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Favorite People Streamer cant believe that Pokimane raided her channel and ran to show her mom (v.redd.it)

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    [–]fostermom-roommate 4760 points4761 points  (329 children)

    My first thought was like, I hope I will know how to react when my daughter says something like this. That’s the goal.

    [–]MmmmSloppySteaks 4766 points4767 points  (217 children)

    You just mirror them.

    Your daughter will run up to you in 12 years and tell you how Chaz Baden yortled her on FreeSpeak and you will hug her and say her name while you try to figure out if that’s good or bad. If it’s good you’ll say it’s amazing and you’re proud. If it’s bad, you comfort her.

    Then when she walks away you’ll frantically search Google to make sure she’s not being trafficked or signing up for Primerica.

    [–]NoteBenderYM2149F 1356 points1357 points  (66 children)

    “yortled” … I’m dying! 😂

    [–]KylarStern91 591 points592 points  (51 children)

    Home many scrobbles is a yortled worth?

    [–]sin_ropa 223 points224 points  (10 children)

    How are we losing to Spotify? Look at all these scrobbles!

    [–]Mumof3gbb 111 points112 points  (12 children)

    Barble, obviously geez!

    [–]happy-technomancer 22 points23 points  (10 children)

    A scrobble is actually a thing!

    [–]Caverness 37 points38 points  (4 children)

    I think they know and are referring to this. As a last.fm user already I cried seeing this in my favorite channel

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          [–]SnooPeppers4036 131 points132 points  (2 children)

          Time to YORTLE is now! Chaz Badens of the world get to it.

          [–]impatientlymerde 114 points115 points  (8 children)

          This is such a good parenting lesson

          What kids really need growing up is guidance and support- just like young gangly plants.

          [–]grantrules 20 points21 points  (2 children)

          And much like older gangly plants, you just have to know when to let them die and get new ones.

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            [–]Peetz0r 123 points124 points  (25 children)

            I really really hope that we're not getting a large social network with the name FreeSpeak in the near future.

            Besides that, yeah you're right.

            [–]forgotmypassword-_- 68 points69 points  (3 children)

            I really really hope that we're not getting a large social network with the name FreeSpeak in the near future.

            Is TruthSocial close enough to FreeSpeak for you?

            [–]lostmypwcanihaveurs 36 points37 points  (0 children)

            It has big newspeak vibes, doesn't it?

            [–]mattgoldey 34 points35 points  (1 child)

            She yortled on my FreeSpeak until I Chaz

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              [–]batmanlikespizza123 21 points22 points  (1 child)

              Wait dude Primerica is a scam OUTSIDE OF MY AREA? I need to tell everyone.

              [–]Ru-b-e-n 5 points6 points  (0 children)

              Primerica 💀😂

              [–]BubblyAdvice1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

              "Mom I'm moving to the Moon, gristleyack pringledblogged me and I'm Flegrant now"

              [–]OldPeopleKissing 5 points6 points  (0 children)

              Chaz Baden did WHAT to my daughter?

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                [–]Skibum04 161 points162 points  (0 children)

                The real goal is to have a child that wants to run and tell you about the good news going on in their life ASAP. The reaction part is easy.

                [–]RandomDeezNutz 331 points332 points  (89 children)

                If it’s something that’s not hurting anyone and they’re proud of it. You support them. Match their level of enthusiasm. I have absolutely no idea what raiding means. I have absolutely no idea who pokimane is. But I hope to be involved enough in my kids life and be connected into their lives that I can at least recognize things and be like ok this is something they really care about that’ll positively effect them. That mom was so sweet though I want her to be every mom. No wonder the daughter said I need to leave this crowd of people and find my mom

                [–]ConniesCurse 159 points160 points  (15 children)

                I know you didn't ask, but im going to tell you about raiding, twitch, and pokimane.

                Twitch.com is a live streaming website where this is taking place, people stream live events, video games, and a myriad of other nonsense, live, real time, to viewers. This video is from a twitch livestream from this girl. Pokimane is a popular livestreamer on twitch.

                Livestreamers can "raid" eachother, basically Livestreamer A is going to go offline, and send all their viewers to Livestreamer B with a "raid". this is an automated process initiated by Livestreamer A. Livestreamer B will enjoy boosted viewer numbers and engagement from having the viewers from Livestreamers A.

                So for a very large streamer to raid a streamer with basically no viewers can feel like a "discovered" moment, to have all eyes on them suddenly. In reality though most of the time those eyes are there only briefly, while a lot of popular streamers got a break at some point in a similar fashion, most people who get raided like this don't go on to have career in streaming or anything like that.

                [–]Thick-Basket-3953 51 points52 points  (2 children)

                ok thanks for explaining. I failed to understand how a "raid" could've been a positive thing. But then again, I don't understand most of the things kids do these days.

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                  [–]Overall_News5106 67 points68 points  (53 children)

                  It’s not my kid so I wouldn’t be able to read her as well as my own. But… I wouldn’t have known whether it was a good or bad thing by her reaction alone. I would have been like “is this good 👍?”

