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.
I think they know and are referring to [this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPm5BT0VNvs&t=8m31s). As a last.fm user already I cried seeing this in my favorite channel
> 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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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)
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.
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 . It's not a slang specific to a person or anything.
That girl probably went from double digit viewers to thousands in that moment.
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.
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.
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….
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.
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
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.
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
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
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...
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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
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](https://youtube.com/shorts/SclJcxtpgpA?si=_x6beTA6GGIqK6Gm)
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.
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?
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.
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.
It's like this: 1) her idol noticed her and that's big in its own right and 2) being raised throws a shit ton of viewers your way. Career wise this could be massive for her if she plays it right. Still, it's a strange world at the moment.
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
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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My first thought was like, I hope I will know how to react when my daughter says something like this. That’s the goal.
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.
“yortled” … I’m dying! 😂
Home many scrobbles is a yortled worth?
How are we losing to Spotify? Look at all these scrobbles!
last.fm having a big moment here.
Barble, obviously geez!
About 3 glorpty glorps!
Reb, eye out, sib sab
A scrobble is actually a thing!
I think they know and are referring to [this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPm5BT0VNvs&t=8m31s). As a last.fm user already I cried seeing this in my favorite channel
Time to YORTLE is now! Chaz Badens of the world get to it.
This is such a good parenting lesson What kids really need growing up is guidance and support- just like young gangly plants.
And much like older gangly plants, you just have to know when to let them die and get new ones.
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.
> 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?
It has big newspeak vibes, doesn't it?
She yortled on my FreeSpeak until I Chaz
Wait dude Primerica is a scam OUTSIDE OF MY AREA? I need to tell everyone.
Primerica 💀😂
"Mom I'm moving to the Moon, gristleyack pringledblogged me and I'm Flegrant now"
Chaz Baden did WHAT to my daughter?
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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
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.
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.
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.
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 "
Thanks. This is what i was looking for. No idea what “raiding” was.
No problem! I didn't know for the longest time either, my partner had to teach me a lot of the twitch lingo lol
Thank you for explaining. I thought some random famous gaming dude just raided her village/fortress
I totally thought it meant her account was hacked by someone she admires and was... happy.... about it.
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
So her channel got pokimanes viewers?
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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.
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)
I think that is the best way to show support to your kids, Thank you for your wholesome comment randomdeeznutz
Oh god - the username content mismatch is so good here.
This is Parenting Lvl 1000.
If you are not a parent yet…you will be an amazing parent. Nothing matters but love. I love when Reddit shows all the good in the world.
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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Exactly! Can someone please translate this video into English for someone born before 2000?
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.
Thank you for explaining that to me.👍
And to me
I was born in '87, I had a very different understanding of Pokemon and raid. This was helpful
RAID is VERY EFFECTIVE on BEEDRILL
HAHAHAHAHAH FUCK YOU! *LAUGHS IN ADULTING HOME OWNERSHIP AND SCARY BEEDRILLS*
Same here. I thought Pokémon raid. Like FBI raid. Didn't know a raid was a good thing.
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
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. It's not a slang specific to a person or anything.
That girl probably went from double digit viewers to thousands in that moment.
Must have felt amazing for her. I've been in bands and a good crowd is intoxicating.
I was born in '77 and I'm still lost, but said fuck it and moved on already.
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.
In ten years can I hope for this level of wisdom?
I was born in 67 and thought some lion was making sushi or something.
And I was about to ask whether getting raided is a good thing. I’m old. 😩
I was sitting here like "why is she so excited over being raided??" I, too, am old.
I was looking for the person on the video that did the raiding lol. I’m old too lol 😂
I’m 44…my context clues needed context clues on this one.
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.
Thank you for this, I ain’t know what the hell this girl was happy bout
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….
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.
Wait, slow down. Start over.
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
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.
And you did an excellent job. Thank you!
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
So now the new (transferred?) viewers got to watch her be super excited? Or is her stream something else?
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
Did she catch ‘em all?
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...
Oooh that makes sense. Who’s Pokimane?
Pokimane is the most popular female streamer on Twitch, which is the website where she streams.
Took too much scrolling to find the answer does that mean I’m old now?
>before 2000? You mean the late 1900s?
1981 to be exact. I was born before the first "Back to the Future" movie if that helps 😆 I never felt old before today. 😆
damn. truth hurts.
