Edit: to clarify, this was not a real swatting. People from Trick2G's team portrayed officers.
This was talked about a bit in the League of Legends thread, but I feel it's pretty relevant for a wider audience in gaming. I'll link the Kotaku article here.
The article goes a lot more in depth and also includes a response from Trick's manager/Twitch staff. The length of Trick's ban hasn't been made public yet. I'm guessing it won't be that long; dude makes a ton of cash for Twitch.
I'm not really sure how to feel about it. Swatting has hurt other streamers' lives, and it's an odd thing to joke about.
You can watch the fake swatting here.
This was talked about a bit in the League of Legends thread, but I feel it's pretty relevant for a wider audience in gaming. I'll link the Kotaku article here.
This past Saturday, the popular League of Legends-focused Twitch streamer Trick2g was putting on an elaborate 24-hour live event to commemorate the fact that he’d amassed 800,000 followers. He decided to end the stream with a bang: staging his own mock swatting. Come Monday morning, his account was banned.
Swatting, in case you don’t know, is a practice by which someone calls in an imaginary violent crime in order to trick the police into sending a SWAT team to the address of the target. Ideally in the swatter’s mind, this is a prank that’s meant to pay off with everyone watching a gameplay stream getting to see the distressed and confused streamer hauled off by a group of heavily armed policemen. That’s the visual Trick2g chose to play on at the end of his 24-hour stream.
The article goes a lot more in depth and also includes a response from Trick's manager/Twitch staff. The length of Trick's ban hasn't been made public yet. I'm guessing it won't be that long; dude makes a ton of cash for Twitch.
I'm not really sure how to feel about it. Swatting has hurt other streamers' lives, and it's an odd thing to joke about.
You can watch the fake swatting here.