While stardom is an amazing feeling when streaming as a regular on the world wide web, it can also come at its negatives. With social media, and especially focusing on interacting with the audience, every little tick/noise/distraction/accidental screen opening, can give away more personal information about you. With this personal information constantly being at risk on livestreams (as human error is probably at its highest live than in lets say something one could take the time to write and review), avid fans....or at least users who think they are "Friends with you personally" can take the time to find and stalk your location. This type of incident is not rare, and has happened to the likes of many streamers and major youtube hosts.
Pewdiepie, one of the biggest youtube channels right now had a good video talking about it, and the issue he has with these people, it is 2 minutes and a rather good video of how youtube stars feel. The Twitch Reddit also has had discussions about stalkers harassing the producers virtually, another big issue in the community. Whether it is physical or virtual, those producing run the risk of stalking, especially in the age of internet and access to information, the gathering of information (if you are rather easy-going with it) can be very easy in locating you. Even if you are at your best, you can check some government websites if you have a hunch where the house is, or location of the streamer (which they usually post on their profiles), and look through properties till you find the owner of the household (and with faces constantly being shown or names being given away, these scary occurrences can come true.
A lot of youtubers and streamers withold their faces so fans will not know who they look like (such as Youtubers "I Hate Everything", "Pyrocynical (Formerly until another youtuber showed his face without permission)", "GradeAUnderA", and many many MANY more. Some youtubers after a while may feel lax and do a "Face Reveal Special" after so many subscribers, but to the ones who try to prevent as much information from leaking as possible, really have to keep their information away from even the closest of friends on who they are online, unless they want to run the risk of leaks.
It is a dangerous world for youtubers/twitch users and is something that videos on demand and livestreaming don't tell you when one becomes popular enough.
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