fair points Boyd Crowder and Ron I just read the knowyourmeme page and felt like I might as well have been reading greek
Cliffs: Two huge Twitch streamers start a (possibly manufactured) beef because one streamer made fun of the other for worshiping crystals or some shit.
hot take alert. Nothing weird at all about watching twitch. It's not much different than watching sports. However, the twitch rivalry stuff is weird. Obviously there are going to be streamers who don't get along because that's human nature. Those rivalries passing on to the viewers is really weird to me. I watch streamers because I either enjoy their gameplay and/or their personality is entertaining. I don't give a shit about their personal beefs. If they stop being entertaining, I'm unfollowing and moving on to the next streamer. I'm a Dolphins/Panthers/Heat/Marlins fan because of the local ties and loyalty. They can be the worst team for 20+ years (the Panthers) and I'm still going to be a diehard.
He gifted them immediately. I was watching Tim’s stream and Tim had to help him find the gift a sub option
Nothing to odd about watching twitch, but I’ve heard a few people speaking in twitch chat (saying stuff like poggers) and that crosses my internet line.
ehh, it's nothing different than the meme's TMB has. How many times has a well placed "hello at the show" post gotten 50+ likes? each channel has its own memes.
twitch is basically the internet. there's extremely normal sections (the Tims of the world), but there's also the strangest darkest weird sub cultures that you can find. taking twitch chat vernacular to real life does make you a lunatic though.
was waiting to see if anyone posted the Shungite stuff. I know there's some Doc fans here who probably buy into that shit or think it was him doing a bit in character and not him being a dumbass Boomer spreading 5G conspiracy garbage.
Discounting the "worship part" but how is watching twitch any weirder than say, people who buy shoes with no intention of ever wearing them as "collectors"?
Nothing is weird about watching Twitch. I have it on in the background all day. I’m keying in on the people who act cultish in twitch chat and who Stan their favorite streamers who clearly aren’t being themselves while they stream. Doc is a megadouche IRL who cheated on his wife with a fan. His shtick and persona are a great entertainment but a lot of his religious followers are super weird. I don’t get your shoe analogy that much. To me that’s simply a collector who is purchasing something that he hopes will appreciate in value. I would compare some of them more to WWE wrestlers. In fact that may be the better comparison.
If you have ever watched a girl stream, it is the fucking weirdest 50/50 split of really gross misogyny and unbelievably cringeworthy foreveralones from r/niceguys.
Was curious who it was Doc cheated with. Old Reddit thread concluded it was Cray. Singer/Streaming. Shes smoke.
twitch always needed continued growth and gaming only content was limiting, just chatting was an inevitability
They're called simps and male streamers have them too. Doc keeps his chat in subscriber only mode at all times, and it's nothing but pathetic and cringeworthy messages from dudes desperate for the Doc's attention and acceptance. He's not the only one but he's a good example. I used to hate Twitch chat but it has grown on me. I even enjoy xQc's chat from time to time. In fact I'd rather read his chat than any streamer's subscriber only chat.
I personally like how Chess is blowing up on Twitch right now. Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru have been good follows lately
Their dumb drama lately is pathetic, but other than that, it's great for the game and the community. There are dickhead elitists like Finegold who I can't stand. There is going to be a Twitch Rivals tournament with 16 non-chess popular streamers for a $50k pot.
I respect your opinion, and maybe I haven't given him a proper chance. But his voice is grating and I don't feel any of his inside jokes or references.
Only even have chat open when I’m watching someone with less than 1k viewers. Only chat I ever participate in is Larsfest.
twitch fans are so crazy. People keep sending tim $120+ tips just so they can recommend anime's to him.
same. I also rarely watch streamers with 20K+ viewers. Just not into watching games that are the current meta.
I’ve found myself only watching pro cs tournaments/leagues or The Happy Hob recently. He’s the only streamer besides Doc I’ve found I can watch consistently. I also enjoy watching Formal but I have no idea why.
Man. That’s gonna suuuuck for RPers if they can’t use music. Milton, in particular, is incredible with having theme-setting ambience music.
Might be the huge break Mixer needed. Can’t see how Twitch won’t bend the rules here on this situation.
it's not a twitch issue, they are getting claimed by the rights owners mixer is subjected to the same claims
it also pretty much decimates the Music & Performing Arts section of twitch since a lot of that is people doing covers to actual music
I meant that Twitch has a three strike and you’re out policy regarding such claims. If all streamers past vods/clips are subject to claims like the article states, then many of them will cross that threshold. But like I said, there’s no way Twitch doesn’t bend that rule here.
twitch will definitely take a pause on bans due to copyright strikes their support is just being stupid slow about saying that out loud
it actually kinda is just a Twitch issue because the problem isn't VODs (which auto-mute copyright claimed music), it's clips. when clips are made, they kinda sorta exist externally from the stream or VOD they were clipped from i.e. a streamer can delete a VOD and the clips remain (they can also delete all clips associated with that VOD but it's an option not mandatory) and there is no program to monitor clips and mute them like there is with VODs and there's no way for streamers to know which clips are the offending ones which is why some streamers are essentially deleting all their clips, which is shitty because VODs have a shelf-life but clips do not so there are parts of some streams that these streamers will delete and that shit is essentially lost forever unless they're popular enough to have those people who do compilations for them on Youtube and also included the clip (btw these comps can get DMCA claimed as well). Twitch being Twitch and never planning for anything has turned this into a real clusterfuck. Mixer technically has clips but their system is way more complicated and so it doesn't really end up applying here, this is entirely about how clips work in the Twitch ecosystem.
If a clip occurs with copyrighted music, it can be claimed. Even though the VODs will mute parts, there are still parts that will play with copyrighted music. It just makes it harder for a bot to find it bc of the muted part. At the end of the day, the streamer just can’t play copyrighted music anymore since they’ve now decided to make claims against streamers, which applies to any platform. The clusterfuck and panic is coming bc people thought it’d be one strike per clip bc twitch was slow to put out messaging. But now they’ve said they’re gonna take a pause on perma-bans due to 3 strike rule so they can figure out how to help streamers either delete all the clips or mute them.