Enna, I love you, but you’re being an idiot. Let the man criticize your friend. He wasn’t even being an asshole,
Also I like this account but man are the replies braindead a lot of times
Enna is my favourite in Ethyria but she can be a little...like that sometimes. On an unrelated note, I used to like Kyo on his own but after the Zaion incident I can't really see him the same way anymore - not that I don't want him to succeed, I just think he could use quite some character development.
EDIT: Though Hff201 is right about it being sent with money instead of a normal comment, which puts the streamer on the spot and makes things awkward.
I can see why people would agree or disagree with the sentiment here. On one hand a streamer who is heavily dependent on someone else won't have much of an identity of their own, and fans of one but not the other might tire of seeing someone they don't care for showing up all the time; on the other, from the clips I've seen they do seem to have a genuinely entertaining dynamic together so I imagine a lot of their fans want them to collaborate as often as possible.
My contention with the comment isn't so much what it's saying, but that it's sent as a superchat. Money being attached puts more pressure on the streamer to acknowledge it in the moment, and seeing it highlighted live can bring down the mood for other viewers who're enjoying the stream. It's more tactful to leave critical feedback as a comment on the VoD after the stream's over, so they can choose whether to take it into account and/or address it in their own time.
I didn't have anything to say during the discussion about "negativity" a while back, but this brought back something I've been thinking about.
One thing to keep in mind is that the people we dislike are often our oshis' colleagues and friends. E.g. ITT we have chumbuds who dislike Calli, teamates who dislike Silvervale, Nijifrens who dislike Uki or Kyo, etc. To say nothing of autistic RIEEEE'ing.
But this creates a dilemma for the streamer. Someone criticises you? You can tell yourself (rightly or wrongly) that they're not your fan. Someone who is your fan criticises your friend? Harder to reconcile.
This is fine.
Friendship isn't transitive. (tl;dr Your friends are not automatically friends with each other, and you don't automatically like all your friends' friends.) Fandom and parasocial relationships are even less so. But at the same time, we can't expect the streamers to like seeing criticism of their friends or approve of it. So - time and place. I agree that comment should have been a comment on the VOD rather than a superchat. And even in places that aren't the streamer's "territory", like here, there's being critical, and there's being a sperg.
C'est la vie.