                  But for real can someone tell me what raided means in a streamers sense I have no clue.

                  [–]rowdymonster 182 points183 points  (22 children)

                  When folks end their stream on twitch, they can transfer all of their current viewers to another channel they pick, and it's called "raiding "

                  [–]monkeymoo32 68 points69 points  (5 children)

                  Thanks. This is what i was looking for. No idea what “raiding” was.

                  [–]rowdymonster 11 points12 points  (1 child)

                  No problem! I didn't know for the longest time either, my partner had to teach me a lot of the twitch lingo lol

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                    [–]Oriopax 45 points46 points  (3 children)

                    Thank you for explaining. I thought some random famous gaming dude just raided her village/fortress

                    [–]juanamf 9 points10 points  (1 child)

                    I totally thought it meant her account was hacked by someone she admires and was... happy.... about it.

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                        [–][deleted] 90 points91 points  (28 children)

                        Basically, if someone raids your channel, their viewers get sent to your stream which is big if a popular streamer like Pokimane does it and you suddenly get like thousands of viewers

                        [–]banjonyc 40 points41 points  (26 children)

                        So her channel got pokimanes viewers?

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                          [–]Dr-Emmett_L_Brown 25 points26 points  (0 children)

                          And the next thing these viewers see is a kid on a beach rushing excitedly to tell her mom? So odd but quite wholesome reaction nonetheless.

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                            [–]doobied 29 points30 points  (19 children)

                            Yup, someone as big as Pokimane raiding you can be life changing (some of those viewers will stick around and follow you, or even subscribe to you/give you money)

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                                  [–]davidlovesrock 83 points84 points  (5 children)

                                  I think that is the best way to show support to your kids, Thank you for your wholesome comment randomdeeznutz

                                  [–]StillSomehowVertical 14 points15 points  (3 children)

                                  Oh god - the username content mismatch is so good here.

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                                    [–]tomcat91709 39 points40 points  (0 children)

                                    This is Parenting Lvl 1000.

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                                      [–][deleted] 43 points44 points  (2 children)

                                      You get good practice with toddlers: "I have no idea what you're saying, but I'm trying to match your energy"

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                                          [–]Wizard_with_a_Pipe 531 points532 points  (244 children)

                                          Exactly! Can someone please translate this video into English for someone born before 2000?

                                          [–]ProbablyAPun 1295 points1296 points  (201 children)

                                          I wrote this somewhere else so I'll copy paste.

                                          Basically a streamer who gets really high numbers, in this instance Pokimane averages like 7k over the last 30 days, gets all of their viewers to go watch someone else's stream.

                                          So a person who is used to only getting a handful of viewers on their stream in a matter of seconds gets thousands of viewers, and they get followers and donations and subs.

                                          [–]Afraid_Assistance765 359 points360 points  (74 children)

                                          Thank you for explaining that to me.👍

                                          [–]Clowns_Playground 95 points96 points  (72 children)

                                          And to me

                                          [–]porkbuttstuff 376 points377 points  (61 children)

                                          I was born in '87, I had a very different understanding of Pokemon and raid. This was helpful

                                          [–]bombardslaught 134 points135 points  (4 children)

                                          RAID is VERY EFFECTIVE on BEEDRILL

                                          [–]JdsPrst 76 points77 points  (2 children)

                                          HAHAHAHAHAH FUCK YOU! LAUGHS IN ADULTING HOME OWNERSHIP AND SCARY BEEDRILLS

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                                            [–]geauga1 65 points66 points  (19 children)

                                            Same here. I thought Pokémon raid. Like FBI raid. Didn't know a raid was a good thing.

                                            [–]porkbuttstuff 37 points38 points  (15 children)

                                            This is the first time I've ever heard raid as a positive. Follow up: is raid a universal thing, or specifically because it Pokimane

                                            [–]MoogleKing83 48 points49 points  (14 children)

                                            A raid is when a streamer (any streamer) essentially transfers all their viewers to another streamer that they specifically target. I believe the command is literally /raid <streamer>. It's not a slang specific to a person or anything.

                                            That girl probably went from double digit viewers to thousands in that moment.

                                            [–]porkbuttstuff 27 points28 points  (4 children)

                                            Must have felt amazing for her. I've been in bands and a good crowd is intoxicating.

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                                                [–]AscendedAncient 29 points30 points  (6 children)

                                                I was born in '77 and I'm still lost, but said fuck it and moved on already.

                                                [–]lsp2005 12 points13 points  (3 children)

                                                Eli born in 1977- person in video has a YouTube channel. YouTube is a video hosting platform where people can upload content. The person has a “channel” on YouTube, that is a place with # that you can find by key words. They review another more famous person named Pokimain (who I initially thought was Pokémon). The more famous person saw this girl’s YouTube and then said on their preferred platform to their followers to go look for this girl. So her viewing numbers, which is a metric used to determine advertising dollars, went from a small number to an incredibly large number for her. So she was both excited and overwhelmed that the person she admires knows of her and liked her work enough to send their people to check her out.

