
‘Stream Sniping’ Has Become a Nightmare for IRL Creators — But What Is It?
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Twitch and YouTube streamers like Valkyrae and IShowSpeed have been approached by fans IRL, often with terrifying results
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Subscribe NowTwitch and YouTube streamers like Valkyrae and IShowSpeed have been approached by fans IRL, often with terrifying results
The singer’s “Where Do We Go? The Livestream” show aired Saturday from a stage enhanced by moody, immersive visuals and XR effects that punched up the ambitions of pay-per-view music.
“We are absolutely overloaded — we’ve never had this much interest in our entire existence,” says one livestreaming-company founder, as the previously shunned technology gains steam