u/HerozYT

Hi,
So I’m a developer and one of my favourite things to do is to code cool things on Minecraft and then play them with others. I did this a lot throughout my years but in the last 7 or so years I focused entirely on becoming a capable developer and wasn’t on social media much.
So today in 2026 I had finished coding my new Minecraft gamemode, God damn Mario Kart in MINECRAFT! (Can't showcase trailer due to subreddit rules)

So after I made it I was eager to play it with people, there's no downloads, no passwords to put in, nothing, just Minecraft. So I went to twitch and searched for low viewer streamers who might read chat, I make a good amount from development so I was thinking of offering streamers 10-50$ to hop on my server for a little bit. The chat went something along the lines of "Hey I'll donate 30 if you check out my minecraft server, interested"?
Now keep in mind, the last time I used twitch was back in 2017, this was perfectly acceptable and if people didn't want to they'd just go "Not interested sorry mate" and I'd move on.
Instead I was met with the most rude and toxic environment ever, I got instantly booted from chat so many times I can't even count it, I even went and contacted the streamers in discord asking why and many responded with "I'm not interested in your scam". With one guy saying "F**k off, you must think I'm dumb to fall for that, get out of my chat"
Brother ?? I'm giving YOU THE MONEY FIRST. I don't know what happened in these last few years to cause this streamer epidemic of people instantly becoming cautious but I feel like this is quite ridiculous man. Once again back in 2017 I did this and everything went smoothly. The only thing I can think of is that there was a massive wave of scam bots flooding chats with fake partnerships to cause this, because at this point it's like they have PTSD over proposition messages.
Please someone enlighten me on why this has become twitch culture. I was genuinely just a developer trying to see if people liked my work and basically paying them to review it, lol.

Edit: After review of the comments and watching the streamers who commented. I've realized that the common denominator is the streamers being old, 30+. They obviously aren't of the technology generation and don't really understand anything about how Minecraft or servers work. I'm essentially trying to explain technology to a boomer. That explains why their brain malfunctions and they resort to "boot him off".

After posting here for a few days I’ve noticed something, a lot of people are traction boosting.

They are either coordinated with a friend group, or they have a server where they offer rewards for commenting positively on their r/MinecraftServer’s server advertisement.

Now, I don’t see a rule against that, so that’s not the issue, the issue is that I just observed several arguments about this very issue and the people involved become so upset at being called out that they rally those people together to downvote the commenter, and then say “It’s just our playerbase, we don’t know what you’re talking about”. Brother, it’s the same 4 fresh Reddit accounts. You can stop lying, you’re not fooling us.

Like I said, it’s not against the rules, just own up to it.

And then in retaliation I’ve seen a few of them say “I hope one day you can find your own playerbase”. Your server isn’t special, you own a generic SMP with a few plugins off spigot.org. I spent 200 hours coding both CSGO and Mario Kart in Vanilla Minecraft as a plugin and put it on my server for people to enjoy, so please, stop trying to lecture actual server owners on how to build a playerbase.

Final notes, just be honest, the truth will set you free.