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Amazon originally purchased Twitch for $970 million in an all-cash deal back in 2014. Twitch has since become the streaming platform of choice for gamers, Dungeons & Dragons fans, and even politicians. Despite being owned by a company estimated to be worth over $1 trillion, Twitch has been criticized like a lot of social media platforms for both failing to moderate adequately enough and for failing to shield the content creators who generate its profits from harassment.
On September 1, thousands of streamers boycotted Twitch for a day over its failure to address hate raids and other attacks aimed predominantly at marginalized content creators. Meanwhile, some of the biggest streamers have been jumping ship to YouTube and Facebook. The leak of top streamers’ personal earnings data as a result of the hack has also reignited conversations around disparities on the platform between top performers and everyone else, as well as concerns over data privacy.
I’m not sure seeing Bezos’ face quietly popping up all over the site will help.
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