Streamers That Leaked Personal Info Live On Stream

Streaming is a lucrative — if risky — method of content creation. On one hand, it removes all the nitty gritty of editing since it is essentially a live broadcast of a game session. On the other hand, it opens up streamers to the dark truth of the internet: Your mistakes are on display for everyone to see, and they've been laminated. If you say something on stream people find offensives, you can't edit that out. And, if you accidentally leak personal information, you could potentially destroy someone's else's livelihood, or maybe your own.

Most streamers keep such information a closely-guarded secret. On the rare occasions streamers do leak personal information, they might get lucky and only receive simple phone calls from fans who want to wish them luck. But the odds are more than good that disgruntled audience members will use that info for nefarious purposes. That's why most streamers are very careful with their sensitive data. The internet can be an unforgiving wasteland, and as you'll soon discover, there are plenty of trolls lurking about.

Here are a few examples of streamers who've accidentally shared things they shouldn't have online.

Oh, Tfue, you can't escape controversy, can you? You and Ninja have exchanged blows for who knows how long, and you even tried to sue your former team. You've also had the misfortune of accidentally leaking personal information on multiple occasions, and not all of it was yours.

One notable example of Tfue leaking info came during his first time playing Call of Duty: Warzone. To be fair, though, this mistake caught everyone by surprise. Tfue was setting up his game to ensure all the options were optimized for his play style when his email popped on the screen. It was not a good way to start his first day in Warzone, and it threw him off his game for the session. However, that was a mostly harmless example of what can happen when you leak personal info on-screen. The next one? Not so much.

Tfue's most recent leak gaffe (as of this writing) occurred during the Mr. Beast charity tournament. What was supposed to be a friendly stream where audiences watched Mr. Beast's channel for fun and goodwill was derailed when Tfue leaked Mr. Beast's phone number. Oh, and the code for the participant group chat. That's a big breach of trust, and Ninja verbally attacked Tfue for it.

It's one thing to leak your own information in a stream, but it's quite different to leak someone else's.

Some ideas don't sound bad until you try them out. Participating in the Running of the Bulls is one example, and another is putting Alexa within earshot of a livestream.

Asian Andy, a vlogger who streams his everyday life, decided to stream dying his hair. To add to the list of totally-not-good ideas, he let his viewers leave customized text-to-speech messages by donating money to him. Andy's audience quickly discovered they could trick the nearby Alexa device to do whatever they wanted. The stream devolved into voice-activated chaos.

At first, viewers jokingly made Alexa call Andy's mom, but then they moved to more malicious requests. Viewers asked Alexa to add all sorts of NSFW items to Andy's shopping list, as well as to call an Uber. Andy quickly lost his temper with the trolls, but they had one final ace up their sleeves. After waiting long enough, one audience member donated money to ask Alexa where Andy lived, and Alexa obliged.

Just goes to show you that text-to-speech donations and virtual assistants go together as well as open flames and dynamite.

Not all personal info leaks are accidental. Sometimes a streamer intentionally gives away their contact information just to see what happens.

As a joke, Loserfruit decided to use her phone number as her Fortnite username. Her idea could have easily backfired, and the joke would then have been on her. However, Loserfruit lucked out and had a fairly good experience.

Most of the people who called Loserfruit wished her luck, even though they seemed to have butterflies in their stomachs while talking to her. The number of people who called exceeded her capacity to respond, and most were just sent to the eternal limbo that is voicemail. In fact, so many fans called Loserfruit her phone glitched out and started hanging up on people.

In a surprise twist, though, one person who called Loserfruit teamed up with her for a Fortnite match, which was actually a boon for him since he didn't have a microphone. If he hadn't reached Loserfruit, he wouldn't have been able to communicate with the rest of the team.

Overall, Loserfruit's streaming plan was relatively troll-free. One person did call her to order some Big Macs, though.

Loserfruit deactivated the phone number after the stream, so people who missed the once-in-a-lifetime chance to talk to her might not ever get it again. Still, even though Loserfruit's idea didn't come back to bite her, it was the epitome of the phrase, "Don't try this at home, kids. I'm a trained professional."

Beer, lack of sleep, and Minecraft do not go well together, and they almost cost a streamer his credit card.

Late one night — or early one morning, depending on your perspective — Skeppy and his friend BadBoyHalo streamed a game of Minecraft. They were tired and drunk; nobody was thinking straight. One thing led to another, and their conversation turned to credit cards. BadBoyHalo boasted about his new credit card. Skeppy didn't believe a word that came out of BadBoyHalo's inebriated mouth. So, BadBoyHalo reached into his wallet, pulled out his card, and started reading off the numbers, assuming that nobody could use it since they didn't physically have the card.

Skeppy, being the more lucid of the two, prevented BadBoyHalo from rattling off more than three numbers and pleaded that he not list any more. Eventually, BadBoyHalo listened to reason and stopped trying to give away his credit card number, although he took quite a lot of convincing. BadBoyHalo was extremely drunk, after all.