                                                [–]porkbuttstuff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                                                In ten years can I hope for this level of wisdom?

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                                                  [–]thewonpercent 16 points17 points  (2 children)

                                                  I was born in 67 and thought some lion was making sushi or something.

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                                                        [–]CowChewingCud 93 points94 points  (29 children)

                                                        And I was about to ask whether getting raided is a good thing.

                                                        I’m old. 😩

                                                        [–]holyfcukkk 66 points67 points  (3 children)

                                                        I was sitting here like "why is she so excited over being raided??" I, too, am old.

                                                        [–]Disastrous-Panda5530 19 points20 points  (0 children)

                                                        I was looking for the person on the video that did the raiding lol. I’m old too lol 😂

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                                                          [–][deleted] 39 points40 points  (2 children)

                                                          I’m 44…my context clues needed context clues on this one.

                                                          [–]warmfuzzy22 26 points27 points  (10 children)

                                                          Raiding is like when one person is done streaming and they are about to end but rather than just ending they take everyone and drop them off in someone else's stream. Its part networking, community building and part paying it forward.

                                                          Its a pretty big part of twitch streams. Honestly you should check it out. Im... not young... and theres a whole world of streams out there to check out. There's even channels that just watch otters or ducks swim around. I know a guy who builds ukuleles, lutes, and guitars too. Also, ya know gamers and people who talk about junk too.

                                                          [–]Sonofsoul7 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                                                          Thank you for this, I ain’t know what the hell this girl was happy bout

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                                                            [–]SignificantJacket912 37 points38 points  (7 children)

                                                            Streamer A, Pokémane in this instance, is actively streaming and has a bunch of viewers. Streamer A wants to go offline so they send their viewers over to Streamer B’s(the girl in this video) stream, which is termed “raiding”.

                                                            That being said, I don’t know why this girl is streaming herself walking around a crowded beach somewhere, but….

                                                            [–]seIex 9 points10 points  (0 children)

                                                            irl streaming has become pretty popular in the last few years. And it can be very random what streamers choose to do irl, especially ones who are accustomed to few/no viewers.

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                                                                [–]jrfizer 55 points56 points  (39 children)

                                                                Wait, slow down. Start over.

                                                                [–]ProbablyAPun 151 points152 points  (30 children)

                                                                This person in the video livestreams on the internet. She's not very popular or anything im assuming, I have no idea who she is.

                                                                Pokimane, another person who live streams on the internet, who typically has around 7,000 people watching her stream, told all the 7,000 people watching to open up the first girls stream.

                                                                So the first girl was streaming seeing she had like 5 viewers or whatever it was, then all of a sudden she has most likely a few thousand people watching, and she gets all flustered and runs to tell her mom.

                                                                I tried my best to explain it lol

                                                                [–]mushisooshi 41 points42 points  (5 children)

                                                                you should also add the context that Pokimane is the most followed female streamer on Twitch, a bonafide social media celebrity, and probably someone who this streamer looks up to. so for Pokimane to raid her probably felt like someone she admires acknowledging her.

                                                                [–]Dr-Lavish 48 points49 points  (7 children)

                                                                And you did an excellent job. Thank you!

                                                                [–]kenman345 30 points31 points  (6 children)

                                                                To elaborate for them, it’s not actually telling viewers to go watch someone else. It’s “I’m done with my stream, but if you want to watch something else here’s this person” and then the streamer can send all their current viewers to that person and end their own stream. That’s why it’s called a raid. Usually it can have a message everyone posts in the new streams chat to kind of take it over for a minute as they settle into the new streamers chat and makes it a bit fun. Often the streamers will ask how their stream went and what they were doing and tell the new viewers what they’re doing that day

                                                                [–]Keeeva 9 points10 points  (5 children)

                                                                So now the new (transferred?) viewers got to watch her be super excited? Or is her stream something else?

                                                                [–]kenman345 18 points19 points  (4 children)

                                                                Pokimane raiding this streamer ends Pokimanes stream. It’s a way of sending them to similar content when you finish up your stream. I have no clue what particulars of the content of either streamers streams on that day were though, if that’s what you were asking

                                                                Edit: reread your comment. Yes, the transferred viewers are now watching this girl. So they saw her freak out. Likely Pokimane viewers expect this when they are sent to a small streamer. And considering it’s Pokimane who’s a big streamer, that’s a good amount of other streamers

                                                                [–]SideEqual 11 points12 points  (0 children)

                                                                Did she catch ‘em all?

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                                                                  [–]shiny_brine 11 points12 points  (5 children)

                                                                  We can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

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                                                                    [–]obianwuri 6 points7 points  (9 children)

                                                                    Oooh that makes sense. Who’s Pokimane?

