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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fuzzlyzoo commented
It's already hard enough for all the wonderful creative streamers to get an audience on Twitch, this is making it harder. It also is demeaning to the artist to essentially lump them into the "other" bucket.
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bijoubaybee commented
You can rename Music to Creative. It isn't hard.
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BoffinIE commented
Art needs to be its own category on twitch - It is too vast to be thrown into an IRL category - Please fix this Twitch
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VybrantArt commented
MAKE ART A CATEGORY!
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Redvampire_95 commented
Combining creative with IRL is complete lunacy! You're just going to make it harder for art accounts from getting noticed!
Keep them separate!
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vidarion commented
How is "Art" / "Creative" not it's own category, Twitch? Lumping it into IRL is idiotic. If anything "Creative" should be the overall category and Art, Music, Maker, etc under it. IRL is in no way the correct category for Art or Creative.
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sagittariusartist87 commented
Art us a way to cope with people stress on a day to day basis and it's a way to make other peoples days brighter.
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Ferrothrax commented
After getting into Twitch watching gaming streams a little over a year ago, today more than half of the streams I watch regularly are art streams. To hide these under the smothering banner of all the IRL content can only harm the magnificently talented, welcoming, and popular art community on Twitch.
I sincerely hope that Twitch will reconsider their categorisation of their art community.
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MikeyFREAKINGv commented
Imagine thinking a digital artist with no facecam fits in an IRL category... gg twitch, gg >:|
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chokkulatte commented
pls art :((
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lilDevilBear commented
Art is important, and not just talking, give it its own category !
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vesikah commented
Twitch will suffer from a decision to roll everything into a single "IRL" category as more artists (and their followers) migrate to other platforms.
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xAvarii commented
Dont take this step back. - creating art is not just talking.
art/creative need its own directory.
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Mithinco commented
Art/creative needs its own category!
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Cindanela commented
Someone mentioned making creative a category and having music under that category. And I very much agree with that.
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Mizzy commented
As a fulltime streamer/partner I stream in Just Chatting just to be seen more and to show my expression to many more people and I am also a variety streamer so I like having a mixed communuty. But there are many artists who stream in the actual art/beauty categories (their main content) that have a hard time growing due to Twitch's lack in the discoverability towards all artists which is super unfair and just shows how little artists are appreciated on the platform no matter how much hard work they put in. Twitch used to be inclusive about art. I have been streaming for 5 years 4 months and when I first started on the platform, there was a category called "Creative" which I think you guys should bring back. You guys used to do contests and events too. It felt more welcoming. We were more appreciated back then, but now it feels like artists are just being smudged out of the picture. It's really sad to see how much time has passed but the platform is going back in reverse in my opinion. This needs to be fixed. Please add more easily accessed discoverability for artistic creators.
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bigfooott commented
Best case for me IMO is bringing back the game dev "game" and putting it under a new "Creative" category
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thenaaru commented
Artists already have a hard time being seen, and as a consumer I'd love to be able to find art streams easily rather than having to trawl through a bunch of other "irl" stuff to find them. In fact, I would probably watch more art streams on Twitch vs say, Picarto, if they had a dedicated category where I could find them.
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twitchnutzer101010101 commented
Yes
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KaleWesker commented
IRL has always been a bit of a catch-all for content that doesn't really fit anywhere else. Art deserves to be treated as its own category. Dumping artists in with all the Just Chatting folks is (quite frankly) demeaning because it falsely states that artists don't deserve to be recognized for their artistic talent.
The more that Twitch alienates the art community, the more likely they are to migrate to other platforms such as YouTube or Picarto. And that is not something that Twitch needs right now while the Big 4 of the music industry are putting pressure on everyone's backs.
If any form of management at Twitch sees this, I highly recommend that you show some respect to the incredible talent that makes the Art community so special by reinstating the Creative category and expanding on it with Digital, Traditional, Music and Crafts categories.
Also, it might be worth giving IRL a Cooking sub-category if you haven't already.