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The Year In Twitch Pol Himbo King Hasan Piker
29.12.2022
Hasan Piker is many things. He’s a hardcore himbo, an amateur gamer, and frequent heated moment haver. He speaks to legions of young men, women, and enbys on the internet almost every day via his wildly popular Twitch channel, and feeds their parasocial bond via his other social media channels....
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...
Army Planned To Spend Millions On Twitch And Call Of Duty To Recruit Gen Z
2.12.2022
The U.S. Army’s gamer to soldier pipeline is hardly a secret at this point, but new documents show its recent, detailed plans to spend millions to recruit Gen Z through gaming-related sponsorships and ad campaigns. The partnerships ranged from Call of Duty Twitch streamers to sponsoring content...
Twitch Streamer Hasanabi Gets Official Pass To Say 'Cracker' From Wheat Thins
21.11.2022
Last year, Hasan “Hasanabi” Piker was temporarily banned from the Amazon-owned streaming platform, Twitch, for having the audacity to say “cracker” full-throated while broadcasting to an audience of 2.3 million followers. Last week, everyone’s favorite tiny-headed socialist streamer finally...
Report: Streamer Deleted From TV Station's Feed After Abusive, Misogynist Video Resurfaces
15.11.2022
Streamer, YouTuber and all-round internet celebrity IShowSpeed has recently been helping one of the biggest TV stations in Europe, Sky Sports, with its broadcasts of English Premier League matches. That was, reportedly, until the executives at the channel found out about a video that went viral...
YouTube Streamer Ludwig's Fans Are Buying Twitter Blue Just To DM Him
10.11.2022
The blue Twitter checkmark was once the lightning-shaped scar of the internet. It meant that you were marked by fate to achieve great things, and all unverified peons had to bow at your feet. That was before Elon Musk bought Twitter. Now verification is more like a Louis Vuitton bag—you paid...
Buy Two Twitch Subs And They’ll Throw In A 3-Month Xbox Game Pass Trial
4.11.2022
Here’s something you might want to know: For the next week, Twitch is partnering up with Microsoft and offering three-month PC Game Pass trials to Twitch users who purchase two subscriptions.Read more
Twitch Streamer Amouranth Says She's Taking A Break After Disclosing Abuse
20.10.2022
Two days after Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa regained control of her finances and social media accounts from her abusive husband, she announced that she would be taking a break from streaming, and she’s “not sure” when she would return. Read more
Netflix Announces Game Streaming Plans Three Weeks After Google’s Attempt Blows Up
19.10.2022
In the wake of Google Stadia’s recently announced, entirely inevitable collapse, launching a new streamed gaming service might seem a little brave. But then, if you’re Netflix, you’ve certainly at least got some of the infrastructure in place. The streaming giant has made clear its intentions...
Streamer Kai Cenat Calls Out Twitch After Overtaking xQc For Most Subs
26.9.2022
Kai Cenat provided a bright spot at the end of what was a very bad week for Twitch. The 20-year-old streamer managed to crack 80,000 paid subs, overtaking Félix ‘xQc’ Lengyel to become the most subscribed English-speaking channel on Twitch. A tearful mid-stream call with his mom summed...
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...
Pokimane: Twitch Isn't 'Creatively Fulfilling' Anymore, So She’s Branching Out, Streaming Less
2.9.2022
After a more than one-month-long (and seemingly healthy) break from social media and content creation, Twitch star Imane “Pokimane” Anys has returned to uploading content. But things will be different now. Pokimane dropped a new YouTube video today detailing her time away from the internet, talking...
Trans Twitch Streamer Keffals Now ‘In Hiding’ After Second Dox Attack
19.8.2022
Trans Canadian Twitch streamer and political commentator Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti recently suffered from a second attack in what is shaping up to be a hellish summer, she revealed in an August 18 YouTube video.Read more