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Tyler Steinkamp (2017)

Tyler Steinkamp (born March 7, 1995 ), better known as tyler1 , is an American streamer on Twitch.tv and internet personality. He's one of League of Legends' most popular online personalities, with just over three million followers on Twitch. Steinkamp was banned from playing League of Legends from April 2016 to January 2018 because he had behaved in a disruptive manner towards other players, which earned him the nickname "The Most Toxic Player in North America". His first League of Legends stream after the reinstatement peaked at more than 386,000 viewers on Twitch, a number that at the time as the largest non-tournament-related number of audience the site was.

Career

First popularity and ban

Steinkamp was ranked 14th on the North American League of Legends ladder in 2014, but his stream had a modest following through 2016. Steinkamp was originally known in the League of Legends community for his toxic behavior on his stream, which included attacking others personally, encouraging suicide, and deliberately ditching the game to the detriment of his teammates. This behavior eventually led to permanent bans on 22 accounts for several years.

Steinkamp gained rapidly in popularity in April 2016 when he publicly announced that he had improved. His Twitch channel reportedly rose from around 5,700 followers before the announcement to over 92,000 followers by the end of the month. His improved demeanor quickly faded, but his following continued to grow and this caused several high profile and professional players to condemn his behavior. Those who opposed Steinkamp's behavior believed that his popularity would encourage and normalize player toxicity, and criticized developer Riot Games for failing to take steps to prevent this behavior.

On April 30, 2016, Riot Games employee Riot Socrates announced that Steinkamp would not have a League of Legends account due to "a well-documented history of verbal abuse bans" and player harassment. As part of a riot games practice known as ID banning, accounts that Steinkamp played publicly on the internet would be blocked immediately, even if the rules for the account had not yet been broken. To date, this type of ban has only been imposed a few times in League of Legends history.

After Steinkamp was banned, he was forced to part ways with playing League of Legends. To further increase his fan base, he streamed an extraordinary video. His stream attracted media attention when he a 45-minute action parody of his life in front of a green screen for the April Fools' Day in 2018 with the title A Day in the Life of Tyler1 played. He also continued to play other games like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds .

In October 2017, Riot Games employee Aaron "Sanjuro" Rutledge made abusive comments about Steinkamp on the official League Discord channel. A few days later, investigative esports journalist Richard Lewis reported that Rutledge was no longer working at Riot Games.

return

In late 2017, Steinkamp announced during a stream that his ban would be lifted at the end of the year if the accounts he played last month were free of abusive behavior. In January 2018, Steinkamp announced that he had not been banned, which was later confirmed by Riot Games. Tyler's first stream after being banned in January 2018 peaked at over 382,000 viewers, breaking the record for most concurrent viewers for a single streamer on Twitch, which was discontinued by Faker in 2017. This record was set a month later by Dr. DisRespect's first stream broken after returning from a two-month hiatus, despite sources mismatched with Twitch due to conflicting media reports and technical issues.

During an angry cannonade of abuse over recent game changes, Steinkamp admitted he was addicted to League of Legends, prompting other members of the community to share their addiction stories and provide advice from Riot Games staff.

In February 2018, Steinkamp exceeded 30,000 paid subscribers on his Twitch channel. As of September 2018, Steinkamp's Twitch channel has nearly 2 million followers and more than 80 million views, and his YouTube channel has more than 1 million subscribers and nearly 200 million views.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Twitch. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
  2. ^ Daniel Friedman: The difficulty in banning the 'most toxic League of Legends player in North America'. January 10, 2017, accessed November 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Austen Goslin: Tyler1 breaks Twitch records in his first stream after his ban. January 8, 2018, accessed November 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The Story of Tyler1. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ The Most Toxic League of Legends Player Is Back, But Riot May Have Stunted His #Reformation. January 18, 2018, accessed November 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ James Dator: Popular toxic streamer Tyler1 issued permanent ban. April 30, 2016, accessed November 24, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Julia Alexander: Dr. DisRespect sets huge new Twitch streaming record, beating Tyler1. February 6, 2018, accessed November 24, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Riot Responds to User With Addiction League. Retrieved November 24, 2019 (American English).
  9. ↑ loltyler1. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Tyler1
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinkamp, ​​Tyler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American streamer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1995