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“Twitch does something to upset users, again; users become upset, refuse to do anything about it.”

@arstechnica
I gave up on twitch because of the excessive ads. Otoh, I can understand the streamers being upset.

@arstechnica what about picking up a thing and saying something about a thing? Or wearing a t-shirt?

@arstechnica I can understand the "burned in" video ads but the others? Fuck that.

@arstechnica I don’t stream, watch any streams, or have an account on any streaming service and even I think this is dumb. The people you’re targeting stream as a job and you’re trying to tell them how they’re allowed to make money? I don’t think so, Mr. Bezos. No one goes to twitch because it’s twitch, they go to see the people they enjoy.

@arstechnica We are quickly entering the canibalization phase of "advertising funded services."

The VC funding that kept these services afloat is gone. They need cash, and there's not enough revenue in the entire system to generate the returns they want.

Twitter, Meta, YouTube, Reddit, Twitch, etc. will all inevitably end up sucking every one of their "creators" dry, Jul their platform, and still never even get close to their ludicrous targets.

@arstechnica Was debating on doing like sewing for charity on a live stream... so like I couldn't promote my own charity fuuuuuu