SHNEAKO - January 31, 2026Kick CEO Ed Craven EXPOSES biggest VIEWBOTTERS in streaming!
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In this episode, I catch up with one of the most popular streamers on the entire game. We talk about how he started streaming, how he got into the game, and what he's been up to the past few months.
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We talked about bots before, I think just a big shout out to Sneeko. I think Sneeko is one of the
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few people out there that doesn't touch any bots at all. I said this to you the other day, right,
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Sneeko? I was like, you know, one, like, there is actually very few people. I was saying like,
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hey, look, yo, guys, fuck with the people that don't use bots. I'll say this now. I won't ever
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say someone is using Vuebots, but I will say when someone isn't using Vuebots, like, Sneeko is not,
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you know, he's legit. Like, you haven't fallen to the temptation of, you know, increasing your
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Wait, what? You got dropped from the kit clipping program?
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bleached it on my on my kick stream yesterday she wanted to to bleach it gee yeah that actually
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looks pretty good man thanks I actually I have some more you think so thank you did you ask for
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the neon were you like hey man I need the neon no no no I uh I actually I asked for the marlin and
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then they said it was cringe so but no I used to do this back in the day back in the day I used to
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always dye my hair blonde i have some more the brass toner because a little too little too asian
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slim shady i'll fix it up a little too brash it looks good man you like it eddie i do i i actually
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i think it actually really works yeah it's uh it works it works definitely yeah come from kept
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calling me old so i had to shave my beard and you know i'm trying to look younger i'm on gauge
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i'm catching up to you guys so you gotta do what i call you 27 it's good to talk to you guys last
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time i think we spoke i was 26 or 25 or something that was the it was the end of 2024 i was doing
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my twitter vlogs yeah you had project x that just came out right that was pretty heavy what
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happened to that well i got unbanned on youtube in october last year so project x the goal was
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to get you know make something so dope that i got in band and it kind of worked so mission
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accomplished and you know now i started uh started streaming on kick you know this this month was
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kind of the reason I know you're in a rush, the reason I wanted to talk is like, this is the most
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amount of hours I've ever streamed in a month. And I think the system you have going on with
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kick right now works really well because I have a, I have a big clipping team and, you know,
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it gets super expensive and I really like seeing that grow. And, you know, the KPP, even I was
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kind of apprehensive because Clavicula, he keeps telling me to gamble. Everyone's telling me to
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gamble but i have been you know i've been doing well on on kick regardless so yeah i think i did
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something like 250 hours this month so it was by far my most stream month ever in four years
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okay you've always you've always been a little bit you never wanted to go full-time streaming
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right you kind of obviously more video on demand bod sort of base right youtube whatnot it was
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kind of your primary yeah yeah that's that's my main thing but just shifting over there's been
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like two major reasons is because you know i've been jumping around i've been kicked out of 109
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platforms i was on party for a year and then you know i was on rumble for two years i got banned
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i've been i've been on every single streaming website so now that i'm on kick it's like you
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gotta make sure people know what's up and i think what helps is that you know the kick clipping
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program lets people know exactly where you are it's a pretty big watermark i'm not gonna lie
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but it does definitely let people know it's a little bit obnoxious i remember it used to be
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this like really faded like kick logo and i kind of sat down with with with the team i'm like guys
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we need to we need to make this a little bit bigger and i think they went a little bit too
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big but uh and i ain't complaining you know it's uh you can't you can't miss it you can't miss it
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yeah hey you know it's been on so many platforms man like what are you what's your honest
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assessment of kick like now that you've given it a good go you've you put in a lot of hours
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you're obviously ingraining yourself in the community like like what are your thoughts man
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i like it it's so different because you guys know i i stream sometimes on youtube as well i do the
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cross stream and cut it over the youtube chat is so wholesome they're like really nice people
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they're like oh this is great like if you don't tip somebody or and then you tip them 20 afterwards
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they make sure to let you know and then they're super happy kick is like like like if they want
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you to fall off a bridge like i'm not trying to like they they have like a dark sense of humor
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you know like if something bad happens like if you get in a car accident or like the car shut
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they'll start laughing you know like somebody doxes you or like if you get swatted kit kit