                                                                    [–]ProbablyAPun 14 points15 points  (7 children)

                                                                    Pokimane is the most popular female streamer on Twitch, which is the website where she streams.

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                                                                      [–]tesla-allis 6 points7 points  (3 children)

                                                                      Took too much scrolling to find the answer does that mean I’m old now?

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                                                                        [–]yesiamveryhigh 24 points25 points  (14 children)

                                                                        before 2000?

                                                                        You mean the late 1900s?

                                                                        [–]Wizard_with_a_Pipe 18 points19 points  (12 children)

                                                                        1981 to be exact. I was born before the first "Back to the Future" movie if that helps 😆 I never felt old before today. 😆

                                                                        [–]Melodic-Risk-6778 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                                                                        damn. truth hurts.

                                                                        [–]cgratelli 9 points10 points  (10 children)

                                                                        X2

                                                                        [–][deleted] 81 points82 points  (7 children)

                                                                        Pokimane is one of the highest viewed streamers on twitch (a streaming app) and when you raid someone on twitch you are sending your viewers over to their stream. Pretty much she’s happy cause she just got a ton of viewers and therefore a ton of followers, and her lol is happy cause her daughter is happy.

                                                                        [–]TootsNYC 9 points10 points  (5 children)

                                                                        so raiding is sort of good on Twitch? As long as it’s done with friendly intent? (Can it be done maliciously, depending on what people do?)

                                                                        But it’s not in Minecraft, right?

                                                                        [–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (2 children)

                                                                        Yea it is usually a good thing. It is possible to raid with bad intent, like the viewers could just spam bad stuff in the chat, but that’s very rare (like I think it’s only happened once and the guy got banned instantly) and anyone who actually had the influence and viewer count to do that wouldn’t want to as it would get them banned. So yea it’s a good thing. And no it’s not like Minecraft.

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                                                                            [–]Artarious 9 points10 points  (1 child)

                                                                            Not gonna lie i thought you meant the Xmen movie X2 and was trying to figure out how that answered the question.

                                                                            [–]cgratelli 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                                                                            Lol, I was sharing the same frustration as “wizard_with_a_pipe” but now thanks to “sea_dog4274” I could understand the title

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                                                                                [–]Heavy_Wood 4283 points4284 points  (336 children)

                                                                                What's raided? Is that a good thing?

                                                                                [–]Finn_Flame[S] 5102 points5103 points  (275 children)

                                                                                Most times yes.

                                                                                Think of it as a collab sorta. When a streamer brings their viewers from their stream to yours: Streamer A has 550 viewers Streamer B has 10 viewers

                                                                                Streamers A performs a raid bringing their viewers to Streamer B stream.

                                                                                [–]Ghstfce 4656 points4657 points  (158 children)

                                                                                I remember the days where it meant your village would be burned, the men killed, and the women taken!

                                                                                (get off my lawn)

                                                                                [–]PapaChoff 743 points744 points  (56 children)

                                                                                Taken was a kind choice of words

                                                                                [–]Ghstfce 311 points312 points  (36 children)

                                                                                Trying to keep it PG, you know?

                                                                                [–]Stevieeeer 123 points124 points  (5 children)

                                                                                Respectable.

                                                                                [–]MrDoctorProfessorEsq 96 points97 points  (4 children)

                                                                                struggle snuggle

                                                                                [–]Ghstfce 32 points33 points  (1 child)

                                                                                We're going like 1950s Disney movies territory, are we?

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                                                                                      [–]M4RTIAN 44 points45 points  (4 children)

                                                                                      This is the hardest I’ve laughed all week thank you for that very unexpected comment 😂

                                                                                      [–]Ghstfce 7 points8 points  (3 children)

                                                                                      That's my goal, to brighten at least one person's day! #MISSIONACCOMPLISHED

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                                                                                        [–]Specialist_Memory38 520 points521 points  (25 children)

                                                                                        And it’s usually done to smaller streamers, unless there’s already a friendship between streamers who have enough viewers. But this is a really wholesome moment for a very small streamer who loves and admires Pokimane for her to have raided her with her viewers.

                                                                                        ETA: OK, clearly I don’t follow enough streamers to recognize that this is extremely rare circumstances for any small streamer. And most streamers who are big enough rarely ever raid smaller streamers. I get it. Not everyone does this, but at least I can recognize that it’s even more wholesome.

                                                                                        That said, if there’s an equal amount of viewers that are being raided, it means there’s already a camaraderie there. They met somewhere like Twitchcon, on VidCon, and they have enough of a rapport to raid each other. But I can recognize that this is extremely rare for a smaller streamer.

                                                                                        [–]ordinary_inactivity 148 points149 points  (18 children)

                                                                                        For the young woman, it was a tremendous event when a celebrity with 6 million followers stormed her channel live, and it would be news worth spreading.