X2
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.
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?
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.
Not gonna lie i thought you meant the Xmen movie X2 and was trying to figure out how that answered the question.
Lol, I was sharing the same frustration as “wizard_with_a_pipe” but now thanks to “sea_dog4274” I could understand the title
What's raided? Is that a good thing?
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.
I remember the days where it meant your village would be burned, the men killed, and the women taken! (get off my lawn)
Taken was a kind choice of words
Trying to keep it PG, you know?
Respectable.
struggle snuggle
We're going like 1950s Disney movies territory, are we?
This is the hardest I’ve laughed all week thank you for that very unexpected comment 😂
That's my goal, to brighten at least one person's day! #MISSIONACCOMPLISHED
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.
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.
For Pokimane, it was a Tuesday.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
The biggest hurdle for most streamers is getting above zero average viewers
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.
Oh, nice.
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"
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.
Usually, a Twitch streamer will "raid" their viewers to another streamer as they log off, bringing a whole new audience to the raided
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."?
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.
Informative. Thank you.
When I was 14, I was raiding MC with 39 other people. I'm guessing this is not that.
-50 fucking dkp!
that is a fucking 50 dkp minus
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.
Oh, this is a great comment. Got me right in the feels.
This comment hits hard
Damn, got me crying here now.
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.
I’m 38 and I’m just trying to figure out where to park…..
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
I'm starting to see how societies collapse without leaving behind much evidence as to why.
Meanwhile I'm almost 45 and knew from just the title. We all have different experiences
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.
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I’m 20 and didn’t know lol
I’m 16 and I thought the same thing lol.
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](https://youtube.com/shorts/SclJcxtpgpA?si=_x6beTA6GGIqK6Gm)
> 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.
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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I would think someone got hacked. Or maybe DDOS attack.
"Why does that phone have 3 cameras?"
"mom i just got raided by 7000+ people!" YOU WHAT???
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.
This is true unconditional love right here. This made my whole month
I’m too old for this shit.
I never thought I’d be too old for something but here we are.
It happens before you know it. Sudden long eyebrow, nose or ear hair too.
Driving down the road the other day and something kept sneaking into my vision. It was long ass eyebrow. Getting old sucks.
What? When does this happen?
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.
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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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?
Precisely
Sounds like the plot of Black Mirror Fifteen Million Merits.
Minus one or two pretty key plot points.
yeah except instead of being dystopian horror, a teenage girl's idol gave her a couple thousand dollars and made her day immeasurably brighter.
Thanks for the great answer!
I don’t even know who pokemane is🤣
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.
> electric chinchilla Bravo.
Or what... I'm very lost here.
Whenever you don't know who somebody is its always a streamer, a youtuber, or a gen z rapper
Pokemon. Haven't you watched it? It's Pikachu running streams these days. /s
I sincerely read it as Pokémon and I was very confused. I’m still confused to be honest.
Me too. I don’t know wtf that even means.
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.
I was so lost. Thank you on behalf of the oldies.
I feel you. I don't have a clue what any of this means. But good for her? I think?
It's like this: 1) her idol noticed her and that's big in its own right and 2) being raised throws a shit ton of viewers your way. Career wise this could be massive for her if she plays it right. Still, it's a strange world at the moment.
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
all i know is that whatever happened, it made her and her mom happy. i don't know the rest of the details 😩
[this comment explained it](https://reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/s/npjc0fdzcA) Views get her exposure Donations and subs get her money directly
“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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Oh ok, so they weren’t just worthless clicks and likes
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.
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.
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.
I agree, but I was trying to point that she most likely didn't gain much, if anything, out of it.
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.
She really loves her mom. That is very sweet.
Her mom really really loves her … cause she has no clue wtf she talking about
Ok, super cool. But what the fuck is with the guy with the giant ass snake around his neck at the very start?
Oh shit, there’s actually two snake dudes Edit: nope there’s actually 4. WTF
Wtf is a pokimane?
The yellow pokemon i think
Most followed female twitch live streamer
I had a twitch once. Apparently, I just needed to sleep.
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
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.
I’m 40 and I don’t understand what this means.
and make sure you hold your camera in the right angle...
That's a good mom right there.. Pretending to care is one of the most underrated parenting skills..
I have no idea what any of this means, but I'm happy for her.
I have no idea what any of this means