #velcuz#ronclevelandoutdoors#drama |
The Finnish Twitch streamer "Velcuz" has raided and crashed a small stream by sending his followers to flood the chatorom.
Velcuz is a Finnish-Ugandan LGBTQ streamer who often streams Just Chatting on Twitch.tv. He identifies as a "Fembaj" and uses he/him pronouns. Often, many people come to harass him and tell him to "stop streaming". However, this time, he gets someone to stop streaming.
RonClevelandOutdoors is an American outdoors streamer who often streams Travel & Outdoors on Twitch.tv
Crashing the Stream With No Survivors
Velcuz was watching a small stream of 70 viewers. His chat then raided the stream and flooded the chat with unwanted messages. Even though most of the messages were eventually deleted, and most of the participants were banned, their messages were still read through their TTS system.
Text-to-speech (TTS) is a system that converts text into human-like speech. It is sort of like a robot reading to you. On Twitch, users can donate or send messages to activate the text-to-speech system and generate speech on the stream.
In RonClevelandOutdoor's case, every message sent in their chatroom was sent to their TTS system. With hundreds of people chatting, their TTS system basically had to process a lot of messages. This led to their stream crashing.
Will Velcuz Get Banned?
It is currently unknown whether Velcuz will get banned or warned for this incident, especially since he is an LGBTQ streamer and identity as a "Fembaj". Depending on how Twitch handles the situation, Velcuz can either be penalized as a male streamer, which is usually an indefinite ban, or as a female streamer, which is usually a warning.
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