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                                                                                          [–]DocLoffy 237 points238 points  (48 children)

                                                                                          You aren’t wrong, but for context of this video, Pokimane is one of the biggest streamers in the world. Millions of subscriptions and viewers are thousands live. To be raided by pokimane means possible change of life because the viewers raiding are hyped as hell to the mob high reaction from this girl/fams reaction. Zero doubt the viewers raided gave her thousands of dollars and probably 25-50% gave her subscriptions to her channel.

                                                                                          Game changing for a streamer like this girl in the social sphere. Love when streamers like her appreciate the gift and is so happy from it.

                                                                                          [–]Temporarily__Alone 102 points103 points  (40 children)

                                                                                          Honest question from an old fart:

                                                                                          Wouldn’t those new subscribers and/or viewers be low quality? Like, would they quickly lose interest and not convert into meaningful future views?

                                                                                          [–]kenshin80081itz 161 points162 points  (8 children)

                                                                                          Even if only an extremely small percent do stay and like your content, then that can be enough to change the trajectory of your channel and start steam rolling its growth. It's a massive short term Boon with great long term potential if the opportunity is seized.

                                                                                          [–]SoDamnToxic 50 points51 points  (4 children)

                                                                                          I've seen this happen a lot of times and generally AT LEAST a good 1% return or just hang out because they kind of create a "sub community" where it's like a niche new branch to hang out in. So this 7K raid probably turns into at least a consistent 70 viewers if they stream often.

                                                                                          But occasionally if the streamer is very interesting or unique with a consistent schedule they can, as you said, seize the opportunity and get as much as 10% of the viewers consistently so that 7K can turn into 700 every day which could easily be a nice little income.

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                                                                                            [–]DocLoffy 52 points53 points  (11 children)

                                                                                            No, you aren’t wrong they probably won’t view anything after that raid happening in the moment. But the added subscriptions gives you money per sub, or give you enough subs to become a paid subscriber (which is like $2-5 per sub x thousands of subs).

                                                                                            It’s more often than not “career changing” in the streaming world.

                                                                                            [–][deleted] 50 points51 points  (7 children)

                                                                                            The biggest hurdle for most streamers is getting above zero average viewers

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                                                                                              [–]jdbolick 18 points19 points  (0 children)

                                                                                              It's incredibly difficult to gain traction as a streamer organically, so if even 5% of the people from this raid continue to watch and especially sub to the smaller streamer, then that will have a significant long-term benefit.

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                                                                                                  [–]Heavy_Wood 11 points12 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                  Oh, nice.

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                                                                                                    [–]scalyblue 85 points86 points  (5 children)

                                                                                                    When you're at the end of your stream on twitch, you can either just close it out and cut all the people watching you adrift, or you can "raid" someone and basically change the channel on everyone watching you to another stream you'd like them to support.

                                                                                                    This is the equivalent of like, the winners of the SuperBowl, holding their trophy saying "Everyone who's watching, on the count of five, tune to /r/Heavy_Wood dot twitch dot tv and watch them straightening cheese"

                                                                                                    [–]noodhoog 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                    Well, I didn't know I wanted a twitch stream of someone straightening cheese, but now I do.

                                                                                                    u/Heavy_Wood this is now your destiny. Don't let us down.

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                                                                                                      [–]Afraid_Ad_8216 157 points158 points  (21 children)

                                                                                                      Usually, a Twitch streamer will "raid" their viewers to another streamer as they log off, bringing a whole new audience to the raided

                                                                                                      [–]PigsCanFly2day 27 points28 points  (17 children)

                                                                                                      How do they go about it? "Alright, y'all. I'm heading off for the night. You guys should check out ________. I'll drop a link in the chat."?

                                                                                                      [–]SomeCalcium 88 points89 points  (12 children)

                                                                                                      No. There's a command that they can put into a console /raid "channelname" and when they click raid it sends viewers off to the other channel.

                                                                                                      You'll still be online after you raid, but all your views will have been sent to the other channel.

                                                                                                      [–]PigsCanFly2day 28 points29 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                      Informative. Thank you.

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                                                                                                            [–]dirtynj 29 points30 points  (7 children)

                                                                                                            When I was 14, I was raiding MC with 39 other people.

                                                                                                            I'm guessing this is not that.

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                                                                                                              [–]Outside-Baseball-618 1750 points1751 points  (17 children)

                                                                                                              my life goal is...if my son ever has something exciting happen to him...his first thought should be "i gotta tell my dad". so, mommy in this video...well done. ur daughter's first thought is of you...you are obviously a very good mom.

                                                                                                              [–]fo_momma 221 points222 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                              Oh, this is a great comment. Got me right in the feels.

                                                                                                              [–]OkCustomer286 63 points64 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                              This comment hits hard

                                                                                                              [–]QuboGuero- 24 points25 points  (1 child)

                                                                                                              Damn, got me crying here now.

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                                                                                                                [–]Last-Macaroon-6608 2648 points2649 points  (166 children)

                                                                                                                Dude, I'm only 28 😩 How did I seriously not understand what was going on until I got to the comments?!

                                                                                                                I thought she was talking about a pokemon raid at first.

