Poisonslash

Uh, yeah no. Literally 3 out of the past 15 games my team has had to FF 15 because we had a mentally ill child running it down simply for not getting their role. No way I'm optionally giving these dumbasses anymore time out of my life because they want to act like lunatics over a video game. And no, the system doesn't always protect you. Only 1/3 of those losses were given LP mitigation. 1 of the games that wasn't given LP mitigation, my top literally left lane to steal jg camps and run down other lanes.

Surrender basically has no purpose in ranked anymore. Don't connect for a minute = remake Go afk or dc = game terminated Somebody inting = game terminated All of the reasons why surrender had to exist back in the day are gone. System is much more robust now and can figure out deeply unfair scenarios, everything else is playable.

@FearedBuck Bro's really hitting the Looksmaxxing + Drugmaxxing into Deathmaxxing combo. "Do you want an addy?" Hey I noticed you're still breathing, would you like to slam more drugs with your drugs sir? 🤣🤣🤣

@DevinNash @aawkdys The dude is literally a clipper who your post is calling out. Of course he is butthurt 🤣

@aawkdys I am excited to read your upcoming post. 🔥

If you understand this chart you understand the state of livestreaming in 2026. You can propel any influencer to high viewership regardless of content quality by tricking algorithms into featuring them. It guarantees followers and is basically pay to win. Here's how it works: Central Discord servers post opportunities for anyone to clip any content from a streamer in exchange for CPM ($s per 1000 views.) Typical CPMs are .50c to $2, with a minimum view limit for payout of 100,000 views. The clippers are mostly second or third world where the USD currency exchange rate is more favorable. Platforms are usually Tiktok, Instagram, and YT Shorts, but also sometimes X. Clavicular has said payouts are sometimes as high as $30 CPM, but I don't believe that. Because of the view limit, many of the views on these charts are free. Clavicular had 2.2 billion views on 70,000 clips, putting the average clip at 31,700 views. That would suggest most of the views are free (below the 100,000 view limit.) I am also told a single clipper can count multiple clips towards that view limit. If that is true, it would make these campaigns much more expensive than what I state below. Assuming 90% of the views are free, it would cost about $222,123 a month to run his campaign alone at $1 CPM. That number goes up to $666,371 if only 70% of the views are free. It's also exponentially higher if the CPMs are even remotely where Clavicular says they are (it would be in the millions per month.) Now here's the interesting part. None of these people are running these themselves. With respect to these streamers, some of them are quite smart but none of them have the marketing prowess to run a campaign like this. These campaigns are being run and funded by Kick themselves. To quote Clav on stream last month: "I believe it’s about a thousand clippers right now. A billion views a month. Kick has helped push me a lot with their clipping budget, over six figures a month in that campaign going towards pushing me out to new audiences." Kick is spending MILLIONs of dollars a month promoting these streamers, and then is also paying them via their partner program as well. It seems to be totally arbitrary who gets promoted and who doesn't, a "who you know" sort of thing. This is a different approach to Twitch's growth marketing strategy that they executed from 2012-2019ish, which was to pay streamers for exclusivity and the number of viewers they had with MGs and bonuses. It's a much more effective strategy because it abuses algorithms. 70,000 clips in a month of Clavicular tells an algorithm "hey a ton of people are posting about this person, make sure anything he posts blows up." You could be the most uninteresting person ever (indeed some of the people on this list are) and still get massive reach because it's not the people that are voting on your popularity with engagement. It's the algorithm pushing it no matter what because it's taught that sheer volume of posts about the same thing = that thing is important. From one perspective this is astroturfing content creators and creating false ecosystems. From another it's a new age multi-million dollar marketing campaign from a platform to drive viewers to itself. Wherever you stand on it, streaming is a much more "gamed" ecosystem now and will remain so. There's no real way to police this behavior since it hijacks how algorithms perceive growth and serve content. This makes livestreaming the most "rigged game" in content creation and you will see very few broadcasters come up in the next couple years who aren't utilizing this strategy.

