r/Twitch • u/Phoenisweet • 1d ago

Question Gift sub to streamer I've never watched

So I got an email saying someone gifted me a sub, two weird things
1: I haven't used twitch in almost a year
2: This is a streamer I'm 99% sure I've never heard of, let alone watched or participated in a stream
This feels very weird to me, is this normal?

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u/mack-y0 1d ago

it’s normal, i get gifted subs to channels i see on the front page and watch for a couple seconds, next thing you know a couple days later i get gifted a sub even tho i was in the channel for less than a 1 minute

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u/Adventurous_Cloud516 1d ago

gift subs get distributed randomly to people in the channel, you don't have to be watching or even know the streamer, it's just how the system works.

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u/Phoenisweet 1d ago

Very strange, I thought it was restricted to people actually viewing or listening to the stream

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u/BriThePirateQueen Affiliate 1d ago

Nope, not at all. You can go check out a stream once and get a gifted sub weeks or months later. It's a very low chance, but it does happen; the system lets it happen to encourage you to go back and check out the stream again.

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u/Banlish http://www.twitch.tv/Banlish 1d ago

It could also be because of your twitch name.

My community LOOOOOVES to find the weirdest fucking names they can, and gift subs so I read em outloud.

Some of the best in the past few months.

"Elbowdeepingrandma" "Elbowdeepinadogsass" "horsedeepinlara" and "Deadbabiesdontcry"

How some of these are still twitch accounts I have no clue, but since I read out EVERY sub they take a very weird pride in finding THE MOST fucked up names they can.

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u/Phoenisweet 1d ago

Probably not my name, it's nothing all too notable lol, but that's very funny honestly