I didn’t know whether to put this in here or tech, sorry lol.
Lmao they almost committed suicide…
Maybe they saw that Twitter didnt feel any change, and that Reddit is still confident after the backlash, and thought this is the time… but then they realized they arent as brave as their creators are angry already. I guess you can play with people’s hobbies, but not with their livelihood
I think its fine here too, twitch for the most part is a game streaming platform.
First I’ve read about this from a content creator I follow through Nitter. They were immediately talking with their content creator peers that this change kills almost all sponsor deals. The one I am following is doing test-streams to youtube, and they were half-joking about speeding up tests :D
But to get back to topic, this one has it in burned in banner form, but I think it is fine because they do it in a non-obtrusive way. I have twitch ads blocked for privacy reasons, so at least this is a way - however small it is - in which I can support them, with helping them to such deals by slightly increasing the view count.
They must have seen XQC get bought out by a competitor and realized that was likely going to keep happening if they didn’t let the creators have freedom.
Now we see if they lost community trust and walked back too late not to keep bleeding from this.
Twitch already has some very controverwial rules, like forcing content creators to play twitch ads at certain intervals, no matter the situation. I watched Esports finals for ~100k prizepools get an advertisement at critical moments just because the broadcaster forgot to play an ad before the final round starts.
Now your turn Reddit.