KanelJoseph Streamed Inside an Office Depot, Triggering a Quiet Fallout
During a live session, Twitch creator KanelJoseph brought his streaming setup into an American Office Depot location and began broadcasting from the store floor. The incident, later reported by Dexerto, resulted in the creator being escorted from the premises as store policy clashes with live content creation.
Witnesses noted that the streamer had approached a sales associate to preview how his equipment would appear on a store table. He reportedly received permission to set up his gear, but there was no explicit agreement to go on air. Shortly after he switched the camera on, a consultant approached and advised him to end the stream because it violated company policy.
According to accounts from the retailer, the salesman partially escalated the situation by informing security and allowing a brief window for the streamer to comply. KanelJoseph chose to continue the broadcast, and the consultant then contacted a staff member who terminated the stream and likely requested the streamer to leave. Details about whether security restraints were necessary or if any force was involved remain undisclosed, with the incident largely confined to firsthand retellings and post-event discussions.
As the channel has grown to around 60,000 subscribers and typically garners a viewership ranging from several hundred to a few thousand per broadcast, the episode has sparked conversation about the boundaries of live content in retail environments and how stores manage on-site streaming. The event adds to a broader narrative about policy enforcement for live creators who test the limits of public spaces for streaming purposes.
Prior moments on the platform have shown that live interactions can attract intense attention, both from viewers and from the venues involved. This episode at Office Depot serves as another example of the tension that can arise when real-time broadcasting meets specific corporate guidelines, and it highlights the ongoing debate about where creators should draw the line in public retail settings and how policies are interpreted and enforced in the moment.