Streamers Who 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.

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.

Minecraft streamer Skeppy managed to receive an invite to KEEMSTAR's "Minecraft" Mondays. Had all gone according to plan, he would have streamed the event with little to no problems. But he wanted to get rid of his character's cape. That's when things went south.

Skeppy scoured the settings menu in "Minecraft," searching for a solution. He looked through performance options, detail settings, and everything he could think of. While he finally solved his problem, he forgot that he was still streaming when he rejoined the server, and his stream displayed the server's IP address in big bold letters. Realizing he accidentally leaked the address to viewers, Skeppy screamed as loud as most streamers scream when they meet their first creeper.

Skeppy and his fellow streamer Doni Bobes were scared that this lapse in judgement would get them kicked from the server. After all, the "Minecraft" Monday server's IP address had been leaked to the unforgiving eyes of the internet, and anyone with half a mind could join it. However, for once in the history of the internet, nobody actually took advantage of the IP leak. No trolls joined, and nobody DDoSed the event. In an unprecedented turn of luck, an IP leak resulted in no problems.

Skeppy probably did more damage to his throat by screaming than he did to the server by leaking its IP address.

While most big-name streamers had their earnings leaked on Twitch in 2021, YouTube streamers were mostly safe. However, Valkyrae didn't hackers to reveal her income to the world — the YouTube streamer accidentally did it herself.

In one of her livestreams back in 2020, Valkyrae ended up clicking over to her YouTube analytics tab. This was captured by Twitter user TheLolHounds, who also pointed out several bits of information.

Valkyrae just leaked how much money she made on Youtube pic.twitter.com/gbYrg7h5ye

— TheLolHounds (@thelolhounds1) December 21, 2020

The page showed off a few interesting metrics, such as her video averages, but the section that stood out most was where it discussed her past 26 days of activity. With 2.6 million subscribers, 36.4 million views, and 8.4 million hours being watched, the YouTube megastar made $172k. Not only that, but it was down by 6% — a $10k difference. And keep in mind, she still had five days to go (and earn) in the month.

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.

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.

Video games are supposed to be for everyone, but there are some truly dedicated gamers out there who are working to ensure that "everyone" applies to animals, too. Mutekimaru Channel has been the go-to place to see betta fish gaming for several years now. With the right tech, buttons can be mapped to various parts of a fish tank, and the fish then activates buttons by swimming over them. The channel's fish have been working their way through the "Pokémon" franchise, but they've been taking their sweet time, only managing to beat "Pokémon Sapphire" after 3,195 hours.

The project was all fun and games until one particular betta apparently decided that "Pokémon" had finally gotten stale. It accidentally landed on the Nintendo Switch's homepage, and from there it pulled open the eShop. You can probably see where this is going. 

The rogue fish didn't just expose its owner's credit card info on stream; it also went on a bit of a shopping spree and changed its owner's account name to "ROWAWAWAWA." The one good thing about all this happening live is that Mutekimaru Channel was able to get a refund from Nintendo after explaining the situation. In the future, however, the betta fish are going to need more supervision when they play.

Most people who stream don't make very much money, but some big name streamers earn gobs of cash from subscriptions, ads, and sponsorship deals. While some content creators, like MrBeast, are incredibly open about how much money they make and turn that into part of their brand, plenty of others prefer to keep their income private. Reasons range from simple privacy concerns to worries about alienating their audiences. 

MortaL is an Indian streamer in his early twenties who's found massive success in recent years. His "PUBG" content started blowing up online in 2018, and his channel has grown non-stop. MortaL has always been protective of his income info, but in January 2022, he accidentally leaked his monthly earnings himself while playing "Rocket League." The screen showed that he'd made ₹6,19,430.89 (roughly $7,500 USD) in the previous 28 days. Luckily, MortaL's audience weren't bothered , and his subscriber count has since soared to over 7 million.

Summit1g has been in the streaming industry for years, so naturally there's been more than one time that his stream showed viewers things that weren't necessarily meant for them. Way back in 2016, Summit had his turn at a classic Twitch leak.

