Alexandra Botez Accidentally Goes Live On Twitch

Popular Chess twitch streamer Alexandra Botez was left embarrassed after she accidentally went live on Twitch while making reaction faces for thumbnails. Alexandra Botez is an American-born Canadian chess player, commentator, Twitch streamer, and YouTuber. Alexandra and her younger sister Andrea created a twitch channel which now has over 700k followers on the platform. Recently, during Alexandra’s March 12th live broadcast, she was left stunned after she recorded reaction faces for her thumbnails for her YouTube channel.

In the video, she was seen to be doing faces from shock, to disgust, to confusion. Then after looking at her monitor, she quickly realizes that she had accidentally gone live on Twitch instead. She shouted, “Fuck!” before quickly ending the stream. Botez was only live for a total of 16 seconds before she realized her mistake, and, unlike Peterson, she left her livestream up for the time being. Alexandra posted this incident on her twitter stating; “I accidentally went live instead of recording thumbnails for YouTube”.

Some streamers responded as they pointed out their experiences of nearly doing the exact same thing, due to OBS having the “Start Streaming” and “Start Recording” options very close to each other. Also, the OBS community moderator Matt Gajownik has also replied to the tweet as he explained how streamers can avoid the same fate as Botez, simply by adjusting their settings to give an extra warning that they are about to go live. He wrote; “Highly recommend enabling Settings -> General -> ‘Show confirmation dialog when starting streams”.