Livestream Fails

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About

Livestream Fails are a slang term for moments when streamers, who are oftentimes prominent on Twitch, make a mistake on camera. These moments have spawned a community centered in the subreddit /r/LivestreamFail. In addition to being a place to discuss mistakes made by popular streamers, the subreddit has become a prominent place where YouTube drama is discussed.

Origin

The earliest use of the term "Live Webcast Fail" on YouTube was posted January 29th, 2010 by YouTuber Roland Pelletier, reposting a 2008 video showing Brad of the 4 Player Network podcast livestreaming himself livestreaming, causing a glitch (shown below).

Spread

The term saw more use several years later, as several "Livestream Fails" were posted to YouTube in 2014. These include a video by elmolinger that gained over 900,000 views (shown below, left) and a post by OHH EpiC that gained over 53,000 views (shown below, right).

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/r/LivestreamFail was started on June 7th, 2015 by Redditor ChanmanVXXIII.^[1] Over the following four years, the subreddit would grow to over 509,000 subscribers and became a premiere destination to talk about drama between YouTube and Twitch streamers. As of May 24th, 2019, top posts on the subreddit include dialogue^[2]between Ninja and YouTuber 51L (shown below, left) and Deadmau5 quitting Twitch^[3] (shown below, right).

The group has also had major threads on internet dramas such as the Projared Cheating Scandal, ^[4] Sweet Anita, ^[5] and MrDeadMoth's Domestic Violence Twitch Stream. ^[6]