>In a heated video yesterday, professional streamer and YouTuber Desmond Etika Amofah issued a warning against against viewers who “fuck with me, fuck with my money, or fuck with my life.” Amofah, a big personality in the Nintendo community, displayed five recent donations to his Twitch stream, each in quantities of $50 or $100. Then, he showed five corresponding disputes against those charges in his Paypal account. The viewer had demanded back the money they donated, and in the process, slammed Amofah with a hundred bucks in processing fees. >“For content creators like myself and many others who suffer from a problem like this, it also fucks up our lives since everything I do is through PayPal,” Amofah said. >“Chargebacks,” as they’re called, are requests for credit card companies to refund money given to someone through an apparently fraudulent transaction. Over the last few years, streamers, whose livings are often built on PayPal transactions, have become increasingly frustrated as trolls or viewers weaponize chargebacks against them. >Kaceytron, another big streamer, gets about a half dozen chargebacks each month, often after small donations. In 2013, when she started streaming, she sometimes received donations up to $1,000 that were subsequently charged back. Over the phone, Kaceytron recalled how after a series of sketchy transactions, her PayPal account was frozen. “That was two to three weeks I didn’t get donations at all,” Kaceytron said. “That sucked and affected me pretty bad.”
Since we're already making an off-topic thread, might as well post your best doggies
Matthew Hall
I can just imagine the fat salty neckbeard that charged back based Kaceytron
Henry Torres
smug dog
Tyler Kelly
Why the hell do you shiteating faggots make these threads twice? Every fucking time it's once when the original shit happens and umpteen times when a "journalist" article about the original thing comes out. Give me a real fucking answer instead of your two second thoughtless garbage.
Tyler Wood
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Jayden Gonzalez
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Daniel Morris
>content creators I really hope people keep doing this.
Zachary Turner
i had no idea. really makes you feel for the content creators
Hunter Bennett
Go complain to PayPal or use another service.
William Davis
I don't like raids but this doesn't give them hits so I like it. Give them fake money and take it away.
Nolan Flores
make me fag
Lincoln Taylor
A good streamer wouldn't need money donations. Take your cancer back to the containment board you came from.
Ayden Hughes
get a proper fucking job and contribute to society dumb shitter
Jace Perez
>knowing who these people are
Wyatt Parker
Im OK with this, let these fuckers get a real job like normal people do.
Jeremiah Hill
>Stop fucking with the good vidya streamers. >the good vidya streamers >good >streamers
Luke Jones
>user A browses Kotaku hourly to shitpost on Sup Forums >posts the article shortly after it's published >user B is busy sucking dicks >doesn't see the article until the next day >he then posts >user C (that's you) is a retarded faggot that doesn't understand there's literally millions browsing Sup Forums each month so duplicate posts are bound to happen
Now kill yourself
Austin Morales
Why not donate a huge amount if you're going to do that?
Levi Gonzalez
Because most of them are poor pajeets living in their mothers basement and want to do the most they can with their $1.38
Nathan Murphy
Pretty funny but the real cunts here are credit card companies who charged you ludicrous amounts for doing jack shit
Austin Gutierrez
>haha, I don't keep up with pop culture because I'm a rebel xD
Kill yourself
Gavin Russell
paypal is sketchy as shit. Maybe its time to use something else.
Doesnt google have something similar?
Owen Price
They want the AWWWWW THANKS HONEY OWO :3CCCC from the streamer without losing neetbux
Jace Torres
>another service.
David Campbell
>Amofah, a big personality in the Nintendo community The fuck who?
Isaiah Scott
soon PayPal is going to get rid of chargebacks because of these people...thanks a lot assholes
Carson Flores
But won't they get it back?
Robert Cruz
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Cameron Gutierrez
It's your money to lose
Henry Sanchez
>Cykatron wow that bitch is still around?
