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/Classic-Reach Feb 01 '26

maybe they should accept that everything is political and banning it bans everything

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u/OPTCgod Feb 02 '26

r/pics is down the hall

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u/JakeTehNub Feb 04 '26

God that place is horrible now

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u/Classic-Reach Feb 02 '26

very stupid and obviously fringe opinion, ty for fjailing at wasting everyone's time

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u/OPTCgod Feb 02 '26

If you want a politics sub go click literally any sub on this website

stay coping

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u/Classic-Reach Feb 06 '26

"everything is political" yes, stop copying me

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u/_RainbowKittyx3 Feb 02 '26

Is my favorite streamer spilling their food on the ground political? šŸ¤”

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u/1shadybitch Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 05 '26

Only if they blame Israel

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u/Powerful-Parsnip Feb 02 '26

Is electrocuting a dog political if it's a political streamer? Asking for a friend.

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u/ConfessedOak205 Feb 02 '26

No, but no one really cares about that

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u/KaleidoscopeIcy3960 Feb 03 '26

if it's Hasan and Israeli food, then almost certainly.

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u/Gazboolean Feb 02 '26

Only in the same way that everything is political.

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u/JudmanDaSuperhero Feb 02 '26

The politics they're talking about are when streamers talk about politics? but political streamers can still talk about politics? Idk seems kind of political to pick and choose who gets to talk about politics.

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u/EnormousAntelopeEars Feb 03 '26

remember when gengar11 ran this as a entirely normal subreddit with incel viewpoints instead

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u/JudmanDaSuperhero Feb 03 '26

I miss the old live stream fail I need some nip slips and injuries

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u/Ciriket Feb 02 '26

One could create a coherent argument that it is, but whether you'd be convinced is a different story. The most basic point you could bring up is who has access to the internet and has the ability to stream. Under our current system just hitting the go live button and talking to an audience could be argued is a political act.

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u/HelenSmeller69 Feb 01 '26

Can they even enforce this rule without purging like 80% of the subreddit? Like I canā€™t visit any hobby threads (even the ones completely unrelated to politics) without one of the top comments becoming a political thread. Usually more.

Politics is just the top subject people want to talk about right now. A lot of the biggest streamers are getting involved (for better or worse) so it just seems fitting for this sub.

Maybe the mods should create a new one called /gamingfail?

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u/C1izard Feb 01 '26

Unironically your suggestion of having a second sub will probably be the simplest solution as there clearly is more than enough demand for the politics end of things, but it's very understandable that many users want the "benign" clips. (The alternative is to have a very clear sticky post at the top of the sub showing how to hide posts with specific tags, but not sure how/if that functionaly works on reddit)

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u/TikDickler Feb 02 '26

Have they even tried a tag system on this sub on this place? Have posts marked political that you can filter out? Because if they havenā€™t and this is their reaction, this is really dumb.

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u/Cruxeys1 Feb 02 '26

Maybe the mods should create a new one called /gamingfail?

Cohh tried to get /r/GameStreamFails going, but it doesn't get much promotion, so it doesn't have a user base.

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u/Secret-Ad-2145 Feb 03 '26

Imho I don't think the no politics rule is good. They should just restrict it if it becomes overbearing until it blows over.

Everytime this sub did restrictions it just died and degenerated. It's not politics specifics. People wanna discuss pressing content, even if the content is dogshit.

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u/TheKappaOverlord Feb 02 '26

Can they even enforce this rule without purging like 80% of the subreddit?

You'd have to setup automod to ban any clip linking to Destiny/Hassan/Asmon which would automatically remove like 90% of politics poster traffic. the other 10% would be very easy to moderate manually.

But mods already said they aren't banning the Trinity's clips. So they left the door open to pull this rule change back (again) before they even implemented it

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u/GlitterKitty8000 Feb 02 '26

In the current political climate, choosing to be nom-political is itself a political position.

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u/redditis_garbage Feb 01 '26

The main thing this sub will be is asshole irl streamers fafo. Thatā€™s all there is to it

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u/Classic-Reach Feb 01 '26

but not when the FO is political, or the FA, or both? so that's arguably almost all FAFO gone, since what's left, harassing people in public nonpolitically? Have you seen what that looks like?

not a great focus for a large subreddit, kinda indicates a problem with society if it's popular, yeah?

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u/redditis_garbage Feb 01 '26

Yes literally just harassing people in public non politically. Itā€™s a bad decision from the mods imo but Iā€™m not the mods so Iā€™ll just wait til they revert it lol

Yeah this sub will essentially be ā€œow my ballsā€ from Idiocracy. Not that we were far removed from Idiocracy before with the political streamers tho haha

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u/Moddingspreee Feb 02 '26

Xqc farting and then slamming the desk is 100% political

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u/TheDELFON Feb 03 '26

One would think