The Twitch Exodus: Why Streamers are Jumping Ship | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Go to http://mintmobile.com/casket to cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month! https://www.makeship.com/products/iilluminaughtii-2-0-plush Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. For a while, Twitch seemed untouchable. They were the king of streaming and without real competition. However, as time has worn on, creators have become exhausted with their policies and hypocrisy. More streamers have left the platform and joined alternatives, like Youtube, leaving Twitch to catch up or die. Is Twitch falling apart, or are they on the verge of a breakthrough? Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/95p5d Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Jess Hubbert This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just as a heads up that the limited edition pyramid plushie with the magnifying glass is going to be ending within like the next 24 hours
0:08.0	So if you haven't had the chance to pick up a plush yet now is absolutely the last minute to do so. If you want your very
0:14.7	own cute and cuddly little pyramid with an eye out for scams and business
0:18.7	corruption head on over to makeshift.com or just click the link in the
0:22.0	description box.
0:23.0	YouTube is the place for long form content by your favorite creators.
0:31.0	Tik-talk is the place for long-form content by your favorite creators.
0:34.3	Tik-Tok is the place for short-form content.
0:36.5	And then there's Twitch, the place for streamers and gamers.
0:39.6	Whether it's Minecraft, resident evil, sports, music, gambling, women in hot tubs,
0:44.7	artists, news, politics, VR chat, they've basically got everything.
0:50.0	While this sure sounds like a recipe for success, and Twix has had a lot of success, no doubt,
0:55.2	they've also made some serious missteps along the way that have alienated them from their
0:59.6	streamers and viewers too. One of the most recent extreme examples of this is probably the infamous
1:05.2	foam pit disaster, not to be confused with Tumblr's ball pit disaster. At
1:10.5	Twitch Con 2022, one exhibit was a shallow pit of foam cube scattered over concrete.
1:15.6	If you think that sounds like an accident waiting to happen, you'd be absolutely correct.
1:20.0	Grabity.
1:22.0	No, no, she's fine.
1:24.0	Obviously, someone's going to jump into that foam pit with full force expecting more foam or
1:31.7	padding at the bottom, but not concrete at the bottom.
1:35.1	Twitch seemed to anticipate this, making participants sign waivers as they battled above the
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