You can feel the pain in his dih (🥀(🥀(🥀

There’s a streamer named Shanks. Not famous, not partnered, but somehow his stream always shows up in the sidebar late at night, even if you’re not following him. The thumbnail is never the same—sometimes it’s static, sometimes it’s a close-up of his eye, once it was just an empty room lit by a swinging lightbulb. People say he streams cursed games, but no one can name a single one, because the moment you try to describe them, your memory sort of... folds in on itself. He doesn’t talk much, except to repeat whatever you're saying in chat—but in reverse. You type “hey man,” and he says “nam yeh” in perfect monotone. His webcam quality is too good. Like, you can see pores and heatwaves good.

At exactly 3:33 a.m., something always happens. Once, he stood up, left frame, and didn’t return for seventeen minutes, but you could still hear footsteps circling the mic. Another time, the entire stream began lagging in real life—your lights flickered, your mouse delayed, and the air got heavy. There’s a theory that Shanks isn’t streaming a game at all, but streaming you. That the window you’re watching is actually a reversed version of your webcam feed, slowly learning your reactions.

That’s why people say never type “I see you” in his chat—because if you do, the stream title changes to “I See You Too.” And if it happens three times in one night, your screen goes black for exactly 6 minutes and 66 seconds. When it comes back, Shanks is sitting in a room that looks exactly like yours, whispering something you only recognize when you lie down to sleep. Whatever you do, don’t click the little heart to follow him. That heart beats.

The weirdest thing is, no one remembers following Shanks. One minute you’re doomscrolling, and the next, his stream is playing—no click, no alert, just there, full screen, eating up your peripherals like mold on a ceiling. He doesn’t ask for subs. He doesn’t need donations. The currency he wants isn’t tracked by Twitch—it’s attention, memory, maybe time. People in chat aren’t normal either. Some usernames just say “[REDACTED],” and their messages glitch in and out of languages you’ve never seen, or maybe invented.

One time, I tried to ban one of them and my keyboard started typing back. Not words—just teeth emojis, rows and rows of 🦷🦷🦷. And then there’s the closet incident. Everyone who watches long enough eventually hears knocking from their closet. It always starts faint—one knock per minute, increasing in tempo like some meat orchestra warming up. When you open it, there’s nothing. But when you close it again, the stream auto-pauses, and a message flashes: “Don’t ignore guests.” One viewer said they found a Polaroid of Shanks tucked under their pillow the next day.

Another said their reflection winked before they passed out for seven hours with no dreams. The worst are the challenges. Sometimes chat gets taken over by a poll—“Should we give him your voice? Your hands? Your spine?” It’s always rhetorical. The results never matter. Shanks chooses. He’ll stare directly into the camera and say, “Thank you for your offering,” and suddenly your hands feel like they’re full of static, or you start hearing your own voice narrating your movements three seconds late. The longer you watch, the more your home starts resembling his stream background. That cracked mug appears on your table. That same poster fades into your wall. One guy said his roommate started glitching—frame-skipping when he turned corners, eyes buffering when he blinked. No one believed him until his roommate uploaded a stream titled “Shanks IRL” that lasted exactly 8 minutes and ended with 999 viewers screaming in perfect sync before going dead silent.

There’s no VOD. There never is. But you feel like you watched it. You feel like you’re still watching it. And if you check your OBS, there’s now a hidden scene called “DO_NOT_SHOW_HIM_THIS.” If you click it, your webcam turns on, unprompted. And you don’t see yourself. You see Shanks. Staring. Mouth slightly open. As if he’s waiting for you to speak the line. You don’t know what the line is. But someday, you will. Because this isn’t just a stream anymore. It’s a mirror held too long. A connection that’s no longer virtual. You can’t unfollow Shanks. You’re the content now.

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Tejo is getting nerfed during toronto tourney, wanna see his bitchass abuse those salvos then. Every tejo/zeroskill merchant is finished during toronto.

Regardless how tough the season was for him, he's back to streaming instead of taking a vacation like shameless liths king.

Will be on for the PRX game, unless he sleeps through then its rip

Aged like milk, now EMEA competes for 3rd/4th place every LAN event.

1. Aspas (very nice facial hair and good harmony)
2. Verno
3. Beyn
4. pancada (sharpest jawline with hunter eyes)
5. Meiy

I think having icy on yoru on pearl is not it. Put him on KJ for pearl. Icy is not a bad player, just might be role issue for some map.

He will its quite late, he'll be up by then.

I also feel if FNS had yay they would've made kickoffs and toronto as well. Its like a gut feeling.

For those who watched YOU's finale, what are yall thoughts? I thought it was forced feminism ending.

Can yay do it? Nah I don't believe it. G2 been showing cracks, but they'll be in form against them. Calling it now!

fr it can't get better than this

true

This is actually crazy, reminds of the hans niemann cheating in chess using a vibrator accusation by Magnus.

