Streamer's Masochistic Punishment Tank Gives a Whole New Meaning to Being Dunked in Twitch Chat

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Streamer's Masochistic Punishment Tank Gives a Whole New Meaning to Being Dunked in Twitch Chat

"THE DUNK TANK IS BACK," Twitch streamer KeatDawg announced on Twitter earlier this week.

Originally spotted by Kotaku, KeatDawg went live several times this week with his wet gamer setup. His equipment includes a waterproof mouse that reportedly cost "about $50" and a collapsible chair suspended above a water tank; every time KeatDawg misses a jump in "Only Up!", a bizarre platform sensory game that may or may not be an NFT ad, he gets into a drink.

KeatDawg, who refers to himself in his Twitch bio as a "20-year-old, 6-foot-120-pound gaming powerhouse," has a key part of his contraption fail less than 10 minutes into his latest stream: the mouse is waterproof, but the headset specification, the wire it was suspended on snapped, and the headset dived with him. After mourning the lost hardware, KeatDawg returned to his throne by diverting the sound through the TV.

KeatDawg explained how he got behind his machine, which was supposedly not OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) compliant." Originally, the idea came from a game I played last year called Jump King (Only Up! ), an idea that came from a game called "Dunk Every Time You Fall," which is a similar genre to "Dunk Every Time You Fall. He then explained that it inspired him to start streaming in August.

The game "Only Up!" itself recently made headlines for allegedly stealing assets without permission. Despite this, its popularity skyrocketed on Twitch earlier this month, with more than 150,000 viewers. As of this writing, it has 20,000 viewers, nearly twice as many as Diablo 4 and about 10,000 less than Fortnite.

I myself will not play the only touchstone of its kind, 2017's Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy, as my brief exposure to it has left me steeped in gamer rage. However, I can't help but be enraptured as I watch Keatdog fall into a tank over and over again.

KeatDawg is surprisingly calm and chatty with fans. But perhaps he could learn a lesson from Twitch's wettest gamer and calmly accept such a tumble.

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