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Twitch Bans Popular Streamer’s Cute Emote For ‘Inciting Abuse’
21.3.2023
Fortnite Twitch streamer and hugely popular gaming TikToker Chica seemed to get some surprising news yesterday—Twitch removed one of her emotes, a cartoon chick with big, wet eyes and its tongue sticking out, for “inciting abuse.”Read more
Twitch CEO Steps Down After 16 Years
16.3.2023
Emmett Shear is no longer the boss of Twitch. After 16 long, controversy-filled years, the co-founder and only CEO the Amazon-owned streaming platform has ever known announced he’s stepping down to spend more time with his family. 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
Stranger Things Actor Says She's Streaming On Twitch More Due To Industry Sexual Harassment
10.3.2023
Grace Van Dien is a streamer and an actress. You probably know her best as Chrissy Cunningham on Stranger Things, but she’s also starred in movies like What Comes Around and V For Vengeance. Two days ago, she told her Twitch viewers that she “turned down acting projects and decided to stream more”...
AI Seinfeld Is Back On Twitch, But Without Seinfeld (And Fans Are Upset)
9.3.2023
That never-ending show parodying the ‘90s sitcom Seinfeld using machine-generated content, Nothing, Forever, is back on Twitch after being temporarily pulled offline in early February for generating some transphobic jokes. Unfortunately, this revival that creators Mismatch Media have dubbed season...
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...
Redditors Find Popular YouTuber Ludwig's Stolen Rare Car In 24 Hours
2.3.2023
When you work hard, you’re entitled to, in the immortal words of Parks and Rec, treat yo self. That’s what YouTuber Ludwig “Ludwig” Ahgren did in August 2022 when he imported a 1997 Subaru Sambar from Japan for roughly $7,000. It was his “dream car,” as he put it. A few days ago the prized mini...
Twitch Streamer Kai Cenat Bodies Subscriber World Record During Black History Month
1.3.2023
Kai Cenat, the 21-year-old rising Twitch star who took the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform by storm in 2021 and 2022, has smashed another record on the last day of Black History Month. This time, it was the record for the streamer with the most active subscribers, an accolade previously...
Twitch Star Adin Ross Banned After Streaming Porn, Now Lashing Out
27.2.2023
Adin Ross, one of Twitch’s top broadcasters with over seven million followers, has been banned from the livestreaming platform for the eighth time. This time, it appears to be permanent following a string of incidents he’s engaged in on rival streaming platform Kick, including pulling up porn...
Horizon Forbidden West: A Year Later, The PS5 Gem Feels Forgotten
27.2.2023
The Horizon series has a knack for bad timing. When the first Horizon Zero Dawn released, Breath of the Wild came out mere days later. Last year, when Horizon Forbidden West came out, Elden Ring was on its heels days after. Now, it seems, Horizon is overshadowing itself.Read more
Doja Cat Streams ‘Satanic’ PowerWash Simulator On Twitch
16.2.2023
Did you know that Doja Cat has a Twitch account? Well, you do now. On it, she’s been playing this “Satanic” game called PowerWash Simulator. Maybe you’ve heard of it.Read more
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...
Call of Duty Sexists Tell Twitch Streamer To Make Sandwiches, And She Does
14.2.2023
It’s 2023, and FPS gaming hasn’t really improved for anyone who sounds like a woman over voice chat. No matter how skilled they are, it seems inevitable that some fuckwad is going to tell the player to make a sandwich. One female Call of Duty streamer decided to respond to shitty opponents...
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...
Don’t Sleep On Keke Palmer’s Amazing Twitch Streams
9.2.2023
Another big-name celebrity has found their way to Twitch. Keke Palmer, the long-time actress and TV personality who most recently starred in Jordan Peele’s Nope, has become a full-fledged livestreamer on Amazon’s platform after getting her channel set up earlier this month.Read more
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...
Twitch's Popular AI-Powered Seinfeld Show Gets Banned For Transphobia
6.2.2023
In an unfortunate turn of events, the AI Seinfeld show that’s been all over Twitch has been hit with the ban hammer for some terribly transphobic “jokes.”Read more
Twitch’s Mega Popular AI Streamer Now Pulling In Thousands Of Viewers With Reaction Content
3.2.2023
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere these days, with technologies like ChatGPT and DALL-E encroaching on human artistic creativity and expression. Sometimes it yields interestingly absurdist results, such as that AI-generated Seinfeld-like show Nothing, Forever. Other times, it feigns humanity...
T-Pain Changed Music Forever, Now He's Coming For Twitch
2.2.2023
2016 was T-Pain’s Twitch channel’s inaugural year, and it’s also the first time Pain remembers getting trolled. “At the time, my music career was kind of on a downward spiral,” he says during our Zoom call this Monday. “People were coming into my chat and telling me stuff like, ‘You’re only...
AI-Generated Seinfeld-Like Twitch ‘TV Show’ Is Peak Absurdity
1.2.2023
There’s always something to watch on Twitch, whether that’s your fave musicians talking about video games or your fave streamers discussing politics. Now your choices include an absurd, often nonsensical Seinfeld-like show that runs 24/7/365 and is generated on the fly using artificial...