Elijah Long
nah this has been happening for all kinds of shit for over a decade lol
Jackson Adams
Arguably this is only an issue because these streamers make this shit appealing to people who want affection so badly they are willing to donate just for someone to say they "lub them very much and are the top donator this month!"
I bet you that streamers that don't suck the dick of everyone who's ever donated to them don't face this problem and have a regular stream of income
Adam Russell
More commonly known as etika, or that black guy that loves nintendo
Aaron Carter
Using a service owned by a drumpf supporter. They deserve it.
Samuel Nguyen
I hope you try to charge back a massive donation and get denied :)
Isaac Thompson
Good. Fuck them and their "content creator" bullshit. These derivative, piece of shit schlock producers are nothing but pawns in a scheme to allow art and expression to become entirely coopted by marketing.
Fuck him.
Charles Walker
Can someone explain Sup Forums's war with streamers? Is it solely because of the annoying kids who latch on to them or some deep seeded anger over someone making money playing games?
Hudson Gomez
These people still turn a massive profit essentially begging and whoring themselves online. Kaceytron isn't going to land on the street because of a few hundred bucks worth of chargebacks when she makes that much in a couple of hours.
You're essentially given a free ride through life and you bitch and moan about a relatively minor inconvenience.
Parker Baker
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Tyler Torres
why would you pay for the privilege to watch someone else play a video game that's just asinine
Ethan Ramirez
the latter
Dominic Lewis
How DARE you make money playing videogames. DJs are okay though
Samuel Taylor
Why are YouTube creators so bad.
Can't they just thank nig?
Jackson Ramirez
then don't pay them, but there's no reason to fuck them over, just ignore them if you don't like then Jesus christ
Gavin Long
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Adrian Peterson
I've just googled this "Kaceytron" person. I expected to normal dude, but this is a new low for Sup Forums.
So i will just go on and think this is a bait thread, it has to be.
Julian Jenkins
A lot of people here work hard 9-5 jobs or shitty pay jobs and loathe people who make money doing fun things or irregular hours. I'm jealous too but don't let it turn to hate, more to motivation
Easton Hall
puppos
Liam Rogers
>professional streamer and YouTuber
Logan Jackson
>good streamer
An oxymoron if I've ever seen one
Dylan White
>Stop fucking with the good vidya streamers. End yourself
Adam Powell
>women can make thousands of dollars a month being terrible at games just for having tits
Adrian Nguyen
if it's confirmed the person who did it was just a shitty tween I would just give the money back.
Connor Young
I don't mean just donations pham anything on paypal, from runescape to chinese robot dildos
Christopher Mitchell
R8 my pup
Jack Jenkins
>this article causes a massive increase in chargebacks >many streamers BTFO forever while screaming at their remaining fans >the free market wins again
Nathan Bennett
or
you select the ability for no refunds/chargebacks
its a feature
Carson Kelly
What is the rarest dog in the world, Sup Forums?
Aaron Perez
>unlikeable black cunt makes a video where he loudly tells you how to cost him money and get his paypal frozen >expects it to stop
Charles Baker
australian/10
Christopher Stewart
>El Presador based big dog working the smarks
Caleb Kelly
I won't lie user, the thumbnail made me afraid to click that
Jace Miller
Yeah, this is some bullshit. I can understand not liking youtubers /streamers / ecelebs. I can understand not liking the content they make, or "make". But going out of your way to fuck up with them in such a personal way, a way that touches their finances and life, is such a fucking shitty thing to do. Especially when you don't even know them and have no real grudge other than "I saw them on the internet and I didn't like them". You must be a special kind of loser to be so miserable that you would do something like this.
Joshua Young
Why doesn't paypal simply allow people the option to only accept guaranteed transfers?
Ethan Jones
That's the thing. I don't pay them already, obviously, but there's no reason anybody should actually be able to sustain a living on that kind of degenerate trash. Think of your fellow countrymen for once, user.
Jose Cruz
>paying anyone money to play games and give there shit opinion
Anyone who gives money to these lazy fucks are straight retarded.
