10 Awkward Moments Streamed Live by Mistake
Sure, we've all done something embarrassing before, most of us on multiple occasions.
We get into fights for the wrong reasons, say things we regret, and write awkward love
letters or bad fan fiction.
It's a part of being human.
But thanks to the magic of the internet, the mistakes that we used to be able to quietly
live down can now be preserved forever, for the entertainment of the masses.
We're not a hundred percent sure why it's so fascinating to see other people at their
most awkward, but it sure is.
So here, submitted for everyone's enjoyment, are ten of our favorite awkward moments streamed
live by mistake.
Too Much Now, look: we don't blame the popular live
streamer KittyPlays for getting excited when one of her followers sends her a truly enormous
four-figure donation.
That kind of money is enough to make anybody jump up and down for joy!
But what makes this clip so awkward is the way she processes the overwhelming emotions
of her sudden windfall.
Over the course of several minutes, she shrieks in higher and higher tones until her voice
cracks, curls up in a ball and mutters “no, no, no” over and over again, and rolls around
on the floor, among other antics.
Don't get us wrong: it's heartwarming to know that KittyPlays has stumbled into such good
fortune.
But at the same time, her extended inability to come to grips with it quickly becomes about
as comfortable to watch as a supercut of politicians hugging each other.
Bathroom Break It's one thing to be a bit out of it after
some heavy drinking.
Alcohol is a depressant, after all.
It makes people tired and slows their response times.
But one live streamer took blackout drunk to a whole new level of awkward embarrassment
in this video clip.
After drinking on camera and then falling asleep for a while, he seems to wake up when
he gets a phone call – but it quickly becomes clear that he's not entirely lucid, as he
stands up, opens his fly, and proceeds to pee all over his own keyboard.
Thankfully, viewers can't actually see any of the explicit details – but the sound
is unmistakable, and thanks to his webcam, the shame is everlasting.
Trash Fire You'd think that 40 years of life would confer
some amount of common sense, but this streamer is living proof that age and wisdom don't
always go hand in hand.
A Japanese streamer, Yoshihiro Mazda, was a product reviewer who decided to review a
lighter for his audience.
With the camera running, Mazda tosses a lighter fluid-soaked tissue in the trash, tries to
light a match, catches the entire matchbox on fire, and throws the still-burning match
and the flaming box in two different places, making it impossible to keep an eye on both
fires at once.
The results are as predictable as they are awkward – The garbage behind him catches
while he's looking at the other flame, and things quickly spiral out of control.
Soon he tries to extinguish the trash fire, but his efforts are unsuccessful.
Reports from Japan indicate that the fire eventually spread to three apartments.
In fact, one woman eventually died in the blaze.
Let this be a lesson: if you're too awkward to know what to do with a lit match, don't
play with fire.
Cringe Fight!
People don't look good when they lose their cool.
They either come off seeming rude and unpleasant, or belligerent and aggressive.
So what could be more uncomfortable than a live streaming video with both kinds of awkwardness?
In this infamous clip, the e-sports streaming channel ESL is running a talk show-style discussion
of a Starcraft 2 tournament, when one of the hosts, Paul Chaloner, notices that someone
is about to walk in front of the camera by accident.
The host quickly warns the man not to block the camera, but the warning comes too late,
and the man walks by without realizing he's stepped in front of a live show.
It's over quickly enough, though Paul has the bright idea of calling the guy an idiot,
which makes him come off as a bit of a jerk.
But that's not the end of it – after hearing the insult, the screen-crosser comes right
back up to the host, leans into his face, and starts getting into it.
Paul keeps his cool, but refuses to acknowledge that he said anything rude, making the other
guy even angrier.
Between Paul's obvious discomfort and the interloper's unnecessary anger, the clip is
enough to make any viewer squirm.
Candid Camera Bjergsen is a popular competitive League of
Legends player and Twitch streamer who suffered a very awkward moment while live streaming
at his family home.
Unaware that her son's camera is on, Bjergsen's mother, who's apparently just finished with
a shower, walks past his room and stops briefly to check on him.
