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Twitch Bans Using ‘Intimate’ Body Parts As Green Screens
27.3.2024
Amazon-owned livestreaming platform Twitch has disciplined content creators again. Just as a new meta began dominating the site earlier this month, in which streamers started playing games like Fortnite on green-screened boobs and butts, Twitch has updated its Terms of Service to strictly prohibit...
State of Play, Switch 2, And More Of The Week's Biggest Gaming News
3.2.2024
We’re starting to get a much clearer look at the 2024 gaming calendar, after the Xbox Developer Direct on January 18 and now Sony’s State of Play event on January 31. The Sony event gave us an in-depth look at Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding sequel, On The Beach, and boy was there a lot going on....
Pokimane Leaves Twitch After A Decade With The Streaming Platform
30.1.2024
One of Twitch’s most popular ladies won’t be streaming on the platform where she first became a star anymore. Calling it “the end of an era, Imane “Pokimane” Anys announced her departure from the Amazon-owned site in an X/Twitter post on January 30. Accompanying the tweet was an official...
The Pokimane Cookie Apology Tour Has Officially Begun
20.11.2023
Following some intense controversy surrounding her new snack brand, popular Twitch streamer Pokimane has apologized for an insensitive comment she made to a “rude chatter” during a November 18 livestream.Read more
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...
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...
Pokimane Says Moving From Twitch To Kick Isn't Worth Compromising Morals, Is 'Cringe'
22.6.2023
Imane “Pokimane” Anys, would never stream on rising platform Kick, which already lured big names xQc and Amouranth away from Twitch with high profile contracts. Read more
Twitch Streamer’s Car Gets Torched By Obsessed Viewer Who Drove 700 Miles
14.6.2023
A Twitch streamer has come forward with a traumatizing experience of how an obsessive fan—if you can even call him that—drove 700 miles to torch her car.Read more
Big-Name Twitch Streamer Amouranth Got Banned Again For Some Reason
4.5.2023
Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, one of Twitch’s top-performing and most popular female streamers, has been yeeted off the platform. She was hit with what appears to be a temporary ban on May 4, though the reason is unknown.Read more
Twitch Says It’s The Best Place For Creators Right After A Series Of Disasters
22.3.2023
Twitch is shedding employees and talent. Conversations about the platform are mired in scandals about deepfake porn and gambling. It’s the perfect time, in other words, for the Amazon-owned streaming platform to go on the offensive and pretend things have never been better.Read more
Twitch Streamer Caught With Deepfake Porn Of Friends Returns, Wants To Help
15.3.2023
Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing—the Twitch streamer who in January accidentally revealed he was viewing explicit deepfake content featuring women streamers he’s friends with IRL, setting off a massive controversy—recently returned to the platform to update his fans.Read more
Twitch Finally Addresses Porn Deepfake Scandal Over A Month Later
7.3.2023
A month after Twitch streamer Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing accidentally revealed that he was watching sexually explicit deepfakes of his fellow streamers while on stream, Twitch has issued a lengthy statement regarding its stance on the controversy and what the company is calling “synthetic...
Twitch Star xQc Horrifies World With Messy, Smelly Room (Again)
16.2.2023
There are only so many hours in the day and when you’re a capital-S streamer, most of them are dedicated to grinding battle pass levels in whatever new live-service game just dropped or reacting to all the latest internet drama to thousands of chatters. As such, there isn’t always time to clean...
The Aftermath Of Twitch's Deepfake Porn Scandal
10.2.2023
You know Sweet Anita. You’ve seen her streams, stumbled across her Twitter account, or watched clips of her on TikTok. She’s likable—the kind of person you could watch do anything, even as she clicks her tongue, whistles, and tells you fuck off. You’ve probably had her curse you out on repeat in...
Twitch Streamer Pokimane Wants Tougher Laws On Revenge Porn
28.12.2022
One of the biggest female streamers on Twitch wants to take a harder stance on revenge porn—nude photos that are posted online without their owners’ consent. Imane “Pokimane” Anys said in a recent Twitch stream that it should be “illegal” to possess nudes without their owners’ consent, and that...
Twitch Star Is Hawking A New Livestreaming Platform Owned By Banned Gambling Site
7.12.2022
A few months ago, the growing presence and influence of gambling sites on Twitch motivated the platform’s top personalities to threaten to strike. Pressure from top streaming celebrities like Pokimane pushed the Amazon-owned site to ban crypto gambling site Stake.com and others that “aren’t...
Twitch Streamers Are Pissed That Amazon Is Taking More Of Their Money For BS Reasons
22.9.2022
Yesterday, the president of Twitch, Dan Clancy, announced a change to the revenue system that would mean some of the top performing Twitch streamers will get less money. According to Clancy, Twitch was making this change in order to afford increasing server costs.The changes would not affect “the...
Twitch Bans Major Gambling Sites After Streamers Threaten Strike
21.9.2022
It’s been a rough 24 hours for people broadcasting in purple. After a scandal broke that a Twitch streamer had been scamming viewers and peers alike out of an alleged $200,000 to fund a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive addiction, top personalities started exerting pressure on the live-streaming...
Top Twitch Streamers Like Pokimane, Mizkif Threaten Strike After $200,000 Gambling Scam
19.9.2022
On Saturday, a Twitch streamer named Abraham Mohammed, better known to viewers as Sliker, admitted that he had scammed fans and other content creators out of at least $200,000 to fund his Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gambling addiction. In response, big-name streamers such as Imane “Pokimane”...
Twitch Is Removing Its ‘Host Mode’ Feature And Everyone’s Upset
7.9.2022
For some reason, which droves of streamers, viewers, and this journalist cannot figure out, Twitch is permanently removing its host mode feature on October 3. At that point, host mode, its accompanying chat command /host, and the channel settings feature Autohost will be lost to time, leaving...