Speedrunner Cheese Got Trolled During Live Stream For Mario 64 World Record

It was only fitting that this happened on the 1st April, but being trolled during a live stream for the Mario 64 world record speed run attempt, certainly had me laughing probably more than it should have done.

On what should have been your usual Twitch stream, with people for whatever reason finding enjoyment watching someone else play a game, and nothing exciting really taking place. Not this time. Cheese05 found out the hard way, what not to do and what not to announce if you’re going to need to concentrate.

Cheese was attempting to break the old record, and after some earlier attempts, his theoretical time if he performed each section to his best time, would have seen him complete the game in 1:37:39, bear in mind that nobody had previously broken the 1:40:00 mark, this would have been considered a resounding win. For reference, the old record had been 1:40:31, set 4 months ago by Puncayshun.

Everything had been going well until a follower named Squirr3l took advantage of the text-to-speech tool given to users who had donated a certain amount to Cheese. This was an earlier announcement Cheese probably regretted the moment the “Hi YouTube” spam started.

This went on for a little while, and Cheese to start with seemed annoyed but unphased by it, it was at this point my chuckling began; I’m easily amused. The run was still on track though, and he was likely to beat the world record unless he messed up severely. He was almost at the end by this point, so any mistakes could have been disastrous.

The chat section at this point was quite frankly hilarious, there were those who were just ignoring it and cheered Cheese on, and those who thought yelling at Squirr3l in caps would make him stop. They were wrong.

Cheese reached the final boss, and Squirr3l takes a slightly different approach, and I’m unable to type what he was actually spamming from this point on, but I’ll leave the clip for you below, and I have to say it’s NSFW.

He had finished not long after this clip of the live stream, and at this point, the chat section was filled with calls to ban this joker character from the channel, and sadly it seems he was. It seems a bit harsh, normally this type of speedrun doesn’t make the news, but once you add a little flavour to it, it becomes much more than a speedrun and I think the channel, Cheese and speedrunning record attempts in general, should be thanking Squirr3l for drawing some attention to the world of Speedrunning.

Cheese is now the world record holder for Mario 64 with a time of 1:40:05 and he has Squir3l to thank for getting extra attention and subscribers.

#freeSquirr3l

Do you watch Twitch streams or do you prefer to play the game for yourself? Do you find what happened funny, or would you ban Squirr3l too?