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The fact that gifts followed the security guidelines is an extra piss off. I could understand if it was only ones that hadn't, given events like people putting trackers in gifts, but what the actual fuck?
And right after everything with Club Ironmouse the night before? That's a double sting.
Surely this time they will all leave the Twitch platform, right? Right?
I mean, this sucks and all, but this is kinda getting to be like knowing a person who is willfully staying in an abusive relationship. So many times Twitch has horribly mistreated their content creators (well, except certain obvious "Golden Boy" creators), especially for VTubers it's even worse, and the creators just stay on the platform anyway. You know how they treat their creators, but you're still choosing to put yourself in that risk anyway?
One might say "But RightHandOfIkaros, where do they go?" I dunno... if they fall combined their money they could probably create/fund a new platform that is actually good. One that doesn't mistreat its creators and throw away their property or let them get assaulted in public. One that doesn't ban VTubers for slightly showing pixel skin but simultaneously having an entire approved category for basically softcore porn.
That takes a ginormous amount of money, I think Hololive is the only company that could have enough to pull that off and they're probably not interested, at least at the moment.
...BUT I think they have enough money to fund at least a different convention, they could focus on that. No need to bring more people to the mess that is (and probably will keep being) TwitchCon.
if they fall combined their money they could probably create/fund a new platform that is actually good
The closest equivalents I know of are Nebula (which doesn't do [live] streaming, and avoids moderation problems by just having no user discussion), and Floatplane. Even though each of the two platforms is "successful", afaik creators that use them still do so only as a secondary platform on top of their primary platform (YouTube). Based on that I'm not sure displacing (as opposed to augmenting) one of the big video/video streaming platforms is even practically possible right now without vc/saudi/gambling levels of money to burn.
Even Twitch -- despite its not-exactly-amazing state -- was not profitable as of 1.5 years ago: https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/twitch-ceo-confirms-company-is-still-not-profitable-but-amazon-has-been-extremely-supportive
I've been checking out DLive. I'm not really well-versed on options, but it seems to have a good balance between central over-reach, and being dominated by Nazis (Kick).
Honestly, while I don't necessarily like it, even moving to Youtube would be better.