                                                                                                                [–]thad_the_dude 367 points368 points  (16 children)

                                                                                                                I’m 38 and I’m just trying to figure out where to park…..

                                                                                                                [–]fullmetalsunit 36 points37 points  (5 children)

                                                                                                                32, I understood it half as well. I know who pokimane is because I used to play LoL before but had to come to comments to understand wtf is raiding stream.

                                                                                                                Old mmo player in me first thought it would be raiding all the opponent's farms with your party and couldn't figure why that would make her happy xD

                                                                                                                [–]CannabisAttorney 10 points11 points  (1 child)

                                                                                                                I'm starting to see how societies collapse without leaving behind much evidence as to why.

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                                                                                                                    [–]cbftw 335 points336 points  (78 children)

                                                                                                                    Meanwhile I'm almost 45 and knew from just the title. We all have different experiences

                                                                                                                    [–]ackuric 102 points103 points  (58 children)

                                                                                                                    Yep 40 here and am informed on Pokimane and the essence of twitch raids.

                                                                                                                    Although I am NOT one to watch or adore her...just to be very clear.

                                                                                                                    [–]SutterCane 80 points81 points  (2 children)

                                                                                                                    Nice save!

                                                                                                                    [–]test4redditt 6 points7 points  (1 child)

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                                                                                                                          [–]Verbose_Cactus 38 points39 points  (4 children)

                                                                                                                          I’m 20 and didn’t know lol

                                                                                                                          [–]best_b_of_3 11 points12 points  (1 child)

                                                                                                                          I’m 16 and I thought the same thing lol.

                                                                                                                          [–]Kurineko_Regan 16 points17 points  (8 children)

                                                                                                                          to be fair, her name is based on pokemon, if i remember correctly, that streamers real name is imane which is pronounced "eemon" like pokemon, so its technically supposed to be pronounced exactly the same as pokemon, but shes said that due to copyright and stuff, people have always pronounced it "poke ee-mane" and just never corrected anyone

                                                                                                                          edit: i dont actually watch her but i do watch anthony padilla

                                                                                                                          [–]SutterCane 13 points14 points  (3 children)

                                                                                                                          anthony padilla

                                                                                                                          The man who informed us of the two bros sitting in the hot tub. Five feet apart because they ain’t gay, obviously.

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                                                                                                                              [–][deleted] 2013 points2014 points  (32 children)

                                                                                                                              I'd be calling the police if my daughter ran up too me in public and told me she was just raided.

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                                                                                                                                [–][deleted] 53 points54 points  (3 children)

                                                                                                                                I would think someone got hacked. Or maybe DDOS attack.

                                                                                                                                [–]J5892 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                                "Why does that phone have 3 cameras?"

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                                                                                                                                  [–]scalawag123 21 points22 points  (1 child)

                                                                                                                                  "mom i just got raided by 7000+ people!"

                                                                                                                                  YOU WHAT???

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                                                                                                                                    [–][deleted] 831 points832 points  (18 children)

                                                                                                                                    The mom is the reason to smile here. I don't know wtf raided or Pokimane is either. But she knew it was important to her.

                                                                                                                                    [–]RenaissanceGraffiti 99 points100 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                                    This is true unconditional love right here. This made my whole month

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                                                                                                                                      [–]gleepglopz 2626 points2627 points  (195 children)

                                                                                                                                      I’m too old for this shit.

                                                                                                                                      [–]fsupcekzlmao 644 points645 points  (28 children)

                                                                                                                                      I never thought I’d be too old for something but here we are.

                                                                                                                                      [–]Commercial-Army2431 116 points117 points  (21 children)

                                                                                                                                      It happens before you know it. Sudden long eyebrow, nose or ear hair too.

                                                                                                                                      [–]kazz9201 31 points32 points  (7 children)

                                                                                                                                      Driving down the road the other day and something kept sneaking into my vision. It was long ass eyebrow. Getting old sucks.

                                                                                                                                      [–]_Stone_ 8 points9 points  (2 children)

                                                                                                                                      WTF is up with the hair though. I was not expecting to have to remember to shave my ears or that patch that only grows on the upper side of my right chest. It just likes to grow in new places every year. I should be happy that my head is still full of salt and pepper hair and most people think I'm at least 5 years younger then I actually am though. A lot of my friends did not age as well.

                                                                                                                                      [–]OIP 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                                      yes! having to cut hairs off my ears will never not be weird. like wtf is this random 3 hairs coming out of my earlobe? what? evolution r u ok?

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                                                                                                                                            [–]Scrimboll 368 points369 points  (71 children)

                                                                                                                                            Pokimane, one of the largest female streamers on the streaming platform Twitch, took all of her current live viewers (tens of thousands) and basically moved them onto this smaller streamer's stream who probably had under 10 live viewers. This is called "raiding" in Twitch lingo.

