Conventions, specifically for [[gaming]], focus on Twitch and advertise it like a goddamn Geico commercial, while Twitch itself goes the [[Blip]] route and has constant ads of its own. But thankfully unlike Blip, since the site is the most primitively-run streaming site ever, AdBlock works just fine.
One major shitfit Twitch had was back in August 2014, when the site's latest "update" caused a good majority of streamers to crash every 4 minutes and 28 seconds specifically, and sometimes even [[Fail|less than a minute]] from stream start to crash, for two days straight. Much asshurt was had and Twitch wasn't giving a straight answer to why their site took an even bigger plunge. It was eventually fixed, but several people had made the exodus to its new competition, Hitbox, instead anyway. Hitbox is going all out with 4k 60fps support and then some anyway, while Twitch is stuck in the [[Flash]] era built only for iPods, where would YOU go?
* http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/questions/8315308" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The 4:28 issue in question
Twitch is well known for its extraordinarily shitty security. There is no limit to the amount of accounts one can set up under one e-mail address, making it a haven for trolls and leets alike. In March of 2015, Raiders settled in to their own site - Black Forums, then they broke off and formed "Raid Forums" when the original site got shut down. There, they plan their next raid and share raiding secrets.
Twitch was hacked in March 2015, causing massive [[butthurt]] from their users that their passwords were stolen. Twitch is also incredibly dumb when it comes to streamers being hacked on live events. They don't know, in the slightest form of acknowledgement, how to prevent IPs, addresses, and phone numbers being taken from PewDiePie wannabe Minecraft brats.
In late February/early March, multiple raiding community members decided to come together and create a central hub for people to come together and plan raids. This is also after the fall of the popular raiding site "Alphas.sx", which failed due to unrest within the community of the site, and the first raiding specific site "blackforums.net", which was the target of constant distributed denial of service attacks which eventually led the website owners to close the domain. Many of the staff from the previous websites are now serving as staff members on Raidforums.
Raidforums has many staff members but the original staff still working on the site are SummiT(Owner), Predator(Owner/Hosting), Celaeon(Administrator), and Kikeslayer420(Administrator/Moderator). It should be noted that many staff members have retired from their duties, as a large amount of stress and responsibility comes with managing Raidforums, because a large amount of the community are newfag cancer and occasionally (on a daily basis) cause problems.
Nowadays, it's not even like playing the games anymore, it's just a pokemon [[gambling]] stream, betting on pokemon cockfights. It only tops 300 people instead too, so it's safe to say the fad has died and the cancer mostly cured.
Like many other social media websites, [[nudity]] is against Twitch's [[Banhammer|TOS]]. However, due to the fact that their primary userbase is half-naked [[Whore|e-girl]]s, they worked very hard to tow the line to see how far they really could go to satisfy their [[13-year old boy|13-year old]] sex-deprived [[simp]]s fans. And they did just that in late 2020/early 2021, when they came up with the idea of "hot tub streams". What is a "hot tub" stream exactly? It's fairly self-explanatory; a girl (who is usually in a [[Underwear|bikini]] or in some other kind of semi-nude fashion) sits in a kiddie pool, and writhes around suggestively and/or doing [[ASMR]], doing the absolute most they can sexually all without triggering the Twitch [[Banhammer]]. Streamers such as [[Amouranth]] popularized the genre, to the point where that was all you would find on the "Just Chatting" section.
Naturally, the [[male]] userbase of Twitch (you know, the demographic that is actually good at [[video games]]) started throwing a shitfit as a result, especially [[Dr. Disrespect]], who was banned from Twitch in 2020 for [[Bullshit|seemingly no reason at all]], yet these flagrant violations of TOS rules are being allowed on the front page nonetheless. The intense backlash caused Twitch to https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2021/05/21/lets-talk-about-hot-tub-streams/" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">release a non-statement, rife with [[feminist]] bullshit about "being sexy isn't a bannable offense". Furthermore, Twitch created a "Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches" category on the site. So not only did Twitch basically ignore a significant minority of their userbase who skirted the TOS just enough so they didn't catch a Banhammer, but Twitch actually REWARDED them for doing so.
