Make Art/Creative its own directory
Hey all!
We’re excited to announce that we’ve rolled out the new Creative directory today!
As we mentioned before, the Creative directory features creators in our artistic categories including Art, Beauty & Body Art, Food & Drink, Makers & Crafting, and Software & Game Development. This will make it easier for both viewers that want to discover creators in these categories and creators looking to find and connect with others who stream creative content.
We expect these directories to continue to grow over time, so please keep the ideas coming. And if you believe an existing category is missing from this list, please let us know.
Thank you for all your feedback and as always we look forward to more of it. We’re looking forward to seeing you, your communities, and your creativity in the new directory!
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HaywireJ commented
I think the art scene has a considerable space on the Twitch platform. To hide it from people would really hinder its growth. Specifically, creators would mostly likely suffer from the lack of visibility.
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InkOre commented
This got scary faster than I already feared.
Please don't make Art disappear like that. IRL is not fitting for Art at all and people won't care to search for a (mere) hashtag.When Art/Creative got torn apart it got so bad for the streamers already. I feel like the higher-ups are looking for a way to discard these* amazing communities.
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straynekoboy commented
Don't throw away your art streamers, please.
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DreamableSeal commented
Yes 100000% do this
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GissEva commented
Not gonna lie, as someone who likes to stream on Multiple Platforms (Not gonna go for Twitch Affiliate tbh), this is kinda rather disheartening that Art is getting lumped in with the "IRL" Directory.
It's even more disheartening for those that stream only on Twitch and does Art Streams only.
Listen, I get Twitch started out as a primely gaming platform, especially considering the fact it spun off from the gaming section of the old defunct streaming site, Justin.tv.
However, now that Twitch is trying have more of a variety for what you can stream, like music and IRL streams, it SHOULD have art have its own directory.
Also, there's one thing I like to point out, there are probably a good amount of artists that are basically camera shy and/or don't have a good webcam so putting Art in the IRL directory might be a little counterproductive. (Sure, there are artist that are willing to show their face but we gotta acknowledge those that don't)
And as some of the other commenters say, Visual Arts has a lot of varieties to it. Drawing, Painting, Comics, Animation, 3D Modelling, Sculpting, and so much more. Not to mention it can also range from Traditional to Digital!
Bottom Line: Please actually common sense and have art get its own directory
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pancakez3d commented
yeah... pls don't dump art into IRL.... It also does really not fit considered that most art is done digitally....
Art is already hard enough to find.
Also music and visual art should be seperated as its really very different content.
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SilverCatBoi commented
Make custom tags, it’s currently impossible to find anything that I want on twitch. If I want to find LGBTQ+ VTubers it shouldn’t be completely impossible to look for that on twitch, currently I’m having to go out of my way to look on Twitter or other social media‘s to try to find people when I really should just have to look on twitch for people that stream on twitch.
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ShleBirb commented
Maybe don’t shoot yourself in the foot like oculus and actually recognize people buy subs for the use of cool/cute emotes.
- an emote artist that knows I can only game to get traction cause your reach sucks if you don’t play a video game
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BeanyCoffee commented
Please bring back the Creative category for artists. It's a good umbrella for many types of media including digital art, game development, crafting, and more. It's already difficult to be discovered on the platform, artists put so much into the site with the work they produce not just for themselves but for other streamers too. It would mean a lot for twitch to support that community.
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Auvery commented
Make this happen please, artists are constantly getting undervalued and this not being considered made it no better...
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vuragado commented
This, 100%
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shyguychan commented
Art needs their own space on the platform
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Schwig commented
Art, Programming, and other Design based streams should be grouped together with music under a "Creative" banner. There are so many artists, programmers, engineers and designers using the site as a platform to advertise, educate, or entertain that they deserve to be separate from the "IRL" tag. If music can have its own tag, so should all the creative streams, individually or together.
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JackOfTheFlames commented
Creative makes so much more sense than having "Music" as the only creative-leaning category. It also tells more to people's taste. Gaming makes sense, Esports do, ect. But IRL?
IRL will be so crammed with different things. I don't see why the same category should have people eating food, walking in a park, exercising, and drawing EVEN when the person in question is drawing digitally without a webcam.
With that logic, everything should be IRL, as everyone are a person with at least one screen.
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PoodlesNDoodles commented
If Gaming and Esports get their own directories, it seems really arbitrary to lump Art/Creative in with IRL. Especially when Music is also its own thing. It feels like Twitch is casting artists to the side.
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DraconicKaiser commented
Show artists some love.
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QueenOfCBR commented
I never understood why the Creative category seems tolerated vs. appreciated. What’s the harm in a category that covers a substantial genre of platform streamers?
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Ektambo commented
Please help them out with this, art streamers are one of my favorite ways to relax 💜
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MaddHattPatt commented
Why go separate out Music into its own category in the wake of DMCAs, when you guys could lump it all in as a Creative category.
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brotherghesh commented
Considering emotes are a staple of twitch it would make sense that art should have its own category.