While playing "CS:GO," Summit took a second to breathe and decided to give some of his donors a shoutout. He went to pull up his donations to see who'd sent him money recently, but he didn't realize that he was sharing his screen the entire time. Fans gained some insight into Summit's finances, but he handled the situation casually and went right back to playing his game.

More recently, a wholly different kind of "leak" happened on Summit's channel. He and his friends were sailing through the ocean in "Sea of Thieves" when someone needed to step away from their computer for a moment. Unfortunately, Summit's teammate kept his headset on and mic live while he went to the bathroom. The entire internet got way too personal with Summit's team that day, but everyone also got a good laugh out of the accident.

Emiru and Mizkif have known each other for a long time, and their public friendship has made a number of fans wonder if they're secretly dating. There's no shortage of fan speculation threads on Reddit, and while some think the two of them are obviously together, others aren't quite so sure.

Either way, some leaked DMs seemed to prove that there's some growing tension between Emiru and Mizkif. While streaming, Emiru accidentally showed some of her messages with Mizkif. The DMs were on screen for less than a second, but that was more than enough time for viewers to snap a screenshot and start investigating. What made this particular leak stranger than usual is that fans noticed multiple Twitter accounts being banned shortly after sharing screenshots of the DMs. In the messages, Mizkif took a pretty aggressive stance against one of Emiru's recent streams.

Emiru ”accidently” leaks dms from Mizkif where he is complaining to her about how she acts on stream (Zoomed in screenshots in the comments)
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He accused Emiru of using sexualized content to try and farm more viewers and foster parasocial connections with her audience. Emiru insisted that she didn't view anything in her stream as being inappropriate, but apologized for upsetting Mizkif. Regardless of their intentions in this conversation, it's not something they intended for fans to see.

Anyone who regularly watches xQc knows why he's one of the most popular streamers in the industry. He's so well-versed in entertaining his audience that he manages to be hilarious even when he's making a terrible mistake. We've already seen how xQc has managed to leak his IP address to the internet on more than one occasion, but in 2023 he made an even sillier mistake that happens to make for one of the funniest Twitch clips to come from his channel in a while.

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It began with a classic mistake: xQc wasn't paying much attention to which part of his screen was being shared as he flipped through his different tabs while streaming. He happened to open his Twitter DMs, and even though they were only on screen for a second, the damage was done. xQc shrieked and closed the window — and had that been the end of it, disaster might have been avoided.

xQc's DMs didn't show much sensitive information, but his next sentence dropped a bombshell. "Dude, I thought I leaked my Kick thing," he said. He quickly realized what he'd just said and tried to move on, but the internet exploded with rumors about xQc moving his streaming over to Kick. Everyone knew the truth already, but it became official in June when xQc revealed to the New York Times that he'd signed a $100 million deal with the platform.

It's one thing to accidentally leak a fellow streamer's personal info, but the stakes get even higher when a mainstream celebrity is involved. In an episode of "Full Send Podcast," Mike Tyson came on to talk about the time that YouTube channel NELK leaked his phone number to tens of thousands of viewers online.

The NELK Boys were hosting a gambling stream on December 6, 2020, and Tyson was scheduled to make a guest appearance. NELK member Kyle Forgeard already had Tyson's number, and he pulled open his contacts to give the boxer a call, not realizing what he'd done. All of a sudden the entire internet knew Tyson's personal phone number.

On the podcast, Tyson explained that instead of following the obvious solution and changing his phone number, he had a different way of dealing with the problem. "I had to give my phone away to my assistant," Tyson said. His assistant was responsible for screening the overwhelming amount of calls and texts that began pouring through Tyson's phone on a daily basis. 

At one point, more than 8,000 calls came through on a single day, which really takes the phrase "ringing off the hook" to a whole new level. On the bright side, Tyson approached the whole thing with a sense of humor, and clearly he doesn't hold a grudge against Forgeard for making the mistake.