Naturally, since this is the [[internet]] we're talking about, it wasn't enough to satisfy the [[whore]]s that populate their site. Whether it was the [[trannies]] that were bitching about a lack of a trans category, the [[niggers]] who were mad that Twitch wasn't endlessly [[virtue signaling]] to [[BLM]], to the whores that were mad that Twitch yoinked Amouranth's [[Jew Gold|ad revenue]], nobody would be satisfied. As for Twitch itself, this wouldn't change a damn thing on the site; Twitch will still strike smaller (male) creators for the slightest of transgressions, while they completely ignore the TOS violations from the larger (female) streamers, because [[tits]]. Gotta get that simp money somehow.
The hot tub meta culminated in some [[loser]] named https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/sex-addict-claims-hot-female-gamers-caused-him-to-injure-penis/" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Erik Estavillo trying to [[Lolsuit|sue]] Twitch in 2020 for $25 million. He cited Twitch [[PsyOps]] and e[[thot]] streamers such as [[Pokimane]] and [[Alinity]] as the reasons he will [[die alone]].
More recently, a [[furry]] [[Redditor]] named [[Payton Gendron]] live-streamed his attempt at the [[high score]] on Twitch after getting groomed by [[CIA|glow niggers]] on [[Discord]].
Twitch is also now suing two Europoor [[anon]]s for being mean to [[faggot|LGBTQABC+]] members and [[Nigger|Basketball Americans]] on the [[Internets]]. The two have circumnavigated their bans to continue their pursuit of the [[lols]].
On October 6th, 2021, the notorious hacker known as [[4chan|Four Chan]] posted what appeared to a leak of Twitch on the [[G|/g/]] board. However, it would soon transpire to be more than just an ordinary leak. It would soon be discovered that the following information would be included in the torrent file:
#The entire source code for Twitch.tv, even going back to the [[justin.tv]] days
#The source code for other Twitch properties, such as IGDB and CurseForge
#Source code for an unreleased Steam competitor from Amazon
And last but not least:
#Creator payout information from 2019-present (find out how many [[shekels]] your favorite content creator is making today!!1!)
This wasn't just a leak from some [[script kiddie]] - this was a digital pantsing of [[Jeff Bezos]] himself, for the entire internet to see. Naturally, after realizing that the leaks are in fact legitimate, the internet collectively lost its shit.
*Hitbox - Been in beta forever and still feels like it. Hardly anything in the extension shops to enhance it other than "HEY, THIS GUY IS STREAMING NAO!". Top streamers are from [[Poland]], [[Russia]], [[Spain]], basically everywhere that isn't 'Murica. Top American streamer [[Fail|can't even break 100 viewers]]. Their supposed "4k 60FPS" quality they were flaunting is now the status quo, and they now have nothing else to show for it.
*Beam - Newest streaming site about as stable as Gary Busey in an earthquake. Only things going for it is you get to see cancer form in real time instead of 10-30 seconds on Twitch and YouTube, and interacting with buttons under the stream so you can spend sparks to make gifs of [[1guy1jar]] pop up ad infinitum. Once again barely has any extensions to add to it, and YouTubers/Twitchers are fleeing the barely functioning streaming services there for this one. Also is instantly worse because [[Microsoft|Micro$oft]] owns it now.
*YouTube Gaming - The worst of the bunch, whenever people aren't streaming games, they're either turning it into [[YouNow]] or streaming space or playing [[SpongeBob]] episodes 24/7 until Viacom B&s their asses. Just like YouTube's comment section, the chat rooms have barely any moderators and people can proclaim their alliance to the Hitler Youth by spamming swastikas everywhere, or virgins can post their phone numbers to get people to have phone sex with them. Literally nothing is around to make it better, which is why no one sane uses it anymore.
*Mixer - A project [[Microsoft]] dumped millions of dollars into only for it to [[fail]]. Not even luring Ninja, Twitch's [[Fortnite]] golden child with [[jewgold]] could save Mixer from falling into irrelevancy.
*Facebook Gaming - [[Jew|Mark Zuckerberg]]
*Kick.com - Twitch but with less rules. Known for being the home of the [[lolcow]] [[Nigger|Johnny Somali]].
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