TRASH TALK COMMUNICATION ON STREAMERS IN GAME CALL OF DUTY: WARZONE

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