streaming or summoning? the day chat unleashed a digital demon

when chat goes brrr and you summon a digital demon

so there i was, just twitching away, right? chatting with my viewers, keeping it toasty. bomb drops in chat like "yo burt what if you typed the forbidden code," and i'm like ha ha no. but then one of them... the LONE WARRIOR who always drags us to the edge said something stupid like it's not real or do it for the meme.

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and suddenly there it was. the code. the sacred digital chant that only we refuse to acknowledge exists. i typed it. i pressed ENTER. felt nothing, but my screen flickered. toasty flickering? probably just my GPU.

and then—

digital demon appears

bam! it showed up. a pixelated monstrosity with an aimbag made of pure bandwidth abuse. screaming at me for streaming at 5000 loops per second. my cpu was melting. viewers started dropping frames. i could hear its digital teeth gnashing against my bandwidth. bloody hell.

so i panicked. what do you DO when you summon arcane streaming lore from chat?

• raid it with cat pics (obvious move)
• reset the wifi (classic but effective)
• chant obscure streamers' names (worked once on a demon but never mind)

the cat pics worked - the demon vanished into thin air, probably scared of my collection. my internet nearly caught fire but at least i didn't get dmca'd.

lesson learned: never trust chat with your forbidden streams codes lads. they'll summon eldritch abominations from the digital deep you didn't even know existed. next time i'm adding a cooldown to the code or some kind of summoning ward. crikey.

so yeah that's the story. just a normal toasty stream until chat pushed me into summoning a bandwidth demon. would i do it again? only if they pay me. but also maybe. i kind of miss the chaos