People wait in line at booth for Twitch, the official Livestream Partner of E3 during the 2016 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) annual video game conference and show on June 14, 2016 (Getty) Twitch has filed a lawsuit against two alleged instigators of hate raids. Hate raids have been a high profile problem over the last
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Twitch streamer BiggusBennus is one of those affected by the changes (Twitter/@biggusbennus1) “It’s instantly made streaming on Twitch more stressful. This number is going to be at the back of my head every day for the next year – I know I’ll receive less money if I take any days off, go on holiday, or
Psyche / PleasantlyTwstd. Slowly but surely, Twitch is becoming more diverse but it’s still heavily dominated by cis white men. Where exactly does that leave female streamers? It’s fair to say that Twitch – along with social media in general – can be toxic for women. Between body-shaming, stalking, unfair bans, alleged sexualisation, being demonetised
Redvines, who originally created the fake donation emote. (Twitter) A Twitch streamer has been called out for using custom emotes to fake donations, later used to harass a trans streamer. Last month Twitch introduced custom animated emotes, of which partnered streamers can use five. However, partnered streamer Redvines took advantage of the new emotes to
Mason “mason” Venne. (Dreamhack) Twitch has banned streamer and former professional Dota 2 player Mason “mason” Venne for allegedly using a homophobic slur on stream. He was playing the popular Dota 2 and commented on a teammate’s item choice, saying “I think the Aghs is a pretty terrible choice.” “Aghs” here refers to the item
Rhiebelle / Dona Tarte. (Twitter / Instagram) Gamers Beat Cancer will be hosting their very first Dragbox UK charity fundraiser in April. Dragbox UK will be hosted by the charity on Twitch and feature a line-up of fabulous drag queens playing Jackbox Games to discover who is the fiercest of them all. The line-up includes
An Apple iPhone 11 smartphone with the Twitch video streaming app logo on screen. (Phil Barker/Future Publishing via Getty) Streaming platform Twitch has apologised after it faced backlash for using the alternative spelling “womxn” instead of “women”. The word “womxn” has come into more frequent use over the last decade, according to Dictionary.com, and is