ICYMI: What’s It Like Being a Twitch Streamer?

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

A lot has been happening around Twitch, a platform that really seems to live in its own world on the internet. On today’s show, Rachelle is joined by Gita Jackson who explains exactly why Twitch can feel so insular even though the audience is enormous. They also talk about the poorly planned TwitchCon, and the horrible things that have led streamer Amouranth to take a break from the site. This podcast is produced by Daniel Schroeder, Rachelle Hampton, and Daisy Rosario. Subscribe to Slate Plus at https://slate.com/icymiplus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are days when you're hungry for McDonald's.
0:03.0	Then there are days when you're Big Arch hungry for McDonald's.
0:08.0	You'll get to know the difference.
0:10.0	New Big Arch for Big McDonald's hunger.
0:13.0	Until 9th of September, from 11 a.m.,
0:18.0	participating restaurants only, subject to availability.
0:29.2	Like, even haters are like, damn, I fucking hate Amaranth, but you know what?
0:31.0	I hope she's okay.
0:34.5	Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton.
0:39.0	And I'm Gita Jackson, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I.
0:40.3	In case you missed it.
0:42.2	Slate's podcast about Internet Culture.
0:48.6	And today I am joined by one of my absolute favorite Internet culture writers.
0:50.5	I am not just saying that. I truly have been following you for years.
0:52.5	I'm so excited to welcome you. Gita Jackson to the show.
0:56.5	Thank you so much. Oh my gosh. What a welcome. Yeah, it's really wonderful to be here. My sister-in-law
1:05.2	listens to this podcast every single week. So I'm very excited for her to hear this.
1:15.5	Previously, Gita's work for VICE's motherboard and Kotaku.
1:18.7	They also have bylines in GQ, Polygon, MTV News, rest in peace, wherever you are,
1:24.4	and Paste magazine.
1:26.0	You have an incredible Twitter presence. Italian Elon Musk
1:29.5	is forever in my head. And as I said before, you're one of my favorite people who writes
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