Pretty much my title. Streamers, viewers and all in between, you will now get banned for using these terms. Does the community rebel or do we let big daddy whip us harder?

Lowkey man I really don’t see Twitch lasting longer than another 2 or 3 years unless something seriously changes.

What’s y’all’s thoughts?

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EDIT: Okay I did not expect this at all. Figured I’d get a few downvotes and people agreeing they should censor our vocabulary. I was dead wrong and it seems to be mixed feelings. Anyhow, the community has spoken.

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EDIT #2: Okay, once again WOW! I really didn’t expect this at all. This post was kind of meant as a joke. Like I stated in my first edit, I expected to be downvoted and didn’t think many would see this. With how popular this post has become I thought I’d give a little bit of reasoning as to why I and many others believe this is a huge problem.

I agree with everyone saying being rude is wrong. We shouldn’t be rude. The problem is we shouldn’t be dictated into being nice. At that point you’re not getting honest nice people, but instead you’re getting people forced to be a certain way or else.

The other reason this is a problem is because we want to know where big tech censorship ends? Something as simple as the word simp is now considered something that can be a bannable offense. What words get stripped from us next?

That’s the heart of the issue. If someone is complaining that these words are banned because they want to be rude, than shame on them. That said, it should be there freedom to decide what words they choose to use and it should be up to human decency to let them know they’re wrong, but they shouldn’t be dictated into being nice. Obviously there are much worse words that are banned for good reason but these words are taking things way to far.

Anyhow, thanks for the post recognition and letting people know that this is an issue none the less.

It's one of the most historic nights in Twitch and will absolutely change what is acceptable to talk about on the platform not to mention one of the most successful examples of grassroots outreach. I believe this will also encourage many more women to play video games and stream among many other things.

I honestly believe this is a primary reason why discoverability is so low on their platform.

Nobody wants to watch a 30 second ad for a new streamer that they’re not even sure they’re going to like. It’s fine that they have it.. but they really need to let you skip it after 5 seconds or so like YouTube Facebook ect.

Literally every other social media platform lets you skip an ad after a few seconds... I’m like 99% sure that if they either ditched the beginning ad or let you skip it, viewership numbers would almost double.

Honestly I’d even be fine if they stuck that 30 second ad after like 5 minutes of watching or something.. but DON’t put it at the start of a stream.. that’s PUSHING all your viewers away twitch! Isn’t the goal of your platform to KEEP people on the website?? It’s basic social media science.

I mean I’m a streamer on twitch myself .. but even when I’m browsing around looking for new people to watch.. I DON’T want to sit through a long ad to find someone who I might just stop watching after a few minutes.

And don’t tell me Twitch needs the revenue... it’s owned by amazon and Jeff Bezos has enough $$ to buy the moon. He can afford to let people skip ad after a few seconds smh. Especially since TWITCH is a fairly NEW platform, they’re in the stage of ACQUIRING customers, not turning a profit. I mean even YOUTUBE isn’t exactly super profitable at this point, they’re still in the stage of acquiring customers and keeping them on the platform.. but for some bizarre reason Twitch seems to want people to LEAVE the website at every chance.

And yes I know you can subscribe to skip the ads. The PRIMARY problem is discoverability.. nobody’s going to subscribe to someone they don’t know.. and even getting to the point of knowing them is an issue because of the long ad. It’s an endless cycle.

EDIT: please stop commenting.. I didn’t realize this would blow up and the notifications are getting annoying.

EDIT 2: plz stop giving me awards....

EDIT 3: I regret posting this... I won’t delete it because I think it’s important topic... but I just want you all to know that I don’t want your damn Karma and you can take your awards back....

For context: https://twitter.com/aureylian/status/1334964758932549632

Something like this should never happen. You're making a regression in a community that needs progressive changes and real help. This is nothing more than a symbolic gesture with no meaning.

Context matters. And in this case "Blind playthrough" was never used to exclude blind people from the community. It's a metaphor for having a first playthrough without knowing anything about the game itself. By removing "Blind playthrough" you're basically criminalizing context and figure of speech, which is absolutely ridiculous.

But to top this all of, and to show you why this gesture is disengenuous, Twitch website doesn't even have ARIA HTML tags for crying out loud. To give you a brief explanation ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications which are a set of attributes that define ways to make web content and web applications more accessible to people with disabilities.

So to sum it all up, this change is made to somehow not offend blind people while their website isn't even slightly optimized to even help blind people to navigate it?

And this is the core of the issue, instead of tackling real problems that actually affect blind people they're just throwing around some meaningless changes to paint themselves as "progressive" and how they "care" about all people. Give me a break.

