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Comment by chris-orgmenta | Hacker News Reader

It's also worth noting that, in general, Twitch chat is less toxic for Chess than other games/categories.

I do peruse Twitch fairly regularly looking for streams that resonate. I'm always repulsed by a "LET'S GO BOYS" mentality which meanders between homophobia, sexism, bullying, hate speech.

Chess is a very good thing for Twitch.

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We must be looking at different chess streams. Bullying is super common in a lot of the popular ones, and some of the mods take part in it.

Actually most of the pogchamps players have commented how their chat is more toxic when they're playing chess than other games because of the backseating.

Different kinds of toxicity-- mocking people for missing a mate or hanging a piece is tempting (and perhaps stings more than some random's judgment call about whether you played a round well in some non-perfect-knowledge, reflex-drive game). So more of that type of problem, but a bit less of other types like sexism.

I honestly can't stand Twitch chat, nor do I understand it. Where do all these random made up words come from, and how are you supposed to know what they stand for, I simply don't get it.

There's a few streamers I watch semi-regularly, but I always turn off the chat.

Memes, jokes, culture. You’ll find it in pretty much any internet community to varying degrees.

I get that, I just mean that I've never felt so disconnected from something before.

Just guessing but you’d probably have to be in your teens and with plenty of time to kill to really get into it.

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