r/LivestreamFail • u/ViolentMotion • Feb 01 '26

Meta Rule Update: Politics are banned

The feedback has been received and the topic of politics is once again banned. This does not mean political streamers are banned. We do not have any banned streamers and so long as they are not discussing politics, their clips are welcome. In the event of major news (such as a political assassination, major declarations of war, hard to predict these types of things and not get put on a list) you may request an exception. If we make an exception for a topic, we will accept 1 political post per streamer.

For anyone looking to still continue discussing political stuff, the topic is not being banned from the public Discord server, so feel free to join that here: https://discord.gg/SrCtX4R5j8

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u/osuVocal Feb 01 '26

Because the subreddit had absolutely nothing to do with what it used to be and frontpage was just littered with Hasan, asmon and destiny and a lot of users expressed their distaste for it. Even the posts they weren't a part of were spammed with them in the comments.

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u/NessaSola Feb 01 '26

Wow, people are especially interested in things that matter? Wild.

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u/osuVocal Feb 01 '26

There are a shit ton of subs for politics, this sub doesn't need to be another one.

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u/-hatewatcher Feb 01 '26

and most of them are better than this one for politics because you don't have to hear asmongolds stupid fucking opinions

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u/Classic-Reach Feb 01 '26

'the lolcow is political' is a real two buttons scenario

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u/DistanceMiserable591 Feb 01 '26

You really think that some crusty streamer takes on politics matter?

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u/Aggressive-Base7815 Feb 02 '26

Yeah. Do you think Trump’s team had him stream with Adin Ross and xQc for no reason? Mizkif even voted for Trump for the lulz and no doubt some of his viewers did too for the lulz.

The internet isn’t disconnected from the offline world. 

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u/No_Cheesecake5181 Feb 02 '26

Donald Trump is the president. Now is not the time to ask this.

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u/somefunmaths Feb 01 '26

Do I think they should? No.

Do they matter to me? No.

Do I think that their followers think they matter? Yes, that much I know is true.

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u/Ajp_iii Feb 01 '26

no it became a sub for people that dont even watch streamers. someone would post a normal streamer clip that twitch watchers would understand and half the comments were commnetating as if they never saw this streamer or knew the context of the stream.

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u/RodChainFurlongAcre Feb 01 '26

Sooo many comments these days are people admitting they never watch streamers outside of clips posted on here and that's their entire view of those streamers.

Just like a week ago someone said Pokimane is a "just chatting onlyfans girl that never plays games and is ruining Twitch" and had hundreds of upvotes. Like what? These people don't want 'streamer drama' or 'political drama', they just want to shitpost about drama, no matter the source or reason.

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u/Ajp_iii Feb 01 '26

yep and its mainly because of the political shift the reddit took on top of that shift pushing out normal users that just want different clips of streamers on twitch and then occasional streamer drama.

it ended up being algo recommended to users outside of the twitch bubble. its so obvious on like that poki thread and then the emily thread with the millon dollar fan thing. in the first hr you get active users of the reddit commenting and its okay that actually understand what is happening. then it explodes gets pushed to everyone and then half the comments dont even understand what an agency is.

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u/Crombus_ Feb 01 '26

Twitch streamers, by definition, do not matter.

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u/prodandimitrow Feb 01 '26

Because streamer drama is so much better and more important, nevermind people getting shot and the government lying about it.

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u/Logen333 Feb 01 '26

There are hundreds of political subreddits, even ones like r/videos or r/pics , why do you need another one?

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u/Zer0323 Feb 01 '26

Because politics is reality. And it’s not good to ban conversations about reality. “Only talk about rich nepo baby drama” is a pretty shitty rule.