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chat will start moving really fast youtube chat will be like oh no should we call the police are
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you okay kick chats like get in a fight you're like which i like it but it's really cool how
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different the worlds are i like it you know it is my sense of humor i i can relate to that that's
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the type of streams i watch i mean for years you guys have known i've always been watching kick
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street i can't really enjoy other content you know this atmosphere this community is for me
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oh listen i guess yeah we've cultivated our own community over here our culture it's it's it's
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i'll i'll be the first to admit as well even like like sneaker you'd be hanging out in my chat you
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see some crazy people in there well not crazy people but some some loud and and and and unique
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sort of yeah characters i think that's just that's the kick that's the kick community it's it's just
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um i think people i think people just enjoy seeing crazy crazy crazy stuff go down right i think the
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internet is full of like a whole bunch of of of of you know stuff that's kind of rinse and repeat and
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and nowadays like the world is changing a little bit i think you know especially like if you kind
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of look at content creation like five years ago it was heavily based around this this idea of like
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Like, you know, you have to be really wholesome and PG-13 plus or whatever the fuck it was.
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Like, we've got to be careful with, like, drawing lines.
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They want to see, like, you used the example of, like, falling off a bridge or something.
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I don't think people actually want to see them fall off a bridge.
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Like, I think we've been on the internet that people have been making videos and streams now for years and years and years.
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like they want to see exciting stuff and and you know i think that's what kicks for people come to
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kick because they're they they want excitement they want to see something different um so
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it's the content i watch it's my that's why i think it's worked so easily it's only been one
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month you know one month that i started on a kick and i think i've grown something like 20k followers
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this month my my average view count i was started this month like january alone i was averaging like
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1 000 viewers and i think i'm not sure what it is now but i think it's 5k and that's pretty
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pretty quickly because you know i understand the kid community the kid culture it's my sense of
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humor i know and also it's just it's just a fun website to stream on and that's like a really
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refreshing takeaway i have at the last day of the month is just how like i want to go live all the
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time you ask me if i sleep i only slept like one hour last night and i was just thinking about you
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know today i'm going to do a gym stream with low pump we're going to go he's going to learn how to
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box a little bit, then we're going to go to the studio. That's something like if I'm streaming
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on YouTube or Twitch or a different Rumble, for example, Rumble chat is not going to love me and
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Lil Pump in the studio. They're going to say like, oh, he paints his nails. This is gay. I hate rap
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kick. There's like, there's more of a diversity of everything. Like I can talk and do my desktop
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and then it's more transferable. And then, you know, they want me to go IRL. It's just a more
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versatile, fun platform. That's epic. Oh, I'll tell you what, coming from someone who's banned
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from 109 platforms or or been through 109 if if if you're telling me that kick's in a great spot
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and and and you know you're you know on the back of screaming 250 hours in in january then
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then i'll tell you what that's that's that's a pretty good signal that we're doing something
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right and i guess you know the clipping combined with the the growth combined with the the freedom
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to to be able to be yourself and do whatever you want and enjoy it and have a community back to
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on that it sounds like it's a perfect recipe for i don't know hopefully seeing where you can take
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things and sneaker just before i i finish stream and and um say goodbye um i just want to we're
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talking about bots before i think just a big shout out to sneak i think sneaker is one of the few
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people out there doesn't doesn't touch any bots at all i said this the other day right sneak i was
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like you know one like there is actually very few people i was saying like hey look yo guys
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fuck with the people that don't use bots um you know i'll say this now i won't ever say someone
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is using view bots but i will say when someone isn't using view bots like sneaker is not um
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you know he's he's he's legit like you you haven't fallen to the temptation of
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you know increasing your metrics and i respect that man i really do thanks a lot wait so i'm
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so surprised i'm happy you said that because i get accused of that all the time you know i know
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you got to go but so you know you you are aware of everybody who is and isn't botting i did want
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to talk about that maybe we could speak on this more in the future um no obviously yeah kick kick
