The community has finally had it with Twitch?
It's not been looking good for Twitch lately. #TwitchIsOverParty is trending again and a some of internet's favorite streamers are getting involved.
The popular steamer Alinity Divine, who was previously criticized for throwing her cat around on live stream, and making another one drink vodka, has received no ban or any repercussion from Twitch.
The complaint is that she and certain streamers get away with things others (mostly male and smaller streamers) have been banned for.
i might stop streaming on twitch, this is bullshit. i’m a girl myself and i think it’s unfair how they treat women and men differently. - tar
Fans and streamers have long complained about unfair treatment on Twitch.tv, an Amazon owned live streaming platform with over 15 million daily users (early 2019 estimate). Originally it was just a video game streaming site; they've expanded their categories to IRL (in real life) and Just Chatting streams, and some say this made it worse. Those categories are often dominated by 'boobie streamers', with their own rules, and Twitch seemingly enforcing different rules based on streamer's audience size, gender, and category.
2 years ago Myself & a Female twitch streamer got into a (Twitter) fight. Twitch punished me by removing my partnership & not paying me. The female had no punishment at all! 2 months later they made a rule that u can be banned for behavior outside of twitch. - Keemstar
A few hours ago Ninja made a statement about Twitch. Streaming from his new Mixer account, he accuses Twitch of still using his name and inactive channel to advertise various things including pornography. Image Evidence (nsfw)
Many people are talking about migrating to Mixer; another rising streaming platform that gained recent popularity with their purchase of Ninja, the most popular video game streamer and a big loss for Twitch.
Image by @AyoSlodenz & @my_chappie
Remember what Skylol said after Alinity called Pewdiepie's subscribers a bunch of 9 year olds? She said there's a double standard on how Twitch treats female streamers who act improperly and immodestly. That drama was almost a year ago now and Twitch still hasn't addressed the problem.
@coffeewithcrypto you might want to check out H3H3 podcast regarding that topic. They have visitied twitch gatherings with management and streamers in the past, and basically said that it was one big orgy with female streamers hooking up with management of Twitch.
Seeing that this issue is still not openly talked about by management, it seems like this could be one of the reasons why nothing is happening.
Thanks. Will do.
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