EDIT:

To all of you wondering why all the fuss about something like this or if you're saying things like "language is just evolving" or "why not move to some more inclusive terms", that's not the point. Noone has an issue with the language evolving, or being inclusive.

What this is, is just lazy attempt at addressing the real problem. This is going to be shown as some grandiose move by Twitch to be more inclusive while in reality is anything but. The real move toward inclusivity of disabled people would be to make their platform easily accessible to them. But that is too much work, or they see it as a waste of time and/or money.

Not to mention how a move like this implies that using the term "Blind playthrough" was used to exclude blind people from the community or to somehow offend them, which is just ridiculous, and even malicious.

Also, and I can't believe I have to say something like this, but please don't go witch hunting. Don't attack the person who tweeted this. I've made this post to make a point and create a thread to have a discourse about the issue and not the person.

CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS AND ENABLE 2FA

A few hours ago, a 128GB data leak of Twitch was released online. This leak includes data such as "source code with comments for the website and various console/phone versions, references to an unreleased steam competitor, streamer payouts, encrypted passwords, etc."

From the source tweet thread:

http://Twitch.tv got leaked. Like, the entire website; Source code with comments for the website and various console/phone versions, refrences to an unreleased steam competitor, payouts, encrypted passwords that kinda thing. Might wana change your passwords. [1]

some madlad did post streamer revenue numbers tho incase you wana know how much bank they're making before taxes [2]

Grabbed Vapor, the codename for Amazon's Steam competitor. Seems to intigrate most of Twitch's features as well as a bunch of game specific support like fortnite and pubg. Also includes some Unity code for a game called Vapeworld, which I assume is some sort of VR chat thing. [3]

Some Vapeworld assets, including some 3d emotes with specular and albedo maps I don't have whatever version of unity installed that they used, so I'm limited in what assets i can get caps of with stuff like blener and renderdoc. There's custom unity plugins in here for devs too. [4]

From VideoGamesChronicle:

The leaked Twitch data reportedly includes:

• The entirety of Twitch’s source code with comment history “going back to its early beginnings”

• Creator payout reports from 2019

• Mobile, desktop and console Twitch clients

• Proprietary SDKs and internal AWS services used by Twitch

• “Every other property that Twitch owns” including IGDB and CurseForge

• An unreleased Steam competitor, codenamed Vapor, from Amazon Game Studios

• Twitch internal ‘red teaming’ tools (designed to improve security by having staff pretend to be hackers)

Some Twitter users have started making their way through the 125GB of information that has leaked, with one claiming that the torrent also includes encrypted passwords, and recommending that users enable two-factor authentication to be safe. [5]

UPDATE: One anonymous company source told VGC that the leaked Twitch data is legitimate, including the source code.

Internally, Twitch is aware of the breach, the source said, and it’s believed that the data was obtained as recently as Monday. [6]

From the quick research I can do, the leak data is easily discoverable. The biggest thing here that would apply to most people would be the leak of encrypted passwords. To be safe, I would recommend changing your password immediately.

From 2016 to mid 2017 I streamed LittleBigPlanet 3 and some variety content. Late 2017 and the start of 2018 I tried out some Super Mario Odyssey Speedrunning. For this period I had around an average of 4 viewers. In late 2018, I decided to put more effort into my stream to explore some new ideas, start a YouTube channel, etc. Over the course of 2019 and the start of this year I grew a YouTube channel to 550k+ subscribers, a Twitch Channel to 250k+ followers with a current concurrent viewership of 3000+ viewers, and a fantastic community around them. Ask me anything!

I'll be answering questions all day until this post is ~12 hours old ending at 8pm Pacific!

edit: Alright! It was a good 12 hours but I'm done for the day! I'll probably pop back in periodically through the week so if you think of any questions I haven't answered feel free to ask!

He had 2 viewers and i got talking to him for a bit and he seemed cool, so I followed and subbed (prime) and he was so excited and grateful that it made him tear up.

I'm used to watching large audience streamers where subs are so frequent that no one bats an eye anymore, but seeing someone react so genuinely really cheered me up.

Makes me want to find more smaller streamers.

*Edit I've had so many people reach out with their twitch accounts, I'm trying to stop by everyone and drop some support regardless of how small.

The VOD for the giveaway is still up on his channel, you can see that I won. It was announced on the stream and you can see his interaction with me after winning.

But when I messaged him about it after his stream, he refused to give it to me and decided to give it to his friend instead.

Does Twitch even intervene or do anything about these situations?

Edit 1: To the people asking about who the streamer is.. As much as I would love to say who it is; I don't want to start a witch hunt or give this person any kind of publicity (even if it's bad).