Cooper Evans
the worst kind of people. instead of pursuing an Actual career they sperg in front of a camera an spoil a game for you. and want money for that. it's a low effort """job""". for me it was turning something fun into a cheap cash grab. people like these ruined everything: twitch, youtube, kickstarter, patreon, DLSite
John Diaz
Are they getting taxed tho?
Matthew Green
>people should only use their money they I think they should
Christian Baker
go back
Sebastian Richardson
>willingly watches a video game stream, knowing full well what game was going to be played >"how dare they spoil this for me!"
Brody Murphy
How do you know a transfer is guaranteed?
Gabriel Robinson
Not being refundable, I guess.
Oliver Howard
Did that pupper get the criminal?
Camden Howard
>actual career
Fuck off, you get paid for providing a good or service, it's a real career. One woman I met at a conference was making 6 digits by finding and selecting models for tv commercials.
Evan Nguyen
I guess you could make them check a little box that says "I hereby give up my right to chargeback this transfer".
Jace Bennett
Streamer here, if I gave you 20 bucks on the house, would you report it on your income? (In a stereotypical black voice) Hail naw.
Benjamin Howard
>professional streamer and YouTuber
Brandon King
It's not like you can't get the money back because you can.
This dude got 400 burgerdollars donated to him by a user called "random guy" on twitch and he tried to chargeback all 56 donations.
Needless to say the kid got fucked when the streamer fought back.
I don't dislike streamers because they have a nice gig (entry level gigs fucking suck, if you can do a bit better than that doing what you like go for it) I dislike them for the same reason as cam girls- it's mostly taking advantage of broken people.
Like, I just could never accept shit like a stranger sending me a $5000 plus computer.
is there a popular stream who doesn't do all the twitch bullshit like stopping for 5 minutes to do a shout out? Someone who just has a tip jar or something and doesn't point it out every 5 minutes.
Owen Thompson
lmao fuck off streamer nerd, I do this shit all the time for jokes. It's fucking great to watch them freak out over a steam over $100 and know that disappointment the next time they look at their paypal account. Fuck these leaches, go get a real job nerds.
Brody Gonzalez
That is not good nor bad, it's just a challenge for people who explore this relatively new "job" structure. They have shouldn't be complaining when they have it so easy.
David Wood
>good vidya streamers. that doesn't exists faggot i like cats
Evan Russell
>there
Henry Martin
I'm sure there are plenty of jobs nowadays that people 100 years ago wouldn't have considered "real jobs". Who gives a fuck? If they make money doing something then good for them.
what a fucking retarded face I wish him a slow, painful death
Josiah Harris
>viewers weaponize chargebacks against them Wow, I hadn't even thought of this. Thanks, Sup Forums! Gonna try this out now
Nathan Jackson
Your whole economy was built by taking advantage of broken people
Easton Diaz
Get a JOB.
Isaac Lopez
In Germany they are now.
Bentley Fisher
>streamer >good Pick one and only one. If you care at all about other people watching what you do, you are a loser and a failure. If you also set it up as the way you make a living, then you're stupid on top of that.
Josiah Young
DSP
Josiah Richardson
>Nigger >Welfare
Ryder Bennett
Can someone program some shit to make this automatically to a bunch of streamers?
Sebastian Brooks
>haha, I'm 12 years old and use my mummy's cc to give money to someone online who pretends to be my friend xD
Kill yourself
Dominic Martinez
sadyfhjk makes as much sense as your post
Chase Bell
>Can someone explain Sup Forums's war with streamers Streamer and ecelb threads aren't videogames. They are the same level of VIDEOGAMES that some faggot blogging about his life in the OP is.
Fuck podcasters, fuck streamers, fuck silly XD youtube video makers.
POST FUCKING VIDEOGAMES YOU DUMB NIGGER THIS IS A BOARD FOR VIDEOGAMES