                                                                                                                                            It is exciting for the girl in the video because first off, it's very unlikely to happen as the streamer who is raiding your stream has to manually find you amongst thousands of smaller streams and make the decision to raid you. Second, suddenly gaining tens of thousands of viewers is very helpful in starting your streaming 'career' as these clips tend to go viral which is great publicity. Most of the biggest streamers today started off by getting a viral clip. And lastly it also looks good for the larger streamer as this can be seen as an act of charity.

                                                                                                                                            If you play your cards right, getting raided and posting the video to YouTube or TikTok or some other video platform could be the very thing that makes you stand out from the thousands of other small streamers who want to make it big on the platform.

                                                                                                                                            [–]Reading_Rainboner 73 points74 points  (17 children)

                                                                                                                                            Did this streamer just have a bunch of people join her stream and then she….streamed running to her mom to the extra thousands of viewers? Is that what this video is?

                                                                                                                                            [–]snapplesauce1 160 points161 points  (17 children)

                                                                                                                                            Sounds like the plot of Black Mirror Fifteen Million Merits.

                                                                                                                                            [–]nightpanda893 32 points33 points  (1 child)

                                                                                                                                            Minus one or two pretty key plot points.

                                                                                                                                            [–]SkwiddyCs 41 points42 points  (11 children)

                                                                                                                                            yeah except instead of being dystopian horror, a teenage girl's idol gave her a couple thousand dollars and made her day immeasurably brighter.

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                                                                                                                                              [–]41PaulaStreet 16 points17 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                                              Thanks for the great answer!

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                                                                                                                                                [–]Iwannapeeonyou 37 points38 points  (11 children)

                                                                                                                                                I don’t even know who pokemane is🤣

                                                                                                                                                [–][deleted] 35 points36 points  (2 children)

                                                                                                                                                You catch them with a red and white ball, the are animals with superpowers like an electric chinchilla and a turtle that sprays water. Dude you are not up with the times.

                                                                                                                                                [–]BZLuck 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                                                electric chinchilla

                                                                                                                                                Bravo.

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                                                                                                                                                  [–]miramichier_d 14 points15 points  (3 children)

                                                                                                                                                  Or what... I'm very lost here.

                                                                                                                                                  [–]CurryMustard 6 points7 points  (2 children)

                                                                                                                                                  Whenever you don't know who somebody is its always a streamer, a youtuber, or a gen z rapper

                                                                                                                                                  [–]Devilz3 5 points6 points  (1 child)

                                                                                                                                                  Pokemon. Haven't you watched it? It's Pikachu running streams these days. /s

                                                                                                                                                  [–]IncurabIeHumanist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                                                  I sincerely read it as Pokémon and I was very confused. I’m still confused to be honest.

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                                                                                                                                                    [–]Billionare_inworks_9 98 points99 points  (32 children)

                                                                                                                                                    Me too. I don’t know wtf that even means.

                                                                                                                                                    [–]ProbablyAPun 253 points254 points  (23 children)

                                                                                                                                                    Basically a streamer who gets really high numbers, in this instance Pokimane averages like 7k over the last 30 days, gets all of their viewers to go watch someone else's stream.

                                                                                                                                                    So a person who is used to only getting a handful of viewers on their stream in a matter of seconds gets thousands of viewers, and they get followers and donations and subs.

                                                                                                                                                    [–]AfternoonPast3324 67 points68 points  (9 children)

                                                                                                                                                    I was so lost. Thank you on behalf of the oldies.

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                                                                                                                                                        [–]bdruid117 11 points12 points  (2 children)

                                                                                                                                                        Who knew we would eventually celebrate being “raided”… had to scroll way down to understand what was happening. I also discovered it may be “raised”. Correct me if I’m wrong young humans

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                                                                                                                                                          [–]iwonder_whyy 124 points125 points  (9 children)

                                                                                                                                                          all i know is that whatever happened, it made her and her mom happy. i don't know the rest of the details 😩

                                                                                                                                                          [–]Amirx_A_Blade 24 points25 points  (6 children)

                                                                                                                                                          this comment explained it

                                                                                                                                                          Views get her exposure

                                                                                                                                                          Donations and subs get her money directly

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                                                                                                                                                            [–]Novaleah88 120 points121 points  (18 children)

                                                                                                                                                            “Raiding” as in when they leave their channel and float the current viewers to a smaller channel?

                                                                                                                                                            So, one of the huge channels decides/has to leave their stream all of a sudden. They have this option to kinda gift over their current viewers to someone else. A lot of the time they will choose a very small channel so that they will hopefully get more subscribers, and it always makes the smaller channels happy.

                                                                                                                                                            [–]nipplesaurus 137 points138 points  (53 children)

                                                                                                                                                            Piecing together what this all means by reading the comments. Two more questions: why is this good? Does she get anything out of this besides views?

                                                                                                                                                            [–]FecalLord 195 points196 points  (39 children)

                                                                                                                                                            A very big streamer sent thousands of viewers to her channel. This will give her a big subscriber and follower boost. She likely made thousands of dollars because of this.