I'm just looking for advice and some of the comments have been very helpful so far.

Edit 2: I've read everyone's comments and I appreciate the feedback, suggestions, and support. A lot of people keep asking/telling me to expose who it is, but doing so would start a witch hunt, which is a violation of this reddit's rules.

I know where everyone is coming from and trust me, what you're saying means a lot to me.

I'm not going try and spearhead this as some kind of righteous cause because I just don't know enough about the situation but I think it is something worthy of discussion.

What exactly does Twitch base it's video game ban-list guidelines upon?

A games actual content or it's perceived first appearance?

If people are unaware of what I'm talking about there was a recent video submission via the video game developer Yandere Dev in which he discusses his games initial ban on twitch and his following experiences trying to start a discourse through official channels to find answers to rectify the issue.

I'm not going to link to the submission itself because that seems to be against the rules in this sub but if you're interested in the topic feel free to google/youtube or search reddit for the overall discussion.

There seems to be a great deal of subjective and bias selection going on within what is appropriate on twitch and what isn't, I could be entirely wrong but the fact that this is someone's passion project and lively hood that a great number of people are interested in that is being ignored, on one of the Internets largest viewing platforms to this day is fairly baffling.

my boyfriend recently started streaming himself play video games, we’re young so we don’t live together but i get the notification everytime he starts streaming and i like to just let it play while i do something. i love to watch him just be himself doing what he enjoys most. and he feels like he has someone watching, i’d like to see if i could watch it on other devices so he has more viewers, (ipad and laptop) but i don’t know how twitch works whatsoever so do i need to make another account for each device?

edit: i do it secretly because he never told me he was streaming, i found the account myself and just started watching him

I never thought much about what Twitch allowed/didn't allow until yesterday I noticed my 14 year old brother watching a Twitch stream where a girl was literally spread eagle with her private area pointed straight at the camera, which is completely against Twitch's own terms of service, while twerking, and simulating giving head sounds and licking motions, calling it "asmr". Besides the fact the entire stream, being viewed by over 20,000 people, most of whom are likely minors, is blatantly sexually suggestive, the channel is bombarbed repeatedly with links to the streamers Onlyfans account where she basically sells porn of herself to her mostly minor viewerbase.

And she's just one of an entire community who is suddenly doing this fad 'meta' as they call it on twitch of doing streams like this while clearly soliciting their own pornography. If I'm not mistaken it's obviously against most, if not all, state statutes to solicit porn to minors. So not only are these individual streamers liable, but twitch as an entity for clearly allowing it.

This is supposed to be a site where livestreamers can show off their daily lives, play video games, chat with each other, etc; it is NOT meant to be, in explicit terms of Twitch's own ToS, a sexual streaming service; yet they are allowing my 14 year old brother to view sexual content and be bombarbed by links to pornography. I cant wait til someone considers lawsuits against individual streamers and twitch itself - because this is unreal that this is being allowed and I'm wholeheartedly surprised I'm not the only one considering it.

just a nice story i felt like sharing. i posted it once but was silly and put my link in, now that i know the rules ill try my post again

So last night i was searching through 0 viewer rocket league streams. i found this guy who was down 4-0 and super salty about it. he was cussing and literally was about to forfit. but then he read my msgs of positivity. 'you got this! still 3 mins left! lots of game here buddy!' and he said sorry for being salty and that he was gunna try his best. he focused then scored! i hyped em up more and he was more happy. then his buddy scored twice in a row so i called em a monster and he joined in on the hype.

the ended up going into over time at 4-4 then won. we all cheered and celebrated then i dropped a follow. dude was really happy then had a positive stream that i sat in for over an hour.

really felt the impact of positivity, sometimes people just need kind words

EDIT: wow im astonished at the amount of peoples who cherish positivity as much as i do. i honestly expected this post to flop, since its one of my first. Y'all are amazing and i appreciate everyones kind words <3

They are playing you for your money.

Their nice looks and kind words after a donation are just to get you to donate more.

Donating money will not help you get closer to these women and start a relationship with them. If anything they will honestly just think of you as a sad lonely person who doesn't know how to go out and meet real people. Which, if you donate to a female streamer FOR THIS REASON, you are(unfortunate truth.) (I say "For this reason" because there are MANY female streamers that DONT do this. They deserve every penny they make!)

But that doesn't mean you can't turn it around! Go out for a walk in the park, hit up the library, hell, just walk around downtown. You will have the opportunity to talk to many women who are much more down to Earth and not out just to get your money like some of these Twitch females are.

