In a recent stream, Twitch streamer Metashi12 talks about an incident from his early years when he was tricked by a viewer and the consequences he has now drawn.
Who is the streamer? Metashi12 has been active on Twitch since at least 2016 and has built up a loyal, steadily growing fan base over the years. In the last three months, an average of more than 3,500 viewers tuned into his streams (via Twitchtracker).
He became particularly well-known through his streams of the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft, which he presented for an impressive 6,500 hours on his channel.
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Even though Metashi12 is now a successful streamer on Twitch, he also had to start small. In a recent stream, he talks about the challenges of his beginnings and how he was tricked by a viewer early in his career.
“That was a big deal”
What were the beginnings like? Metashi12 talks about the time when his streams were watched by an average of only about ten viewers. According to Sullygnome, that must have been around 2017, seven to eight years ago. At that time, he had around 5,000 followers.
He explains that back then, Twitch didn’t have gift subs or similar revenue streams like those that are common today. Direct donations were the main source of income. But Metashi12 wanted more and looked for creative ways to offer a subscription model that worked similarly to Twitch partners.
He tells how he eventually discovered a third-party platform where viewers could take out a subscription. According to him, he called these subscriptions “Dream-Subs” and charged 50 euros a month for them. In return, viewers could choose a game that he then had to play on the stream for three hours. “That was a big deal,” says Metashi12. There was actually one viewer who took up this offer.
What did the streamer provide in return? Metashi12 says of this viewer: “He made me play some really weird shit. A Playstation 1 game that I had to play with an emulator. It was called Big Rigs. And then he made me play Need for Speed on a Nintendo DS emulator.”
Although he describes the games in the stream as very entertaining, the situation took an unexpected turn: the viewer subsequently withdrew the money. This means that Metashi12 streamed the games as promised, but in the end did not receive any money for them.
Viewer returns to his streams after all these years
What happened now? About three months ago, this same viewer returned to Metashi12’s stream, now that the streamer is much more successful. The viewer wrote in the chat and asked if Metashi12 still remembered him. Metashi confirmed this and immediately took action: the viewer was permanently banned from his channel.
What does it mean to get a permanent ban? A ban on Twitch means that a user no longer has access to the channel. They can no longer watch the stream, write in the chat, or interact with the channel in any other way.
While in this case a viewer cheated the streamer out of his money, there are also examples where it’s the other way around. The English streamer “ItsSlikeR” cheated his viewers and fellow content creators out of large amounts of money with emotional stories. You can find out more about this here: Twitch streamer cheated his friends and fans out of 300,000 euros – what is he doing today?