I got back to my desk. I did a couple of stretches before sitting down.

I moved my mouse to get my display out of sleep mode. When the screen lit up, I was assaulted by the flashing mess, that was the Twitch chat. Messages flew by faster than my framerate was able to handle.

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What the heck is going on?

When I moved the cursor to my streaming software I immediately spotted the error.

I did not in fact click the mute button earlier.

Instead I had clicked on the bar to adjust my mic sensitivity.

It was set at a 100 per cent.

I cut off the stream.

Fuck.