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kick like has the ability like that's how kpp works right kpp pays out on legitimate viewership
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right obviously the platform kind of knows but again we don't know who's botting q right like
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at the end of the day like you know somebody else could be botting someone else like there is a lot
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of that going on right but um you know it's a tough one but yeah we definitely know when people
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aren't botting that's for sure i appreciate you saying that yeah i know you got to go soon just
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wanted to stop in and show some love it's been great coming on here santa maria uh thanks for
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helping me get on boarded on the website eddie it's always great to talk to you awesome man
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you have an awesome weekend good luck today yeah hey uh good seeing you that's that's good good
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seeing him man good you brought that up because look you know you can't fake his content you get
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what i'm saying right like he he knows how to edit he knows how to go out and get a story he
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knows how to get clipped he knows how to collab like um you know it just makes sense that he has
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an authentic uh community because he's actually he's just put in the work and the work shows uh
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no matter if you like his content or not this his technical abilities um are off the chart right
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like he he i think this guy could make a netflix like documentary as fast as he could like just
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make like um you know a rogue clip falling off a bridge does that make sense like uh i i think he's
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i think he's very diverse diverse in that i think i think sneaker is just a very well-spoken person
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he's very well articulated um obviously very quick at at coming up with what to do and say and i
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think that that you know shows in his streaming i think yeah he finds himself in in subjects which
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become quite polarizing and and naturally people who aren't afraid to speak their mind will end up
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pissing off a lot of people. Um, but I guess on the back of that, you, you end up making a few
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fans too, but that's also, I guess, you know, what, what content creation is all about. I feel
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like, I feel like just, just ending on that note. Like I think, I think for a long time, streaming
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was about pleasing everybody. Like people took this take that you have to like make everyone
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happy. You have to appeal to everyone, but you know, I feel like when you try appealing to
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everyone you almost appeal to nobody um you know you end up in a world where if you if you know
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that saying if you try to please everyone you you you're gonna sort of fail you know i think if if
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you're not somewhat polarizing you you're probably doing something a little bit wrong like i know for
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a fact i do my best to be like super diplomatic during my streams um like i try my best not to
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say anything that'll get me in trouble or whatnot but but naturally you know i i feel like i feel
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like every now and again you you you unless you want to be somebody you're not you're going to
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say something that not everyone's going to agree with um you know for example heck even just having
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sneaker on the stream just then like fuck some people would say oh andy like you as a business
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you can't have somebody like that guy come on because he got banned from youtube like you know
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I think sometimes you just got to go with the flow and do stuff that is exciting.
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And I think it comes back to that creative freedom component.
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And you need to be a little bit polarizing sometimes.
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Yeah, no, I think a funny quote or statement that I saw someone say the other day is like,
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how did the generation of people who were raised on South Park get so soft you get what I'm saying
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like like I remember coming up on South Park and you know before South Park you know the Simpsons
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yeah you know and everything everything was up for grabs man so um listen man I know it's weird
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because like I know like like I guess I I grew up on on online games like Call of Duty or or like
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in my case an escape and everyone fucking everyone's bonkers right it was good times and
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i don't know it was somewhere in like 2015 onwards that yeah the world kind of suddenly
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spent like 10 years being really soft i reckon but i don't know i feel like it's sort of changing
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maybe i don't know who knows who knows maybe i'm completely off the mark and maybe we have to kind
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of go back to being like super restrictive in what we say and walking on eggshells um but but
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you know i think it's it's it's fun i'm enjoying live streaming i think live streaming is in a
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really healthy spot these last two months of live streaming i think has been really fun
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like i've been watching some really great streamers on twitch i've been watching some
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really great streamers on youtube i've been watching a lot of really great streamers on kick
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um i think streaming's in a really good place and i think that's in the back of of the fact
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that people are speaking their mind they're having fun they're being themselves