Unfortunately, she's in her underwear when she does so.
Of course, it's not unusual for someone to be dressed down in their own house, but Bjergsen
finds himself in an extremely awkward situation, getting embarrassed on his mother's behalf,
since a lot of people are watching and she doesn't know it.
He shoos her away and quickly pushes his door shut, but he's still clearly mortified.
At least he has a laugh about it afterward.
Accidental Exhibitionist Boys do it.
Girls do it.
Most people old enough to think about it do it at least sometimes.
But much like what we do while we're sitting on the toilet, what we do when we're feeling
frisky is something most of us keep strictly private.
So we can only imagine the embarrassment that Twitch streamer Darksyde Phil felt when he
decided to limber up for his daily streaming session with a quick... uh, massage, and only
realized afterward that his webcam had been on the whole time.
Mercifully, nothing can be seen on camera except Phil's head, shoulders, and forearms,
but even watching those parts of him in motion is still more than enough for a viewer's imagination
to fill in the blanks.
Darksyde Phil took his embarrassment in stride, and we're glad for that.
But it's still unbearably awkward to even think about.
Hardware Fail Twitch user Silent Sentry, like many Twitch
gamers, has been known to use silly gimmicks to encourage donations.
At the time of this awkward moment, his gimmick was putting on a horse-head mask and spinning
around a stripper pole beside his chair.
It sounds embarrassing, but since Silent Sentry was doing it on purpose, it was all in good
fun.
However, the gimmick – and Silent Sentry- soon fell flat when he jumped up in his horse
mask for a quick spin around the pole, and the pole came loose, crashing into his gaming
rig and cutting short the festivities.
Maybe next time, he'll spend some of the attention he gives his fans on doing a better job installing
his props.
Epic Freak-out Outlast isn't a game for the faint of heart.
It's a horror title full of dark spaces, creepy rooms, and some of the most startling jump
scares in the genre.
Many a streamer has been laid low by the sudden shock as a ghoulish horror pops up seemingly
from nowhere in the pitch darkness and viciously attacks them.
And let's be honest: if you've played Outlast, you know this monster attack is such a good
scare that anybody would jump.
Some people might even yell.
But one man went overboard into straight-up awkward territory when his character was ambushed,
flailing wildly before jumping completely free of his chair and screaming “what is
that?!”
at his computer.
Dude, it's a horror game.
What did you expect?
School's In Session Nobody gets along with their folks a hundred
percent of the time.
But – much like yelling at children in the grocery store – it's bad form to disrespect
one's parents in public view, especially when the parent in question is clearly on the right
side of the fight.
That's what makes this clip of the Twitch streamer Rexy so incredibly awkward.
Rexy has told his mother that he's too sick to go to school, but he's actually just making
up an excuse to get more time to sit at home and stream games.
Needless to say, mom quickly discovers what he's up to and schools him all on her own,
threatening to rip all the wires out of his computer if he doesn't get right back into
bed.
What makes this exchange even worse is that Rexy fights back despite having no good excuse,
coming across as lazy, petulant and disrespectful.
Ouch, dude.
Not a good look.
Native American For those who don't know, Poe's Law is a truism
that states that it's impossible to make an online parody that at least some people won't
think is serious.
In other words, on the internet, it's really hard to tell when someone's joking, unless
they come right out and say they are.
That brings us to Twitch streamer AshleyMarieL, whose replies to viewer questions seem to
prove Poe's Law.
They're so unbelievably dense that she... she must be joking...
right?
Our favorite gaffe comes when someone asks her if she's Native American, and she mixes
up the term with North American, talking about how she obviously must be, because they're
playing on an “NA” server.
She goes on to make all kinds of other embarrassing mistakes, but the way she doubles down on
this one without a second thought makes it stand out as the most awkward moment of the
whole terrible exchange.
Those are ten of our favorite awkward moments streamed live by mistake.
What are yours?
Do you have one to share that's always stuck out in your mind?
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