A long time ago when I went by a different name, I had a custom Fortnite game night stream with some streamer friends. Well, one of these friends invited a mutual I’ve never interacted with before; they were a friend of my friend, so surely the vibes wouldn’t be too different from who I know, right?
WELL the guy came into vc already drunk off his ass and proceeded to obnoxiously spam his mic with his intoxicated verbal stream of consciousness, not even ONCE acknowledging any of the other people playing the game, let alone those who were also streaming it. I’d mute discord to talk to my chatters, but this guy’s drunken ramblings were so overpowering and belligerent that I couldn’t even think straight enough to say a single coherent sentence. I’ve never been so overwhelmed in my life, bro literally stun-locked me. He left after 30 minutes to get back to his own stream, and I had to take a solid 5 to sit in silence and recover my sanity. Never saw this dude ever again, nor would I ever want to…
Besides that, literally ALL the collabs I’ve been in have been amongst the best times of my life; my friends are awesome 🫶
Do you guys have any bad collab experiences?
My worst one was a couple years ago with a VTuber. We were supposed to play Valorant together, but something came up on their end. They canceled less than an hour before we were scheduled to go live. I get that emergencies happen, so I reached out to reschedule… and got completely ghosted. A short while later, they even unfollowed me.
We had similar-sized audiences, so it wasn’t like I was a nobody to them. I was just left hanging with nothing. I hope they were okay, but it definitely left a sour taste in my mouth.