A big reason why being a content creator has lost it's appeal. This trend Kick normalized has ruined the space. Instead of organically growing their platform like Twitch and YouTube did, they're flooding other platforms with degenerate content trying to siphon viewers. Cheating the system, and hurting the real creators that their platform should be built off. All because they want to flex about beating Twitch, something that will never happen when you actually try and use the Kick platform... it's fucking horrendous. Ridiculous amount of bots, and even "Kick staff" bots that will come into your channel and advertise their giveaways/clip farms/etc... Plus poor functionality and admin tools. It's just a terrible platform when you compare it to YouTube or Twitch. But can you really expect much from a platform that has based it's content on glorifying drug abuse, public nuisances, sexual assaults' and gambling addiction. If anything I feel like this is another big issue people don't talk about enough, as it's ruining the younger generations growing up and watching this type of content. Especially when you look at their newest poster boy, Clavicular, and the blatant drug abuse and self-injury he promotes.

The moment Clavicular overdosed on stream

What's also crazy is to thing how many games came out of Warcraft itself. Not only did we get World of Warcraft, but people like Eul making the original DoTA WC3 custom map. Which then lead into DOTA 2, League of Legends and pretty much the MOBA genre as a whole. Then came Auto Chess and TFT.

Well yeah WoW is going to stand out from those examples I listed previously. Not only did it come out after all of them and used all the new modern technologies, but it was build off a highly developed, popular IP (Warcraft) and funded by one of the biggest game companies of the era. Even if they wanted too, not many people could have competed with the titan that was Blizzard back then.

Zoomers don't understand that in 2004 it was a genuinely magical moment to have characters in a videogame that were OTHER PLAYERS instead of NPCs

I mean just because WoW was YOUR first MMORPG doesn't mean that's how it was for everyone else. For most gamers born during that time, the 90's are often considered the "golden age" of gaming where technology rapidly leapt from 16 bit 2D gaming to 32 bit 3D games. Games like Meridian 59 and The Realm Online paved the way for the MMORPG genre, leading into games like Asheron's Call, Everquest and eventually WoW. WoW became the titan it did because not only was it built off an extremely popular IP (Warcraft) at the time, but it was created by one of the most successful gaming companies of the era and had funding that not many others did. And it wasn't just nerds playing these games growing up. Literally most of the kids at school I knew were playing games like Neopets, Runescape, Warcraft/WoW, Diablo, MapleStory, Ragnarok Online, etc... Maybe not where you live but here in Canada gaming was huge back then.

@PoisonslashX @kleeposting None of those other MMOs pierced the mainstream market and become culturally relevant like WoW did. For me, and most people WoW was the first real MMO to exist. Only a handful of hardcore computer nerds even knew about those, back then that number was less than 1%

I do this as well. The logic behind it is that when you're a jungler, smite is more important to get off quickly when contesting. You use it a lot more then your other sums. But playing lane, something like flash is much more important. Essentially put your most valuable summoner spell on your closest key.

I actually never noticed BB is playing Flash on D and F, depending if he plays top or jungle xD What's the story behind it? @BrokenBlade

My team wanted to FF... but I had other plans! 😈 #leagueoflegends

@OldInternetFeel Man I miss watching Pure Pwnage growing up. That stuff was hilarious

BOOM HEADSHOT (2009)

@litteralyme0 Can also create your own private Discord server.

Just realized you can create a private X account post everything follow no one Unlimited cloud storage unlocked

@CanusTaureus @Kaisaswife No, but I think you're retarded and can't read. The guy literally said he has played Ezreal Jungle on the accounts that Drew Levin is roasting him about! Get Drew's dick out of your mouth.

@PoisonslashX @Kaisaswife Do you seriously think first timing Ezreal jungle in ranked is not lobby terminated worthy? Do you just fundamentally disagree with lobby termination? You think all games should go thru no matter if someone is hostage taking?

imagine being COOKED this HARD by DREW LEVIN XD

@BluKreamx People are impressed by basic conversation skills?

This clip of Ekane ordering her food in the drive-thru is going viral because people can’t get over how effortlessly she did it 😭🔥

Nunu Completely Lobotomizes Reworked Shyvana 🤪 Been getting back into editing and cooked up this banger. #LeagueOfLegends

@notwyre They don't call him PogO Polom for nothing.

the fact that this guy hasn’t been exposed as a creep yet is an achievement in itself

@i0ki_LoL These recent posts of people getting banned for off meta picks even though they are playing to win... Meanwhile my top is filled, didn't get his role traded and runs it down 0/13 on Sona... No LP reduction or anything. System totally working as intended

What's INTERESTING is that I just got a Lobby Terminated and a 15 minute queue lockout for locking in Leona Jungle. I did not speak a word. It's curious -- so my teammates are allowed to determine what champion I play but not the other way around? 🤔 Defend this.

@elonmusk A flying car just spawned outside my house.

Canada is cooked