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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 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...
Popular Female Streamers Targeted In Deepfake Pornography Scandal
31.1.2023
Yesterday, Twitch streamer Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing issued a tearful apology during his livestream after he accidentally revealed that he had deepfake pornography of popular female Twitch streamers open on his computer. The video of his apology—in which he claims to have clicked an ad on PornHub...
Huge Dong Makes Appearance During Streaming Awards Show
31.1.2023
Spanish streamer TheGrefg is one of the biggest stars on Twitch, so much so that he recently held his own awards show that drew almost two million viewers. And everyone watching was, for a moment, treated to a big ol’ ASCII penis.Read more
Nobody Was Ready For This Twitch Streamer's Answer To 'Show Feet'
27.1.2023
What would you do if a random stranger asked to see your feet? Probably chuckle awkwardly and start walking faster. Streamer Nyy did neither. She had a better idea, and her Twitch chat will never be the same again.Read more
New AI Tech Gives Twitch Streamers Constant, Creepy Eye Contact
24.1.2023
Nvidia’s come up with new AI-powered tech that swaps out your real eyes for digital ones that will never stop looking at your webcam. It’s very creepy, and one more sign of how unnatural you have to act online to become a popular streamer in 2023.Read more
AI VTuber Banned For 'Hateful Conduct,' Now Undistinguishable From Real Twitch Stars
11.1.2023
If you watched even a minute of Neuro-sama streaming on Twitch you knew it was only a matter of time before the AI-controlled Vtuber got banned. The channel is currently offline for two weeks due to “hateful conduct,” though it’s not immediately clear what the offending incident was.Read more
Twitch Star Apologizes For 'Insensitive' Comeback Stream
3.1.2023
Matthew “Mizkif” Rinaudo, the embattled Twitch streamer who was suspended from gaming organization One True King (OTK) last September amid allegations that he helped cover up an alleged sexual assault, has apologized for the “insensitive” and “tone-deaf” behavior he displayed in a broadcast from...
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
The Scariest Things That Happened In Gaming In 2022
28.10.2022
On an average day, my friends might ask me how my job is going. I’ll smile, tell them “It’s going great,” and then launch into a story about one of the most fucked up things they’ve ever heard of. And now I get to give the recap to you.Read more
Overwatch 2 Halloween Twitch Drops: How To Grab A Winston Werewolf Skin (And More)
25.10.2022
It’s time for more Overwatch 2 Twitch drops! This time it’s in celebration of the spooky season. Twitch viewers will have a chance at earning two cosmetics starting October 25, plus a couple others later in November. As with all Twitch drops, you’ll need to link your Battle.net account to your...
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
Overwatch 2 Twitch Drops: What To Know About Scoring Kiriko's Exclusive Goodies
7.10.2022
Overwatch 2 landed this week with a bunch of changes compared to the first game, not the least of which were its new heroes. And if you’re looking to kit out the game’s latest support hero, Kiriko, you don’t want to miss out on Overwatch 2’s first Twitch Drop. Kicking off today, October 7, at 2:00...
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...