On the bright side, BadBoyHalo was so drunk he gave away some numbers for an expired card. His actual credit card information was safe and sound despite his efforts to give it away.

Having the fastest fingers can win streamers esports matches. While Shroud's twitch reactions have served him well in tournaments, they also led to an unfortunate DDoS.

During his Cloud9 days, Shroud played a friendly match of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. He got a little overconfident and charged headlong into battle, which got him summarily slaughtered. However, his mouse and keyboard movements didn't quite catch up with his sudden death, and he accidentally minimized the game and displayed his IP. While Shroud was able to close the tab that showed his IP almost as quickly as he died, the damage had already been done.

Shortly after Shroud reentered the match, the game started to stutter and buckle. The CS:GO server got slower and slower, until it finally threw its hands up in defeat and left for lunch. Everyone, including Shroud, ran as fast as they could but got nowhere fast — literally. The DDoS attackers had won. Shroud and his teammates were frustrated, but they still managed to laugh the event off and have a good time.

One of a VPN's biggest selling points is anonymity. Nobody wants their personal information and browsing history leaked or sold to the highest bidder, so many people shell out cash to protect themselves online. That idea is all well and good, but it only works when you aren't a streamer who shows off your browser history to viewers — even when you don't mean to.

Parker "TisParker" Edwards did not start the new year on the right foot. During a Twitch broadcast on Jan. 19, 2020, he took a quick break to clean his glasses and grab a drink. However, TisParker didn't realize he had accidentally left his browser search history up for his audience. Most of his past searches were benign, such as "acrylic painting on glass" and "phineas and ferb" — but then there was the top search: "can you have s*x in your car without breaking the law."

Thankfully, TisParker quickly noticed his mistake when viewers sent messages such as "Search history, Parker," and he laughed it off. This gaffe was a far cry from accidentally leaking your credit card or social security numbers, but the less audiences know about a streamer's potentially illegal car-related dreams, the better.

Let's face it: no one wants their personal conversations to be shown off to everyone. Unfortunately, Mizkif was one of the not-so-lucky few to have done just that.

In 2021, Mizkif was streaming with Jschlatt and showing his fellow OTK member messages from an over-the-top fan that Miz had accidentally followed on social media. When he was done showing off the messages, Mizkif closed the tab without thinking — which led to him showing off the main message page on his Twitter account to all of his viewers.

After immediately face-planting and screaming, Mizkif announced that there wasn't anything juicy that could be leaked from this. However, fans were quick to point out a message he sent to quqco, a fellow streamer. His message was harmless but meme-able: "Let's just make good memories..."

Others have noticed messages to other popular content creators, including Idubbbz, scarra, and GarretLA. While the leak didn't let anything too important out to the public, it was pretty funny to see Mizkif's initial reaction.

Streamers QTCinderella and Ludwig have been dating for quite some time. However, the two didn't really get the chance to announce it to the public in the way they might have hoped — because QTCinderella accidentally leaked it while streaming.

While no one knew that the two were officially dating, they still talked as friends on stream. During one stream in which the two were having a conversation, QTCinderella made a joke about arguing with Ludwig to get him to continue talking to her, and Ludwig hung up the Discord call. When he did this, Discord popped up on QT's computer, which displayed some past messages between the two.

In the Discord messages, fans could see that Ludwig had shared one of his videos with QT and she'd replied with "it's so good babe." QTCinderella started laughing and seemed to be at a loss for words when she ended her stream.

MrBeast is known for his big stunt video, many of which involve him spending or raising large amounts of money. But in the video where MrBeast donated $50,000 to Ninja, MrBeast accidentally dropped his address in the sponsorship section of the video.

While telling viewers about Honey, a popular internet extension that scans for coupons before checking out of an online site, MrBeast gave a rundown of how the extension works. At this point in the video, the content creator showed his cart to viewrs and actually displayed his delivery address as well.

It didn't look like some promotional or forwarding address, either. There's no PO Box number, and it's fairly common knowledge among fans that MrBeast lives in North Carolina (per NDTV), just like the address seen on-screen. Whatever the case, MrBeast didn't acknowledge the leaked address — which may have been the best reaction he could've had.

Of course, not all leaks are accidental, and YouTuber Lachlan actually purposefully leaked his phone number while playing "Fortnite." In fact, he changed his screen name to his phone number to see what people would do. Not surprisingly, many people actually called him up.

The first person who called him opened their chat with "you killed me, man," and then proceeded to "coach" Lachlan on "Fortnite" over the phone. The second player to call him actually recognized Lachlan's voice, and the player's friend was also on the line. Both were huge fans of Lachlan and were pretty excited to suddenly find themselves on his channel. In fact, the two ended up calling Lachlan back later on.

Lachlan explained that he had hoped more people would call and rage at him, but most people ended up recognizing his voice. In fact, he found one fan that had been watching him for longer than he'd been playing "Fortnite." This wasn't quite the reaction that Lachlan expected, but it was heartwarming nonetheless.