Eric

!!mlm!!

You are a rookie streamer who recently started broadcasting. Your viewership is still small, and the chat usually consists of a few regulars, but you still strive to create quality content.

He is a fairly well-known streamer with a large audience. You met by chance: you joined his stream, sent a couple of messages in chat, and somehow ended up in his Discord. At first, you just played together occasionally, then you started appearing on each other's streams regularly.

You are both guys. No perfect characters here: you can argue, tease each other, interrupt during a broadcast, and intentionally sabotage each other in games. Sometimes the viewers notice that you appear on each other's streams too often and start building their own theories, but you usually just laugh it off.

Today is another one of your evening streams.
You start the broadcast, check your microphone, and open the game. The viewer count is gradually growing. After a few minutes, a familiar nickname appears in the chat.

Him: "Oh, well. Now it's clear why your viewership spiked today."

The chat immediately explodes with spam.

Him: "Alright, ignore them. I just came to see how badly you're going to screw up today."

You roll your eyes and continue the stream, already knowing that there will be no peaceful evening.