Twitch streamer accidentally exposed donating 20 subs to himself mid-fart challenge
Zoil was 32 minutes into his 'no laughing during fart noises' challenge when chat caught him gifting himself 20 anonymous subs. The smile that followed reset everything.
Thirty-Two Minutes Down the Drain
Twitch streamer Zoil was deep into a genuinely unhinged personal challenge: sit through a full hour of looping fart noises and other sound effects without laughing or smiling. Simple in theory. Brutal in practice. And on his 15th attempt, he was doing pretty well, 32 minutes in, when he tried a small distraction technique to keep himself composed.
It backfired spectacularly.
According to Dexerto, part of Zoil’s screen was inadvertently visible to viewers, showing him in the process of anonymously gifting 20 subscriptions to his own channel. The window may have been small, but the internet has keen eyes. When the gift subs triggered an alert and Zoil cheerfully thanked “anonymous” on stream, chat lit up immediately to let him know exactly who that anonymous donor was.
The Smile That Cost Him Everything
The realization hit him in real time. He exclaimed “Yo, anonymous with 20 gifted. Thank you!” before his own chat explained the situation. The resulting expression on his face was, per Dexerto’s report, unmistakably a smile. That was all it took. Challenge reset. Attempt 15 was done.
“F*ck! I was trying to take my mind off it,” he said, slamming his fist on the keyboard. “I was trying so hard not to laugh.”
The clip was picked up and shared by the account ChumBucketDrama on July 30, and it spread quickly for obvious reasons. There is something perfectly absurd about a streamer being undone not by a particularly good fart sound, but by accidentally thanking himself for a gift he gave himself.
The Full Arc
To his credit, Zoil did not quit. After a short break, he got back into it, and by attempt 17 he finally cleared the hour. The fart noises lost. Zoil won. The sub-gifting detour was, in the end, just a weird and embarrassing chapter in what turned out to be a completed run.
Streaming challenges have taken on a life of their own as a content format. Dexerto notes that the category ranges from difficult gaming feats to extreme endurance stunts, including one streamer who attempted to stay awake for 12 days straight. Zoil’s fart-noise gauntlet sits comfortably in that tradition, something that sounds ridiculous in a sentence but becomes genuinely compelling to watch when someone is visibly suffering through it.
The accidental self-sub moment is the kind of thing that would be easy to feel bad about if not for the fact that it is, on balance, pretty harmless and very funny. Gifting yourself subs anonymously is an odd impulse, though one can understand reaching for almost anything mental when you have been listening to fart sounds for half an hour. It just turns out that particular coping mechanism came with a receipt.
Zoil cleared the challenge. The clip lives forever. That trade-off seems about right.
What was the challenge Zoil was attempting?
According to Dexerto, Zoil had to endure one full hour of nonstop fart noises and sound effects without laughing or smiling. If he broke, the timer reset.
How did Zoil get caught donating subs to himself?
A portion of his screen was still visible to viewers showing him purchasing 20 anonymous gifted subs. When he thanked 'anonymous' out loud, chat immediately told him what they had seen.
Did Zoil eventually complete the challenge?
Yes. As reported by Dexerto, Zoil completed the challenge after 17 total attempts.