I May Be a Virtual Youtuber, but I Still Go to Work

The official name of the training I conduct is "Handling Toxicity."

But despite its rather ordinary-sounding title, the training itself unfolds in a way that would make anyone worry about the members’ mental well-being.

Some might wonder, Why is this necessary when managers block all toxic chat messages anyway?

Well, no matter how closely a manager monitors chat, there are always people who slip through the filter.

And ambiguous messages are hard to block immediately—they require checking past chat history, and in that time, the streamer might have already read them.

And of course, the moment you read those kinds of messages, they spark a fire in your brain and send a sharp pain through the back of your head.

In situations like that, blocking the chat doesn’t really help.

That’s why this training acts as a kind of "vaccination."

I drop a single Tabasco-jalapeño-sized dose onto each of their lips and watch their reactions.

Looking back on the first-generation training session that took place about a year and a few months ago...

— Might as well leave and come back later, you’re just gonna lose anyway.

— Frugal meta? Just watching diamonds from a distance now?