Regarding the "Saudi Arabia" ban

I'm coming at it as a pretty new person...

The whole thing seems pretty toxic. I dunno why he gets so angry at people.

I have a hard time figuring out whether it's a bit, and he's playing a character, or he's actually really raging at the game he plays, or his chat, or whatever. It's just so uncomfortable when he takes 15 minutes to single someone out, and then talk about how much he doesn't like the community he's created.

I started watching the stream on the recommendation of Blindboy, an Irish streamer/author/musician, and in that chat room, it's all love and laughter. But every time I watch a Limmy stream, it's steeped in resentment and general bad energy. I dunno if this has always been the case -- I like his comedy and interviews and stuff, and I was familiar with the guy long before I started tuning in on Twitch.

There are some parts that are fun, but then these are pretty utterly extinguished when he (and the mods in lock-step behind him) goes on these extended rants about how stupid we all are. It doesn't feel good. If he was playing a character, I guess, I could understand it. But that's not very clear to me, as a newcomer.

The whole thing just feels unwelcoming and hostile. At times, I just have to shut it off because it feels like people who are well-meaning but made some blunder, in a crowd of like 3k people, are put on the chopping block to answer for imagined crimes against the stream. I don't think it's good for anybody's mental health.

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