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Gaming Slang
stream sniper
· noun · gaming
A player who joins a streamer's lobby just to hunt them on camera.
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Someone watching a live stream and using what they see — the streamer's position, loadout, rotation — to find and kill them in-game. Cheating in spirit if not always in code.
“Third time this game I've died to the same guy, that's a stream sniper for sure.”
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To stream snipe is to exploit a broadcaster's own feed against them. Big streamers run delays specifically to stop it.
“He put the stream on a five-minute delay so the stream snipers can't track him.”
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stream sniper In A Sentence
Third time this game I've died to the same guy, that's a stream sniper for sure.
He put the stream on a five-minute delay so the stream snipers can't track him.
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People Also Ask
Is stream sniping against the rules?
Most games treat it as a bannable offence if you can prove it, since the snipe is using outside info. The hard part is proving it — which is why streamers lean on stream delay instead.
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