League of Legends and hate speech: a corpus for comments in Twitch.tv

League of Legends (LOL) is the most popular game on PC, drawing 8 million concurrent players. A common activity of gamers, besides playing games, is to watch other players presenting tips and tricks. Streaming platforms allow some players to show gameplays and live games. Twitch.tv is the world´s leading live streaming platform. 

Considering that hate speech is a ubiquitous problem in online gaming, we collected  985,766 comments from five videos of the top 10  LOL streamers in Twitch.tv platform. 

The dataset is freely available in a single file, ensembling all videos/players; and divided by players as well. 

These comments are a rich data source for opinion mining, sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and hate speech detection (including sexism and racism).