Some backgound: I was trying to figure out why my view's queryset doesn't get filtered by user. I found out that after this line: https://github.com/pennlabs/django-rest-live/blob/572689fa46d473c23ff834bf19ab9876f7dc377c/rest_live/consumers.py#L116 view.request.user is AnonymousUser, but self.scope.get("user") is the correct user. When I changed this line: https://github.com/pennlabs/django-rest-live/blob/master/rest_live/mixins.py#L84 to: `base_request._user = scope.get("user", None)` the bug was gone. This was the line that made me try the change above: https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/blob/master/rest_framework/request.py#L225 My PR: https://github.com/pennlabs/django-rest-live/pull/22