![]() ![]() “I’ve also just started to have fun with people trolling me,” she said. The number of trolls she encounters has declined sharply over the last few years, with maybe one appearing every couple of weeks, “but that’s it.”īeyond her moderators and a supportive fanbase, Yuna also said she’s learned how to personally deal with toxicity. “Now, I have moderators who remove all the people who come into my streams to say negative things,” she said. Since her channel’s grown, Yuna also has more tools at her disposal to keep toxicity off her streams. "They get too serious about video games.” Yuna understands the desire to be competitive, but rejected the idea that competition should involve putting people down, especially women. “I think people just need to relax," she said. Yuna’s experience with Heroes also gave her some perspective on dealing with a toxic community. “I’m happy that I switched over and I started playing these games because, without the switch, I wouldn't have met these people and I wouldn't have grown my community.” She decided to take a chance anyway, hoping to build a new community that centered around the types of games she loved to play as a child. “If you’ve been focusing on one game and you have thousands of followers who want to watch you play that game, you’re going to lose followers and subscribers when you make a switch,” Yuna said. Yet it wasn’t an easy decision because of the risk inherent in changing her content so drastically. She had been playing a lot of JRPGs like Final Fantasy in her free time, and decided to switch things up by adding more of that kind of content into her streams. “There was this one guy I remember that said women shouldn't be playing video games, and even harsher stuff.”Īround that time, Yuna began wondering if it was time for a change. There were a couple of experiences in particular that really put a bad taste in her mouth. Yuna recalls having a lot of anxiety related to trolls in the Heroes of the Storm community. League of Legends has trolls, Call of Duty does too, but there's something about Heroes that gives me a negative vibe now, because of some people that I dealt with in the past.” “It makes me so mad now, because there are so many trolls in that game,” she said. Yuna said she saw the level of toxicity and trolling increase among members of the Heroes community. After the developers shut down their support for the game’s official competitive league at the end of 2018, a lot of Heroes streamers started leaving the scene. ![]() “It was fun, the community was great, and it was generally a good time.” But slowly, Blizzard started making changes to the game that started to give her pause. ![]() It was pretty much the only game she played at the time, for upwards of nine to 10 hours a day. Soon after, Yuna became a spotlight streamer for Blizzard Entertainment, playing multiplayer arena game Heroes of the Storm. I just went in without really knowing about any of that." “I never watched any streamers, and I never watched YouTubers. In a past life, she had been a laser tech at a dermatology clinic, and when she got going on Twitch she was supplementing her streaming income with a second job in online marketing “in case streaming didn’t work out.” She said she wasn’t very familiar with Twitch before starting. Yuna first started streaming around 2015. ![]()
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