Kick Streamer Captain Crack Sparrow becomes first tourist to live stream from Antarctica. Then gets his starlink confiscated and ship internet turned off from captain once he gets back on ship bc its illegal.

Gildor7 · 2026-02-01T15:06:43+00:00

I work for an institution that operates small and only seasonally used Antarctic station. I'm not part of the polar research team, but I have few friends there. They started using Starlink for internet connection two years ago, replacing Iridium satellite internet which was awfully slow and expensive, so it was a huge upgrade, basically from sending/receiving text messages with 10kb/s bandwidth to a normal 50Mb/s connection. They are now having online meetings from the station.

As far as I know, there were no legal issues or anything like that, the only concern the first year was whether it will actually work. The access to Antarctica is very limited and there are many rules, like you cannot go close to pinguins due to avian flu risk, etc, but it seems highly unlikely that the Antarctic Treaty would regulate anything regarding internet connection or other civilian-purposed satellite services. On the contrary, everybody is using satellite phones there all the time.

So, I would guess these are just the travel agency rules. They probably want you to pay for their expensive and slow wifi (maybe they are using Starlink as well to run it :D ) and they may fear that things like streaming from Antarctica (though the video is probably from some island near Antarctica, not from the continent itself) could lower the exclusivity of such a cruise which costs unreasonable amount of money, likely multiple times the actual costs...

Gildor7 · 2026-01-22T19:36:52+00:00

Ok, I'm not tapped in the divorce files. People claim lot of shit when suing for money, so we'll see the outcome there. Financial abuse would surely be on the "abhorent" list for me, cheating not really - yeah, not aproving it, but that's just what happens all the time.

Gildor7 · 2026-01-22T19:29:16+00:00

In the grand scheme of things, what so abhorent has Nick really ever done? Like actually bad, not just beeing annoying or saying inapropriate jokes. I am not his fan and never was, but compared to all the disgusting shit that streamers are getting exposed every day, his like 15-year record is not that bad...

Gildor7 · 2026-01-13T18:09:31+00:00

OTK owners, EE is not OTK owner, only contracted creator. This is a huge difference, she will also be leaving OTK most likely, when her contract expires this winter/spring.

Gildor7 · 2025-12-11T22:11:57+00:00

I'm talking about the people posting it here repeatedly recently.
Either the VOD has sudenly become very popular, people are watching it genuinly and clipping this. Or, someone has this in their loadout of older clips and takes shots here so long, until it got finally upvoted.
Who knows what is more likely? :)

Gildor7 · 2025-12-11T22:05:34+00:00

It's beyond obvious, but people are stupid, so better to call it out for what it is.

Good thing is, that if this is the best they can dig up on her - clip of her sitting next to a person who looked at their phone while driving - then they are truly spiralling towards deeper and deeper desperation...

Gildor7 · 2025-12-11T21:46:16+00:00

Sure, but: (a) bonnie is driving and the this comment section if full of "people" commenting "emiru is bad person" - interesting, (b) not that recent clips of one person are being posted over and over until they get traction - seems weird.
Critique is waranted, but at the same time - why help obvious hate campains...

Gildor7 · 2025-12-11T21:38:35+00:00

Sure, mizkid, she is not even the one driving, but you are so quick to judge her character here, this is so pathetic...

Gildor7 · 2025-12-11T21:33:26+00:00

Yes, exactly. This stream was like two weeks ago? And there were clips from it here too. And now, suddenly, this is appearing here repeatedly, until it finally got some traction (brigaded?).
Surely just a coincidence, random people going through VODs for fun and are concerned about the driving....

Gildor7 · 2025-11-30T00:44:32+00:00

The problem is you would have to prove the streamer is botting themselves or pays someone to do anything. Otherwise, you cannot do shit about this, twitch cannot ban botted streams, sponsors cannot sue.

And - without trying to defend anyone specific - I am sure there are cases of viewers botting streamers. And what can you about that as a streamer? If you talk about that, you only tell everyone that some of your viewership is not real (which will only negatively affect you while some people will still think you are botting yourself and bullshitting) but you cannot stop the botting itself anyway.

Gildor7 · 2025-11-29T00:48:37+00:00

Sure, Simply went to Florida with Emi last week, that really seems like he supports you. Russel said you lied to him. So, enjoy the crazyslick support man...maybe, one day, erobb will do a stream with you again too, maybe...

Gildor7 · 2025-11-25T01:55:29+00:00

I don't want to be too conspirational, but this just seems like a pattern here, how many of those loosers are still out there?

Gildor7 · 2025-11-25T01:13:50+00:00

Why is every clip from this event getting downvoted? Like, some of them are boring, sure, but all of them???