One in particular, I will not name names(you already know who it is) has been found out to be married, even though she lies to her viewers and says she's single. She says she's single because she wants to give you hope that there is a chance you will be with her someday. It's all part of their plan to get you to donate money to them. And you're falling for it. IMO, it's okay for someone to hide their personal life, but the second you LIE to your viewers, the people supporting you, about it? That's wrong.

Stop it.

Stop.

Don't be a part of the problem. Be a part of the solution.

EDIT: I want to make sure everyone knows I am ONLY talking about streamers that literally do exactly this. I am NOT talking about streamers that DON'T do this. MORE streamers than not DON'T do this, and props to them for being chill and down to Earth! There are only a select few women who take advantage of their viewers. I'm just trying to inform those of you who donate to them that it's never going to happen!

I've been an avid Twitch viewer for over 5 years, having stuck with the site through thick and thin. However, now with mid-roll ads constantly interrupting streams, I've suddenly found myself having little to no interest in watching my favorite streamers.

Whenever I try watching a live broadcast, I've started to find myself constantly on edge over the idea that at virtually any moment a mid-roll ad could appear, completely interrupting whatever was happening on stream. As a result, I can no longer get invested in the streams that I normally watch, due to ads constantly taking me out of the experience.

Even if there is a stream that I want to watch, I'll more than likely just wait for the VOD, so that I can watch without interruption. However, even this isn't a perfect solution, for it comes with the hefty cost no longer being able to interact with either the streamer or chat.

Ultimately, this whole mid-roll ad situation has just resulted in me using the site a lot less than I used to, which is a real shame.

EDIT: Wow, this really blew up overnight. I wrote this while sleep-deprived at 5am. Glad to know I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Hey everyone!

As many of you may already be aware, a new bill has been passed by Congress that cracks down on DMCA Copyright claims for livestreams, with streamers potentially facing felony charges from livestreaming copyrighted content. Examples of this include new music, certain YouTube videos, or anime.

In order to help protect the Twitch community, I decided to quit my job in order to do something to help.

I made a hub called Tenami that seamlessly syncs any Crunchyroll, Netflix, or YouTube video directly to your Twitch stream for your audience to watch along. You can try it out here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1414930/Tenami/

Streamers can now watch whatever they want automatically in sync with viewers, without getting copyright strikes. Through Tenami, both the live streamer as well as video provider (i.e. Netflix) will be given viewership for the content.

As a streamer, you simply log into your Twitch account, select “Host Lobby” in the top right, and copy in the URL of the video you would like to watch.

Next, when viewers join your Twitch stream inside of the Tenami hub, both the content that you are currently watching as well as the stream itself will be displayed like this.

Tenami ensures that all viewers are watching the content legally from the source, and fully protects Twitch streamers from DMCA copyright claims – simply follow Step 4 of Twitch’s instructions for Watch Parties. In addition, Tenami also doubles as a Twitch viewer with integrated BetterTTV and FrankerFaceZ as well as a watch party hub for private viewings.

I have created a video demonstrating how to use Tenami, however please note that it is super cringy as I have never made a YouTube video before (link).

We have some awesome new features coming out, and I’d love to hear your feedback! Coming soon we will have HBO Max, Tenami Mobile, and support for Tenami YouTube VODs as well – allowing you to rewatch previously recorded reaction videos with full integration.

Please feel free to ask any questions and I will be happy to answer them. I hope that Tenami helps livestreaming communities thrive and brings the community closer together through watch anime/movies together online!

Edit:

Accidentally locked the thread by posting the example twitch stream, however It has since been unlocked!

https://twitter.com/Dansgaming/status/1319143565193248768

Simply unreal. How do you expect your partners and content creators to fix the problem if you won't even tell them where the problem is or assist them in finding it?

Hey everyone,

I want to share this post especially with my smaller streamer colleagues, because sometimes we get lost or confused in the grind.

Last week I was having a difficult time and questioned myself several times if it makes any sense to continue with streaming.. Thursday was the lowest I felt and wanted to delete all my accounts and shut the thing down but decided to sleep over it. Woke up the day after with a completely different mindset, like if my brain pushed the reset button overnight. I told myself I know why I started in the first place A) I would be playing games anyway B) I want to build a small family friendly community where everybody can be themselves and we can support each other.

It wasn’t until yesterday when I met a person in game who appreciated my content and ended up playing together for a while. The message I got after ending the stream was so nice that it made me emotional..

This reminded me that everything has its timing and you should stick to things you truly love (not only streaming). Don’t let things you cannot control, affect the things you can! 😊

Did you experience something similar? Would love to hear your stories to spread the positivity.

Don’t have a good day, have a GREAT day y’all!