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Mass Wave Of Twitch Bans Hits Arab Streamers Following 'Habibi' Ratings At TwitchCon
22.10.2024
Streaming platform Twitch has banned several high-profile Arab streamers for a panel that took place at TwitchCon last month. The banned streamers include CapriSunnPapi, Fr0gan, Raffoulticket, DenimsTV, and Vio, all of whom took part in a live-streamed panel during day two of TwitchCon San Diego...
Twitch Streamer Asmongold Banned After Racist Rant About Palestinians
15.10.2024
Twitch streamer and famous YouTuber Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt has had his zackrawrr account banned after a racist rant about Muslims and Palestinians killed in Gaza went viral on social media. “My bad,” he shared on X (formerly Twitter) following an online backlash. “Looking back on it, I was way...
Twitch Streamer Will Neff On BFF Hasan Piker, The Binding Of Issac, And Long Island
1.10.2024
TwitchCon 2024 was a total whirlwind. During the three-day-long convention for the streaming platform, I saw drag performances, fake debates, wild cosplays, and a Chevron installation. I brushed elbows with big Twitch streamers like Hasan Piker, Caroline Kwan, JuiceBoxx, Deere, and more—all while...
Twitch Is Transforming Into A Home For Political Commentary And Caroline Kwan Is Leading The Charge
27.9.2024
Caroline Kwan is tired, but you can’t tell. The political fundraiser turned actor turned Twitch streamer is sitting across from me in a TwitchCon meeting room on the last day of the convention, wearing a pink boilersuit and sneakers, her hair pulled back off her face, looking clear-eyed and alert....
Twitch Streamers Are Playing Games On Boobs And Butts
18.3.2024
There’s a new way to watch broadcasts on Twitch, and it’s not just pulling up a livestream on your monitor or TV and calling it a day. No, actually it’s a sort of Inception situation, where you’re now watching something like Fortnite projected onto a green screen of either boobs or butts. If that...
The Funniest Twitch Streamers You Should Watch Immediately
17.11.2023
These days, it’s not easy to stand out on Twitch, the wildly popular game streaming platform. As of writing, there’s more than 7 million streamers who use the service to share live looks at their gameplay, paint a new piece of art, or try to activate viewers’ autonomous sensory meridian responses...
Kids Are Attending Pro-Palestinian Protests In This Popular Game
24.10.2023
In the midst of the ongoing escalation between Israel and Palestine, gamers who can’t attend protests in real life are turning to digital spaces to show their support for those suffering as a result of the conflict. The latest venue? The ultra-popular tween hit Roblox.Read more
Devolver Digital Just Set A Precedent More Studios Should Follow
19.10.2023
Occasionally, in times of crisis, gaming studios and publishers have worked to raise funds for people in dire need of humanitarian aid. Last year, for instance, Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red contributed to a fund for victims of the war in Ukraine, and Fortnite publisher Epic Games...
Twitch Star Hasan Piker Raises A Huge Amount Of Money For Palestine
17.10.2023
Twitch streamer Hasan “Hasanabi” Piker often gets hate from detractors who claim that there’s an inherent hypocrisy between his own accumulation of wealth and his constant advocacy for workers and disenfranchised communities, despite the fact that he routinely walks the walk in addition to talking...
Indonesia's Financial Services Authority Appoints Hasan Fawzi as Head of Fintech and Crypto Oversight
14.7.2023
Indonesian financial services watchdog appointed Hasan Fawzi, a former Indonesia Stock Exchange executive, as the head of fintech and digital assets oversight and innovation.
Fawzi has served as the Director at Indonesia Bond Pricing Agency (IBPA) since 2008, which is a licensed securities...
Twitch Streamers’ Best And Weirdest Unban Requests
10.7.2023
To succeed as a Twitch streamer, you need to have a robust community that’s hyper-engaged with your content. Huge streamers like Pokimane, xQc, and Hasan Piker obtained millions of devoted followers by cultivating their streams to feel like a destination you’d want to visit and hang around in—hence...
Popular Former Fortnite Pro Tfue Retires From Twitch At 25
20.6.2023
Turner “Tfue” Tenney, a former Fortnite pro and ex-Faze Clan member who courted controversy after controversy during his time creating content online, announced his decision to retire from livestreaming at the age of 25.Read more
Twitch Streamer Hasan Piker Trolled By Game Awards Show Crasher
5.5.2023
Matan Even, the trolly kid who stealthed his way onto The Game Awards stage last December to shout out former U.S. president Bill Clinton, is back. This time, though, he crashed socialist Twitch streamer Hasan “Hasanabi” Piker’s May 4 livestream at the WGA writers’ strike picket line in Hollywood...
Twitch Star Hasan Thinks One Piece Is Socialist (And He’s Right)
3.4.2023
Did you know that political Twitch streamer Hasan Piker watches One Piece? If you aren’t a regular viewer of Piker’s Twitch or YouTube streams, you may not know that he’s been going through his first One Piece watch. And his takes are impeccable. Piker was recently on the YouTube podcast show Trash...
Twitch Star Hasan Gives $25k So Shelter Dogs Find Forever Families
21.3.2023
This weekend, Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker was trying to adopt a new dog. While he visited three Los Angeles based shelters, he decided to donate a total of $25,000 to help cover the adoption fees for other prospective dog owners.Read more
Get 72 Games For 30 Bucks In Syria-Turkey Relief Bundle
3.3.2023
Early last month, two powerful earthquakes struck Syria and Turkey, killing tens of thousands of people. Millions more have been rendered homeless in what has quickly become one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory. The stories emerging from the region are tragic and recovery efforts...
Hogwarts Legacy Is Dominating Twitch Right Now
8.2.2023
Hogwarts Legacy is officially out on Friday for current-gen consoles and later this year for last-gen consoles and the Nintendo Switch, but those who splurged on the Deluxe Edition got early access starting on February 7. And the game is already garnering a massive audience on Twitch. In fact,...
Twitch, YouTube Streamers Raise Big Funds For Syria-Turkey Earthquake Relief
7.2.2023
Twitch isn’t just a place where artificial intelligence festers and drama proliferates. It’s also a useful organizational platform for raising awareness around and funds for various global causes, which is exactly what a handful of big-name streamers, like Ben “CohhCarnage” Cassell and Hasan...
Indonesia targets launch of its national crypto exchange by June
3.2.2023
Indonesia's financial services regulator first expressed its intentions to establish a crypto exchange back in 2021
The Truth Behind Those Wild TikTok Videos Meant To Hack Your Attention
2.2.2023
If you spend any time on TikTok, you may have noticed that a certain kind of video collage is popping up all over your For You page. Maybe it has a clip of the adult cartoon Family Guy in there, or socialist Twitch streamer Hasan “Hasanabi” Piker talking about Black Lives Matter. But no matter...