Is twitch still a thing? I don't think they have any significant upgrades for several years now...
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning
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#182I've been a Twitch user since its first year. I have a select few streamers I watch, and I spend more time on the platform when there are new releases for games I personally like. But, I have been very in-tune with Twitch culture and I know how disorganized it is when it comes to "big" streamers. However, my issue (and also disappointment) with Twitch right now is: - Softcore porn allowed on the platform. Literally,…
To countercomment: - Softcore porn (I would not call it porn at all, search online for softcore porn and you get something completely different). You don't have to watch it and I never see it in my feeds, you have to actively search for it to find it. So I'm wondering how you notice it for it to be a problem? Yes; I'm calling you out. - Ads: youtube has a LOT more ads, and a lot of twitch streamers don't do the ad pr…
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Moving all the thirst traps to a "hot tubs" channel was pretty innovative. https://www.pcgamer.com/twitch-addresses-hot-tub-streaming-c...
real innovation would have been to spin it off as a separate streaming website that allows paywalled subscription and creating an OF competitor
They deliberately don't want that.
Twitch is the top of the "marketing funnel" to onlyfans for a plethora of onlyfans streamers: https://i.imgur.com/jeOq6ek.png
OF spammers have also completely ruined NSFW reddit, because the simp mods do nothing about it.
Re: Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning
#184FWIW this coincides with a pretty important Amazon-internal announcement about return to office details. That, plus new kid? Yeah, I'd quit my job too.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve talked to my friends about this (we all have young children) and they had no idea softcore porn is prevalent on twitch. Not to mention actual adult stars regularly streaming. And before anybody replies “and whats wrong with that” blah blah, parents still think of twitch as a place where kids can watch minecraft. Twitch is playing with fire here.
Parents are devoid of all responsibility then? I don't have a stance on the Twitch/softporn thing, but "think of the kids" is used too often for evil these days.
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The comments and community feeling in Youtube streaming sucks. Ludwig who made the switch a year ago from Twitch to Youtube said that was his biggest nuisance with Youtube, and I agree. I stopped watching him because of it since there's more fun to be had on Twitch. Twitch is more like a bunch of monkeys which is fun and builds hype. Youtube is too serious and the chat is too slow for the streamer to properly interac…
Something about Twitch chat is magical, even though it is commonly just walls of copypasta, it feels like participating in a real, authentic audience. Often times it is more entertaining that the stream itself, just like on HN you would rush to the comments before even reading TFA to see what other people are saying. I can't quite pinpoint why YouTube doesn't have the same feeling though.
YouTube's UI doesn't facilitate it. YT chat is for textual chat, but clunky and staid, which is a very Google thing to implement.
Twitch chat is for emoting, especially in ways that please the streamer. Trying to actually chat with someone on an active Twitch channel is futile.
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> This is the event that still required everyone to wear a mask late 2022 only after Twitch was guilted into it. Oh no, they bowed to people whose livelihoods depend on staying healthy and realized that masks actually do help when everyone wears them.
>masks actually do help when everyone wears them. Could I get a citation for this please? Just about every source I've seen has since admitted that masks did absolutely nothing for the purposes for which they were advised to be used.
When you dig into those studies, they aren't that great either fwiw.
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5 ads every 1/2 hour? Stay away from tv you see 5 ads every 10 minutes.
Have you seen YouTube ads lately? When I stream a video to the "app" on my TV, I get 1 minute 30 seconds of ads at the beginning. Then about 1:20 into the video, I get 2 more 30 second ads. Then at 3:00 into the video, 2 more ads come on. Sometimes there are more ads than content. Ads come on literally less than 5 minute intervals, and the part that really drives me nuts is that it's always the same 2 ads over and ov…
This is what turned me off to YT Music. When they migrated users from Play Music I tried it once, it took 10 clicks (including the dismissal of two interstitial modal ads) to get to a song that I own, and I still had to wait through a minute of ads to listen to it. I can't remove the app from my phone, but I haven't opened it in the 2-1/2 years since.
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Sounds like Reddit. Perhaps one could ask the same question of that and get to the same root cause?
Conservatives where saying Netflix was doing this when they released that weird show about girls that were dressed up very suggestively on their platform. We probably went through the same for broadcast TV, cable, video stores, etc, etc...
The root cause I don't want to speculate short of getting banned from HN also for having opinions about when people should start having sex or be allowed to watch videos of adults having sex.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve talked to my friends about this (we all have young children) and they had no idea softcore porn is prevalent on twitch. Not to mention actual adult stars regularly streaming. And before anybody replies “and whats wrong with that” blah blah, parents still think of twitch as a place where kids can watch minecraft. Twitch is playing with fire here.
Parents are devoid of all responsibility then? I don't have a stance on the Twitch/softporn thing, but "think of the kids" is used too often for evil these days.
Of course we do! That's why we're talking to each other about it. Twitch risks a backlash from parents if adult content comes more prevalent on the site.