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Crewfu Appreciation Week Day 7: Free Choice

I don’t have an issue with volume on his music but I do have an issue understanding the lyrics cause he doesn’t enunciate lmao. There’s a funny post about this somewhere I’ll find it and reblog it after this.

it’s really immature tbh and does show that steve may have been right. i think some chatters may have been caught in the crossfire though with him trying to just cut them all off.

It’s a tough situation. I feel bad for the people who got banned but it really does feel like he had a lot of negative feelings building up over the last several months. I just can’t not respect his decision. He’s had his moments in the past but it’s obvious that his mindset towards streaming is very different than it was a few years ago. Stuff that didn’t bother him then obviously does now. When he addressed the “cliques” in chat before I’m pretty sure he said they made him miserable and not want to stream so I don’t know how much more direct he could have been.

Here’s this clip from chiblee which is relevant I think:

Steve has expressed more often that he's tired of certain elements of his chat, and it makes him not want to stream as much. He got tired of logging on and looking over during streams and seeing chatters insulting him or twisting his words/actions and genuinely making his experience unpleasant. A few weeks ago, he discussed this again and added that he hates how cliquey chat is and how they enable each other, but he understands that they're friends. He just wants them to be normal/better, and he felt like their cliquey nature was preventing others from participating. Some of chat tried to argue and claim it was AU chat, but Steve wondered if it was always the Valo chatters that were "this annoying." Some suggested that they had become too comfortable and weren't considering his feelings and maybe they needed to create a safe word for when their behavior was going too far.

A week or so ago, a newer chatter suggested a game to Steve, he played it, but he ended up disliking the game. That chatter had also started getting into the "clique" and had already developed a habit of insulting Steve and bugging him. He decided to ban the user (people thought it was a joke ban), then after he raided, he ended up banning 3 or 4 more people. Some of the banned just happened to get caught up, but he basically banned some people he already expressed repeated annoyance with including Claralikeswawa (I don't remember her original name). He apparently said she was genuinely unlikable and some of the other people were told that they may be nice but he still didn't like their cliquey behavior. He would rather the chat be dead than have to continue dealing with how they were making him feel. (They shared these messages in Baycon's chat)

The next stream when he was playing some truck driving game, a user named Killingboys returned and tried to harass Steve on behalf of the banned and asked if he was intentionally trying to run away his active chatters. I'm also pretty sure they compared themselves to his "personal 9/11..."

Anyway, Clara and a few others moved to Baycon's chat where they've been trashing Steve in front of Baycon for a week every time they join while Clara claims to "not care" and "nothing a man does will bother her" in between claims of saying "it did bother me, but I'm petty, but idc anymore."

Essentially, Clara and some others aren't owning up to how annoying they were and how many times Steve expressed his frustrations. A specific group did seem to always insult him and be mean, and he told them that he felt like they were always trying to rage bait him. Even Nami, the one who always told the cheesy jokes, had started to become meaner and more insulting by the day. Clara herself stated that she always rage baits men. It felt like a case of them not knowing when to stop. Steve also seemed to think some of them were bummers after they brought up the health of one of Janet's cats to her, and I guess Steve also spoke pretty openly about his issues with chat during the storm chasing streams with DD, who also commented on some of their behavior that he noticed.

Long story short, it's a complex situation. I think Steve hit his limit and finally reacted on his frustrations, and some of chat/his supporters suffered for it. But I also think some of his chatters really need to realize that Steve is a person and their actions do affect him and others, and they need to recognize when to let some things go or stop certain actions. Some had a habit of treating Steve's chat like it was "their" space and they could say and do whatever they wanted.

This is perfect thank you so much for explaining! I went to baycon’s stream today to see if anyone requested steve’s new song and saw people complaining about steve even more than usual. I checked some chat logs in baycon’s stream and saw they were saying they were banned in steve’s chat without explanation and he “took away their safe space.”

I remember getting an ask about Steve talking about the cliques in chat weeks or even months ago so they were fucking warned. I swear I answered and posted that ask but I can’t find it.

Thanks for the well wishes. I appreciate you thinking of me <3

Yeah the thing is I don’t really care how he spends his money. Like I said I think pocket watching other people is lame. Spend your money how you want . I also think them actually going storm chasing was really cool and I’m proud of them getting that plan out of the dms. They’d been talking about going for years.

BUT hearing him complain about how people weren’t throwing money at him anymore to the audience that had helped him with multiple very lucrative subathons at that point is wild. He’s done multiple subathons at this point and still has many goals undelivered from the first subathon. These days he just gets super defensive when people comment on his spending with the cs cases on top of the other stuff and he said he’s been very financially comfortable because of his subathon(s) which is the opposite of what he’s complained about for years.

I think it’s the bare minimum to complete your sub goals from previous events prior to starting a new one but that’s just me. I won’t be spending my money there personally and I guess it’s up to his audience if they are okay with it. I also think it scummy to talk about how long you think your subathon is gonna go on before it even happens.

I pretty much exclusively watch from Foolish’s POV so it’s just very unserious but fun. I only know about other story arcs from random twitter clips but it seems like people are having fun with it. There were a lot of issues with the last server which is why I didn’t watch for the first few weeks but I saw some clips on twitter that made me want to start watching. Seeing Foolish and Juan yes and each other has been so funny like I’ve cried laughing multiple times from them. I love a fun rivals to besties arc.

But yeah I’ve just been enjoying the silliness for now and trying (and failing) to not get too attached to another Minecraft server.