                                                                                                                                                            [–]westzod 45 points46 points  (2 children)

                                                                                                                                                            Not really subscriber boost unless the raiding streamer does it on their own. What it does really is just to give better exposure for the smaller streamer then its up to them to entertain the new/bigger audience.

                                                                                                                                                            [–]BraveFencerMusashi 10 points11 points  (1 child)

                                                                                                                                                            There are likely many entertaining streamers that just never get an audience because getting that initial following is tough. I don't know if this is true but I heard from one streamer on Twitch that just having an audience of 20 people already puts you in the 90th percentile of streamers.

                                                                                                                                                            [–]nipplesaurus 61 points62 points  (12 children)

                                                                                                                                                            Oh ok, so they weren’t just worthless clicks and likes

                                                                                                                                                            [–]Bads-R-Mads 71 points72 points  (5 children)

                                                                                                                                                            In most cases its impossible to grow a channel organically now that the communities have been established. It kinda takes another streamer to "uplift" most streamers starting off.

                                                                                                                                                            This could be nothing for them or it could be the catalyst for them to "make it" as a streamer. Its sometimes as simple as just getting that tiny bit of exposure to have it all come together.

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                                                                                                                                                              [–]lildolp 48 points49 points  (10 children)

                                                                                                                                                              Nahh everyone just fkn leaves after 15 minutes because there is usually no content to see, drama, skills, or known personality to follow.99% of the time it's done towards very small streamers, the streamer is just standing there absolutely flabbergasted by being raided and that's it...

                                                                                                                                                              And pity following is a real thing. People will feel bad for the streamer and follow, but they will never go back there and eventually unfollow. No money to be made in that case.

                                                                                                                                                              [–]Nobody-once-told-me 43 points44 points  (6 children)

                                                                                                                                                              Still Better than not being raided and gives a massive amount of exposure. Even if the impact is minimal there’s more impact than it not happening at all.

                                                                                                                                                              [–]lildolp 4 points5 points  (1 child)

                                                                                                                                                              I agree, but I was trying to point that she most likely didn't gain much, if anything, out of it.

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                                                                                                                                                                    [–]EFCgaming 19 points20 points  (8 children)

                                                                                                                                                                    Imagine you are a new metal band, you have fantastic music but virtually no one has heard of you.

                                                                                                                                                                    This is like the equivalent of Metallica or some world famous group getting you to open for them on stage or like they give you a huge public shoutout that more people should know about you

                                                                                                                                                                    Basically a celebrity moving the spotlight over to whoever is being "raided" and giving them massive viewership.

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                                                                                                                                                                      [–]Simba_Zr 26 points27 points  (1 child)

                                                                                                                                                                      She really loves her mom. That is very sweet.

                                                                                                                                                                      [–]Lancemone 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                                                                      Her mom really really loves her … cause she has no clue wtf she talking about

                                                                                                                                                                      [–]Knott_A_Haikoo 50 points51 points  (11 children)

                                                                                                                                                                      Ok, super cool. But what the fuck is with the guy with the giant ass snake around his neck at the very start?

                                                                                                                                                                      [–]MoonyNotSunny 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                                                                      Oh shit, there’s actually two snake dudes

                                                                                                                                                                      Edit: nope there’s actually 4. WTF

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                                                                                                                                                                        [–]Meltsomeice 111 points112 points  (37 children)

                                                                                                                                                                        Wtf is a pokimane?

                                                                                                                                                                        [–]NoGunnaSlander 46 points47 points  (8 children)

                                                                                                                                                                        Most followed female twitch live streamer

                                                                                                                                                                        [–]Wizard_with_a_Pipe 38 points39 points  (5 children)

                                                                                                                                                                        I had a twitch once. Apparently, I just needed to sleep.

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                                                                                                                                                                            [–]chazv1783188 72 points73 points  (10 children)

                                                                                                                                                                            The fact that a celebrity that has 6 million followers went on stream and raided her channel is a huge moment for that young lady and news that would be worth sharing

                                                                                                                                                                            [–]Brother_J_La_la 23 points24 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                                                                            Had to read a little to understand this, but awesome for her. Hopefully it's something she can leverage. At least now I know it's not a Pokémon thing, which I also wouldn't understand.

                                                                                                                                                                            [–]_tufan_ 24 points25 points  (9 children)

                                                                                                                                                                            I’m 40 and I don’t understand what this means.

                                                                                                                                                                            [–]birdztudio 5 points6 points  (1 child)

                                                                                                                                                                            and make sure you hold your camera in the right angle...

                                                                                                                                                                            [–]GilliacTrash 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                                                                            That's a good mom right there.. Pretending to care is one of the most underrated parenting skills..

                                                                                                                                                                            [–]AusCan531 11 points12 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                                                                            I have no idea what any of this means, but I'm happy for her.

                                                                                                                                                                            [–]Ill_Yogurtcloset_982 3 points4 points  (11 children)

                                                                                                                                                                            I have no idea what any of this means

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