Videogame streamers find another way of connecting to audiences: Giving out personal advice


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 19 Sep 2018

Video streamer SheSnaps, aka Jessica, engages with her audience as she streams live from a room in her home in the Northwest suburbs on Monday, Aug. 27, 2018. Shesnaps specializes in the game Destiny and speaking frankly and personally about mental health issues. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

The Madden tournament shooting was a traumatic event for videogamers, casting the spectre of violent death over a formerly innocent setting. 

As they expressed grief and shock online, some headed to a website that seemed custom built to address their emotions: the Twitch channel of Chicago-area gamer SheSnaps. 

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