Dota 2 Player gets robbed on stream
On June 9th, 2014, Twitch streamer Nikki Elise, otherwise known by her Twitch handle as Sajedene, was robbed at gunpoint while she was streaming Dota 2 on Twitch. Sajedene was living with her boyfriend at the time. Her viewers quickly informed police about the home robbery and police was quick to act. We now know that at least one of the robbers was arrested. Sajedene and her boyfriend was unharmed.
Twitch Chat finishes Pokemon Red
Each Twitch stream comes with a chatroom where viewers can interact with both the streamer and other viewers. The chatroom is commonly known as Twitch Chat. An anonymous Australian programmer decided to conduct a social experiment where s/he streamed Pokemon Red and allowed viewers to input commands to the game via Twitch Chat. This quickly drew the attention of hundreds of thousands of people and at one time there was 120,000 concurrent viewers. The stream had an average viewer count of 80,000.
The stream was launched on February 12th, 2014 and after more than 16 days of continuous gameplay, Twitch Chat managed to complete Pokemon Red on March 1st. Pokemon Red is by no means a short game and with tens of thousands of people playing at a time, it is a wonder that the game was ever completed.
Streamer gets raided by a SWAT team
On December 30th, 2013, hacker group Derp decided to start harassing League of Legends streamer PhantomL0rd, or James Verga. It involved the group initially taking down League of Legend's game servers. As a result, Verga started playing other games like Dota 2 and Club Penguin and these games were subsequently taken down as well by Derp. The whole event even included a bizarre Q&A session between Verga's viewers and the hacker group where the group's motives were questioned. They're answer? "The lulz". At one point, Verga's stream had 130,000 concurrent viewers.
Besides taking down whatever game Verga tried to play, Derp also managed to obtain Verga's personal information and released it to the public. This information included his address and resulted in several fake pizza delivery orders to his house, as well as a SWAT raid on the house when they received fake reports of a hostage situation. This was all caught on camera.
In wake of the attacks, the Derp group was heavily criticised online. The criticism centered on their lack of clear motives and many accused Derp of doing this solely for attention. PhantomL0rd came out of the unharmed and significantly more popular.
House burnt down on stream
On October 4th 2015, a Japanese streamer accidentally burnt down his house while streaming Minecraft.
The whole ordeal starts with the streamer trying to light his cigarette with a lighter. He repeatedly strikes against it trying to get a flame and eventually manages to ignite the fuel. However, the excess fuel on the lighter also ignites and the burning lighter leads him to absentmindedly throw the still-burning fuse into a bag full of paper. The fire grows quickly and the streamer makes a fatal mistake: he tries to douse the flames using a CARDBOARD BOX. This causes the flames to grow uncontrollably and he now sensibly tries to stop it with a blanket and then small bowls of water. This is, however, too late and the streamer finally flees the room as the fire has now become a mini inferno. All the while, the stream is still turned on.
The streamer (age 40) lives with three other people in the two story home, including his father (68) and mother (73). Four people were injured, suffering from burns and other unspecified injuries. This includes the above three people and a female relative (62) that lives nearby. About 30% of the home burned down (37 square meters out of a total of 125).
Neighbour attempts a robbery
On January 1st, 2015, at around 11:30 pm, Twitch streamer Mr_13ig was streaming when police knocked on the door of his apartment as a result of a noise complaint. Mr_13ig refused to give his name to the police since he believed he did nothing wrong. He was promptly arrested due to his refusal to cooperate.
He didn't have a chance to turn off his stream and a few moments after the arrest, his neighbour enters the unlocked, unoccupied apartment in full view of the broadcasting camera and proceeds to rob Mr_13ig. The neighbour was unaware he was on stream and Mr_13ig's viewers promptly called and informed the police of the robbery. The neighbour was justly arrested and is now in prison on felony charges.