"THATS SO FREAKIN' MESSED UP!": Viewers react to Twitch streamer getting threatened and assaulted by group of teens in NYC

A Twitch streamer who goes by the alias BrandonTheGr8 had a very bad experience recently after a group of teens accosted him in the streets of New York while he was IRL streaming and playing Pokémon GO. The group shot at him with a BB gun and followed him on scooters while threatening and abusing him in broad daylight.

The content creator also accused them of slapping his head and revealed that they only left him alone after he had entered a train station to find the police. A clip of their interaction was shared by the streamer on social media, with his posts on X and Reddit garnering thousands of views.

Many of the viewers expressed concern at the way the group of masked teens were behaving with BrandonTheGr8, and one X user exclaimed:

Brandon is a relatively small variety streamer on Twitch, with around 2.2K followers on the platform. While he does play several video games, such as Valorant and Call of Duty, on February 27, 2024, he went out into the streets of NYC to play some Pokémon GO.

People familiar with the game know that walking outside in the real world and catching Pokémon on their smartphones is its main basis. While BrandonTheGr8 was doing just that, a group of teens with masked faces approached him on the streets and started verbally harassing and threatening him.

The clip in question from Twitch has garnered over 20K views as of writing, and the streamer can be heard trying to walk away from the situation. However, two kids on scooters who belonged to the group kept following him and threatened him to go home.

BrandonTheGr8 also shared the minute-long clip on his X profile, with the following caption to give context about the attack:

With the clip garnering attention in the community, the streamer also shared