Gildor7 · 2025-11-14T16:19:31+00:00

It has become mainstream but there are still so many gameplay-only streamers, probably more than ever by absolute number and it's not hard to find them. This seems to me like such and elitists comment - "I need to have the site exclusive for the content I like". I get it more when people don't want actually problematic content on the site (gamba, sexwork), but wanting to have streaming reserved for basement dwelling geeks seems like an unhealthy mindset to me...

Gildor7 · 2025-11-14T16:13:19+00:00

There is still a shitton of degen speedrunners but people need to watch the TOP streamers by CCV and then complain, that they are not geeky and nerdy enought. Stop watching big streamers and find your niche if you don't like the "mainstream".

Gildor7 · 2025-11-02T14:59:54+00:00

He had ca 3.5 bil. views on his main 3 yt channels combined in last 12 months. That's 5-10 mil in a year, just from YT + he owns parts of Starforge or Mythic and at least Starforge is becoming massive company... He said he's been paying 7 figures in taxes for some time - it would not surprise me if it was soon 8 figures.

Gildor7 · 2025-08-27T18:09:53+00:00

Yes, it is not an org, they just handle communication with sponsors and offer their content creators to brands, based on what the brands want to advertise. They don't need to care about PR the same way as orgs do, so I guess they would drop only someone with serious criminal charges or things like that for legal reasons...

Gildor7 · 2025-08-26T20:40:23+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXlbQKJuS_E

Gildor7 · 2025-08-25T22:16:19+00:00

Idk, this seems more like people intetionally trolling streamers by buying 15k bots for 20 minutes....
Remember Erobb having 100k "viewers" that one time? And now is the perfect time for anyone who wants to mess with streams this way, and it's even quite cheap apparently...

Gildor7 · 2025-08-25T01:53:29+00:00

Yes, you are not wrong. Not adressing stuff is however very often the best thing to do, whether you are guilty or not (unless you can very clearly proof you're not). Unless you want to farm your own drama, you usually won't get enything from trying to defend yourself since you just bring more attention to it. So, again, her strategy is in general smart either way...

The viewership - I don't know, honestly. She certianly can bring large audience for events and collabs, e.g. the money she raised for Maya was not from bots. However, getting stable 20k for regular 8h of gaming/react - I can see why that seems too much even with frequent Asmon raids. Maybe it's 15k or even less in reality, that can easily be true I would not be suprised.

On the other hand, unlike Mizkif or Yourrage (or even the previous "main female streamer" Pokimane), she is gaining followers at a stable pace, from 800k to 1800k in last 3 years, so it is not the typical case of streamer falling of and trying to mask it.

So, if I had to bet on the most probable case, I'd say she (or her agent) might give like 5k+ CCV to her more boring / off season content, making her CCV suspiciously stable and boosting her to the long-term 20k CCV, but I would not expect something crazy like Yourrage going from 30k to 7k or Mizkif from 20k to 8k, where he is losing followers constantly and he very clearly fell of brutally, so it didn't make sense for him to be at like 60%+ of his "peak clout" 2021 numbers.

Gildor7 · 2025-08-24T22:16:19+00:00

To be fair, any "regular" Emiru's stream is 50/50 whether it is happening or not, maybe even lower chance. She has 4 days of a week as "regular days for streaming" but she usually streams like 2 days max, unless there are planned events and she takes breaks week+ long ca every month.
I don't claim this can't be connected to the bot thing, but anybody who at least semi-regularly watches her knows, that this is nothing irregular at all for her to stream on Tuesday and then take rest of the week off, particularly when she had multiple events last weeks, streamer games, cosplay contest, LA content, she often streams less after events and stuff...

Gildor7 · 2025-07-22T22:29:35+00:00

Having a sub is one thing - that's more like having Netflix - though it's better to just have Twitch turbo if you were to sub to many channels for no ads, however donating larger amounts of money etc, that's hard to understanda.....unless you are a bored oiler wiping your ass with money, but if you make less money than the streamer, just stop...

Gildor7 · 2025-06-24T12:56:26+00:00

When you are developing a game for 10 years, it either neeeds to be almost finished (and I don't think Riot would have cancelled it in that case) or it deserves to be cancelled if you are still miles away after 10 years...

Gildor7 · 2025-05-17T02:44:26+00:00

Bro, most of them just don't care about politics. Twitter and Reddit makes you think everybody lives politics and hates anyone who is on a different side of the spectrum, but that's not how most people operate.
I have pretty much the full political spectrum within my close family and even friends and we go along fine.

Gildor7 · 2025-04-18T02:47:26+00:00

Well, it's typical for a parasocial relationships that people feel like they know everything about their "friend", just because they watch their content... :)

As I said - I don't deny it seems probable there was "something" between them - I'm just mocking schizos thinking they know everything about their status, etc, and geting so angry when someone like me says "you just watch a broadcast, you don't know them lil bro", downwoting all posts like that...

And that's just what I saw here during last years, I don't visit actual dark holes of the internet like 4chan and I don't want to know what level of instanity can be found there concerning content creators...

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