Abstract:
The study discussed about the trash talk communication on streamers in game
Call of Duty: Warzone. The objectives of this study were : (1) to find out the
factors of using trash talk in game streamers Call of Duty: Warzone. and (2) to
find out what are the impacts on viewers when the streamer using trash talk. The
source of the data was obtained from YouTube streamer Bobbypoofgaming and
DrDisRespect channel. The data was taken from 2 videos, one video from
Bobbypoofgaming channel with a duration of 11 minutes 35 seconds and
watched by 475 viewers, and one from DrDisRespect channel with a duration of
12 minutes 03 seconds and watched by 1.1k viewers. The techniques in analyzing
the data was using the theory of Sugiyono (2015), those are data reduction, data
presentation, and drawing conclusion. Then, there were found out that the most
of the factors that caused DrDisRespect and BobbyPoffGaming use trash talk
were internal factors caused by selfishness within them. And from the data it has
also been found that the impacts felt by viewers when watching video streamers
who use trash talk are positive impact and negative impact
