“Lightning struck my phone.”
Requests claiming the viewer wasn’t exactly responsible are common, but this is a new one. Streamer Niki Nihachu has a lengthy list of banned viewers, many of whom couldn’t stop themselves from writing misogynistic and body-shaming comments in her chat. One of those commenters, who thought it would be appropriate to spam chat asking for sex, wrote in an unban request that lightning struck their phone. “Pls I promise I didn’t do it,” they begged.