Shroud Gives His Thoughts on Twitch Chat and Streamer Trash Talking

Former Cloud9 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) player Michael "shroud" Gresiek has risen to be one of the top streamers on the Amazon owned streaming platform of Twitch. Entertaining viewers with his high skill level and impressive gameplay in battle royale titles, especially in Player Unknowns Battlegrounds (PUBG), shroud routinely pulls in tens of thousands of viewers every stream. 

With a very large following, shroud's Twitch chat is one of the most active on the platform and it, like many other streamers' chats on Twitch, never shies away from giving its opinion on certain matters. This includes instances where streamers engage in trash talking with one another when competing against each other in certain titles. However, shroud believes that twitch chats can often take the friendly banter to an extreme level that is not needed and explained his thoughts on the matter during a recent stream of his. 

"It’s fun when streamers bicker and kind of like talk shit to each other in the game. That’s great, but like the message that gets received or sent when that happens is so wrong it’s crazy. Ya’ll need to relax. If you want to enjoy, this just relax on your fingers. Keyboard warriors just relax. Just watch. You don’t have to type in Twitch. You don’t have to," said shroud. "I know Twitch chat is a very very big thing that’s why so many people love instead of YouTube and all that other shit, their chats just not as cool. But, just, you don’t need it. Just relax with your little fingers. Just relax, enjoy the good fun. Let them talk shit to each other and have some good banter.”

A clear example of the fanbases for Twitch streamers taking things said by a player too far occurred Friday, June 1st during Week 4 of the KEEMSTAR Friday Fortnite Tournament, as many people reacted very negatively to a tweet from Tyler "Ninja" Belvins about the matchup between FaZe Clan duo Tfue and Dennis "Cloakzy" lepore and Team SoloMid players Ali "Myth" Kabbani and Hamlinz. 

reading a lot of the comments from my last tweet... don't get it twisted.. @TTfue and @cloakzy are freaks and absolutely dominated like always. Pumped for next Friday.

— Ninja (@Ninja) June 2, 2018

While it was not specifically Twitch chat taking the banter between streamers too seriously, the response to Ninja's tweet is very similar to what shroud was describing and speaking out against regarding Twitch chat's strong reactions to what streamers say to one another in a competitive setting. 

(cover photo courtesy of Diaro AS)