Bao Plans Halloween Stream Dressing Her Cats in Costumes
The independent Twitch streamer closed a five-hour chat and doomscroll stream by asking viewers which day they wanted it.
INDEPENDENT — Bao, an independent streamer on Twitch, said near the close of a Just Chatting stream that she is considering a Halloween broadcast in which she tries costumes on her cats, and asked viewers to say which day suited them. She thanked chat for doomscrolling with her and signed off after about five hours.
The stream opened with Bao working through a long run of subscription messages, thanking viewers by name for stretches of loyalty that ran to several years. She said she was glad to be back and that she could finally hear her alerts. Chat noticed a brow piercing on her model and a small Bao plushie on her microphone. Later she said she was unsure whether she wanted a piercing like it for real. Looking back on the thanks, she said that after six-plus years of streaming, seeing people return still left her feeling like an impostor.
“I was thinking of having a Halloween stream where I try on a bunch of costumes on my cats, so if you guys are interested in that, tell me what day you want me to stream.” — Bao, near the end of the stream
Her cats took over the stream several times. Early on she lifted one, Mitzi, toward the camera and let the other, Jojo, wander into view, with chat filling with praise for how fluffy they were. Around the three-hour mark she held Jojo up to greet viewers, talking to him as he drooled and nibbled at her, before he climbed onto the cat tree. Near the end he returned to rub his head on the microphone while she told him to say goodbye to chat.
Between the cat breaks, Bao scrolled TikTok and Reddit with chat. She spoke about Twitter, saying it had become full of bots and calling it a case of dead internet theory, and compared leaving it to a Rick and Morty episode. She praised the horror film Nope as one of her favorites, which drew agreement from chat, and she laughed hard at a run of short videos as chat spammed laughing emotes.
She said she had not decided on a date for the cat costume stream and would take suggestions from viewers.
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