Hello, and welcome to DCV live episode number 287, the guardianist, the most

gamest of all episodes to 2022 edition. Wow. I was a prepared. I did take notes for

the most guardianist, gamingist one. I know. We're about to get all kinds of

gaming up in here. I'm watching a pre-roll right now. You're getting the

pre-roll ad on the channel. Oh, my land. What do you think about Twitch?

I'm trying to take more money from you. How do you feel about that? Yeah, look, we were just having

a very brief discussion of off air about ads and Twitch. I've just been talking to my community

about it. I mean, Twitch is always there's been rumors of Twitch doing different stuff.

For me right now, my gut reaction where I see it is, you know, the ad experience on Twitch is

is awful and that's because it is a live experience and people miss out on stuff when you

watch ads and it can feel like punishment. If you don't have money, and the thing is,

you know, I'm sure DCB, we're all here and everyone that comes over to our personal channels.

You know, we love people lurking, hanging out, you know, whether you follow, subscribe,

a view, and it's just a very different ecosystem with ads on Twitch than it is on YouTube.

And it's, I think you get interrupted live content just doesn't make sense, right?

Yeah. And it, you know, obviously encourages people to subscribe, but there's the part of like,

I don't want to punish people for not giving money because that builds a healthy community

because all those people type in and chat and hang out is what makes like a support of place

on the Twitch thing. It's obviously Twitch hasn't worked it out themselves.

They don't know how to make Twitch profitable. Clearly. Yeah.

I honestly don't think ads at the world. I don't think the volume is enough. I mean, unless you're

XQC and you have 60,000 concurrent people and then you're actually showing it ad to 60,000 people,

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