
ĭenino quickly became one of the most popular livestreamers in the world focusing primarily on the IRL genre using a mobile broadcasting rig of his own design. Denino admits that it is nearly impossible to hide anything from the "Purple Army". His community is largely based around his sizeable Discord community and his Reddit subreddit /r/Ice_Poseidon which was initially placed under "quarantine" by Reddit, and subsequently banned in October 2019 along with its community-run sister Subreddit /r/Ice_Poseidon2. ĭenino's fanbase is controversial, with some describing the community as 'toxic' due to their frequent use of racial and sexual slurs, and harassment. YouTubeįollowing his ban from Twitch in spring 2017, Denino took to YouTube, taking most of his fans (the "Purple Army") with him, a rarity for streamers. Some members of the community demanded that Twitch undo the ban citing complaints that the Twitch terms of service were too vague and with Denino stating "when you look at the, there was no rules saying that you shouldn't leak your location". The decision to ban Ice Poseidon from Twitch sparked controversy with some believing his ban was unjustified, including Denino himself. While this was not the first time he had been swatted during a livestream it was the first on Twitch to lead to a permanent suspension. The incident made national news across the US as a hoax bomb threat had been called in by one of Denino's viewers under his name. He was banned from Twitch on April 28, 2017, after being swatted on American Airlines Flight 458 in Phoenix, where police officers removed Denino and another person. He frequently traveled around the country IRL streaming, averaging ten to thirty thousand concurrent viewers. During the ban, Denino decided to move to California to pursue his Twitch career full-time.

This was his third ban on the platform, this time resulting in a 45-day ban. Denino was banned during the section's launch day because he revealed a phone number on stream. In late December 2016, Twitch announced the launch of the IRL section, allowing Denino to stream without the involvement of gaming for the first time. He moved into streaming IRL, beginning by streaming himself playing Pokémon Go.

ICE POSEIDON TWITTER GENERATOR
He rose to prominence for his Old School RuneScape streams in 2015 playing under the pseudonym "Ice Poseidon", which he created using a random name generator when he was twelve years old.

I believe everyone here knows that not all parasocial relationships are bad but in regards to your posts specifically, they do fall under toxic parasocialism. He is just some dude in his early 20s living in florida and making numbers playing videos games. Dream is not a political figure or social justice activist. Its toxic and unhealthy to put such high expectations on someone like that and ask them to stop such a big and serious issue such as human trafficking. Specifically with your post in particular. as much as its unreasonable to categorize them all as toxic and unhealthy, its as much unreasonable to categorize them all as positive and healthy when they're all not. what a lot of people don't understand is that parasocial relationships aren't a monolith.

I feel like there is a real judgement when it comes to unhealthy ones. While I do agree to an extent nowadays people have beat the word parasocial into the ground and now its just been synonymous with "someone who is a fan of and has enjoyment watching and positively interacting with a youtuber I don't like".
