I'm 1:59 hours into a stream of House Flipper, quietly fixing up a bedroom for the enjoyment of a single viewer - who may or may not have even been watching - when the chat came to life.
"DOC RAID"
"DOC RAID"
By the time I noticed the chat, it was unusable. All caps racial slurs were clogging Twitch's AutoMod feature, and a baying crowd was commenting on everything from my quiet voice, to a lazy eye and my autism.
Random men on the internet have been screaming at me for the length of my game journalism career, but in this specific case I was baffled. How exactly had we got here?
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The answer, as it often is in these cases, was a tweet. It was a throwaway statement I had made that lacks a lot of context, responding to a tweet from PC Gamer's editor-in-chief Evan Lahti, which a few of my friends had jumped onto.
Lahti highlighted a tweet from streamer Dr DisRespect suggesting that if he didn't get his own PUBG skin in the next five days, he'd stop playing the game.
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