As we explained, yesterday thousands of streamers took the day off on Twitch to protest the continuous facilitation of the site for harassment campaigns known as hate incursions. And while regular readers of video game websites would have been armed with a lot of information a day, TV news viewers needed things to be explained more clearly.
To help stream the information in a short 2-minute segment, Fox 5 New York obtained VTuber Buffpup to help explain the protest and their experiences on the platform, and while the combination of the words “Fox News” and “Vtuber” may lead you down a certain supposed path, everything was played out in such a direct and informative way. which is one of the best examples of the “trying to explain video game shit to everyday people” genre that comes to mind! Above all the history of the television channel when it comes to things online.
If you i have been missing the news for the last two days, a large number of streamers refused to broadcast yesterday on the continuation of the platform of “hate raids”, cases in which malicious users using bot accounts flood the chat channels of streamers and marginalized color streamers. Gathering around the hashtag #ADayOffTwitch, early reports indicate that they did indeed hit Twitch traffic during the day:
Although Amazon’s proprietary streaming platform has not yet implemented the proposed changes to the controversial attack system, it is clear that some previously fired since a small move has had a big impact, potentially costing Twitch about 22% of the day’s maximum simultaneous traffic.
This number is coming TwitchTracker which provides external data on platform metrics, such as how many people are streaming and how many are watching. While Twitch typically reaches 4.5 million simultaneous viewers on a given day, it stood at about 3.5 million on Wednesday. This drop occurred when the number of content creators that aired on the platform dropped by more than 10,000 as they concentrated around the #ADayOffTwitch tag.
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Updated: 09/02/2021 22:00 ET: Okay, as an Australian, I don’t seem to fully understand the difference between regional affiliated stations and the main channel, but still. The main point of the post, and to which I have already related — that all the television networks on the network, from CNN to Fox, have had issues with these things lately — is still held, so I’ll leave the post as it is. .