Listen brother FNS is not next. I'm sorry to say he's finished. Should've sticked to watchpartying after the whole NRG 2023 run. When you think about it, ardiis indirectly Imploded the optic core then left. 😭

Shows you how finished the region is.

1. APAC
2. NA
3. EMEA

Before anyone knew about Verno as upcoming player. It was FNS in 2024 talking about Verno being a solid player. Saying how he wanted him on his team, and now 😭
He still proved himself to be a solid player in MIBR but man how you gonna hype up a player then get rid of him? Unc is tweakin out in all cylinders.

Happy for Verno making it to Toronto though!

fr

How good was TSM FTX Subroza?

This is typical T1 fashion, they always have a bumpy ride but make it some how. Kickoff as well they lost few matches and even in bangkok they came from loser bracket end up winning the entire thing.

bruh

T1 saving strats trust

Best player statwise is either TenZ (plumber era) or Yay's chamber stats. Yay's chamber stat is still used as benchmark for performance evaluation by analysts.

NA: FNS
EMEA: FNS
APAC: FNS

Duelist: FNS
Smoker: FNS
Initiator: FNS
Sentinel: FNS
Flex: FNS

Agreed, I haven't even seen reduxx play fully in tier 1. But I can already tell the amount of ego (not confidence) this guy has in tier 2. This guy ain't it.

demon1 eg 2023, before the fall off. Demon1 has similar style/aura to donk's. Sad what happened to him.

All I see is bunch of excuses, NRG itself has good ass players before the changes. Ethan (world champ), FNS (suppose to be the best IGL in NA history), s0m (consistent player in entire NRG's history), Mada (shows potential but gets held back cause of his shit igl), Verno (golden boy). So comparing MIBR and Fnc roster talent to NRG is irrelevant as both teams have world class talent/stacked on their teams. It comes down to IGL in both of these teams and FNS is the biggest fraud of them all. Boaster and Art are doing stellar job of managing their system.

When it comes to FNS not being on NRG 2024 and players like crashies and demon1 not performing. That has nothing to do with FNS's system as he wasn't there so I don't even know why are you mentioning this. As I am talking about FNS being the problem here not crashies/demon1.

The reason he's the problem is because he talks too much and can't back it up. That shows what kind of system he probably has on his team, where anything he says is the truth while undermining other players opinions and ideas on how to play rounds.

We're talking about FNS being the problem not the ORG. Every time he plays everything goes to shit. Remember when he came mid season and did the most diabolical choke of all time in history of valorant? 12-5 C9 choke.

If crashies was mid, how come in fnc he's all of sudden insane? Stop trying to defend your washed IGL who can't swim and has mechanics of diamond/ascendant player.

What does that even mean cursed org? The management system isn't bad on NRG. It comes down to the entire man running the scene at NRG which is FNS. Keep in mind Bonkar was the head coach and he probably wanted FNS benched/removed but ethan and s0m protested probably saying if FNS isn't play they won't either. So the ORG had to make a choice either keep Verno/Bonkar but lose 3 players which would add more work for them to find 3 more.

So if anyone is to blame it would be FNS.

sinatraa

All of a sudden crashies and verno ever since they left NRG/FNS system. They are doing well and will probably make it to Toronto or at least playoffs compared to NRG.
Same goes for Demon1, whose gonna play NRG in 2 days. I believe LEV will stomp NRG denying them playoffs.

Overall yeah FNS is getting dogged 3 way. Unc had it coming.

Paul Miller?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6ycLyAagIM

@ 9:00

I think Tdawg has nailed it on what really happened!

Feel bad for Mada, he getting caught between all this drama. Mada has insane potential thats waiting to be unleashed if the whole IGL/Teammates issue gets resolved.
In all honesty I told FNS once in his chat during his watchparty to retire that year after 12-5 choke against C9. He ignored it obviously but right now he's probably thinking to himself that he should've sticked to watchparty instead of playing.

Been saying this since kickoff, BOOM would demolish 99% of EMEA and NA teams in Tier 1. Apac is fr the most insane region right now.

Whenever I see aspas play and get those clips, I imagine this theme song playing for him!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CHSQlvY4Mk

Satire, is not to be taken seriously. Man you guys would've cried in COD lobbies or 2010s csgo lobbies. Stuff like this considered tip of the iceberg compared to what was being said back in the days.

"satirical" what do u don't understand about this word. Study it.

He's being satirical for those rainbow snowflakes who didn't understand

Overrated

"best region" nice try to ragebait

Hydrogen bomb (G2) versus Coughing Baby (NRG),

Free game for g2 easy 2-0

Fr, he's playing better than his optic days wtf... I'm shook

FNS is touching himself right now as we speak, wallahi we're cooked

If NRG loses to Furia I want a fucking insta retirement from FNS right now. Legit stop playing and come back to streaming/watchparty.

u forgot the goat ardiis

I don't think he ever comes back to pro play dih idk why