Who is Fran? Fran was a Twitch streamer who gained notoriety primarily as an Overwatch player. Her channel has 251,597 followers.

In the meantime, however, she is no longer active on the platform. According to the Twitch schedule, Fran had last streamed at the end of 2021. Lately, she has become a topic of discussion in the community not so much because of her Overwatch gameplay, but because of her statements on the topic of NFTs. Time and time again, she talked about NFTs, which led to discussions among her statements. You can find out what NFTs are here.

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That was the NFT drama about Fran

The whole NFT drama went on and on according to the same principle:

• Fran released a statement on NFTs
• Many negative reactions and discussions follow
• Fran justified himself
• Reaped criticism for it again

For example, this post caused discussion on January 22, 2022:

Tweet translation: “Do Overwatch fans who hate NFTs know that the No. 1 NFT in trade volume right now is being done by people on the Overwatch team?”

That didn’t go over too well. Again, Fran tried to rectify the situation with a Tweet to the rescue, writing that the tweet was intended to show the hypocrisy of OW fans who would harass OW people involved with NFTs.

This was also met with mostly negative responses: For example, users @SFSEgo and @alka_seltzer799 replied, “Ok, but did you remember that we don’t like anyone involved with NFTs?” and “Ok, now I’m going to harass people on the Overwatch team involved with NFTs too. Thanks for the motivation!”

Then, on January 25, 2022, Fran released a long statement on TwitLonger. In it, she stated that she had no intention of pitching NFTs to her fans.

Further, she apologized for quitting streaming without notice. She always felt she owed her fans something when streaming due to comments she received when they had given money.

After several months, there were again discussions about Frans NFT’s

What fueled the discussions about Fran again? After a few months of things getting quieter around the NFT drama, Fran checked in on reddit on July 01, 2022.

She posted a statement explaining that she had not quit streaming because of NFTs and that trading NFTs had been a hobby on the side. Through her explanations, she hoped for a greater understanding of her point of view.

There was one passage that again prompted negative comments on Twitter. Among others, Fran wrote:

[…] I would like to preface this by saying that I believe 99% of NFTs are for scams and that I have never intentionally sold an NFT to a follower/viewer. As far as I know, since everything is done anonymously (listing, selling and buying NFTs). However, the fact that NFTs are a scam does not mean that they are not profitable […].

She went on to explain that she is now so good at NFT trading that she made more money in three months of NFTs than she did in her entire 5-year Overwatch streaming career.

At Twitter people again reacted mostly negatively when user @NyanSox reposted part of Fran’s text on the same day.

What did Twitter users say to Fran’s statement? The user @NyanSox already writes as the headline of the reblog that the text excerpt seems simple to him.

Fran admits that NFTs are scams, that they hurt people, and that it’s okay to hurt others because they should know better and Fran gains profit from it.

In the comments, many users comment negatively on this:

• @XhyliFPS: “Yeah, her statement struck me as kind of weird, good for her I guess?”
• @VegetaSasukeo: “She got greedy. She goes by trends. First she was on the OW bandwagon for years, and when she saw the trading card openings, she jumped on that bandwagon to make a quick buck, then the NFTs. I wonder how she sleeps at night knowing she profited from those trends as well as those people.”
• @syrasmineoce: “Oh. I always thought she was cool (I wasn’t too involved in the Overwatch scene), but now I guess not. How awful.”

What was Fran’s reaction? In response, Fran stated on Twitter, what she meant by the statement “NFTs are scams”. Namely, that most of these NFT projects would not last very long and would then lose value again over time.

It seems Fran is talking out of her ass on the subject of NFTs. No sooner does she deliver a statement to improve her situation than some use the words against her again.

How did Fran fare with the negative reactions? In her statement on TwitLonger on January 25, the streamer went into detail and explained what was bothering her:

Streaming for me was not as easy as it may have seemed. I was harassed almost every single day since my franplayshalo days. It went from a creepy comment to pictures I absolutely did not want to see in my DMs […] The extreme loneliness and unhealthy habits I’ve developed from streaming have done a lot of damage. Don’t even get me started on the bullying. My entire self-esteem was dependent on likes and numbers. I wish I never had to experience that again.

Fran was generally not happy with her job as a streamer anymore and had some issues outside of the whole NFT thing.

The NFT story is not the first time Fran has faced negative comments and hate. Even though Fran won in an Overwatch tournament with her team, she was flamed.

What do you guys think of Fran’s NFT drama? Let us know in the comments.