Streamers currently have the ability to revoke Founder badges from their Founders. This is a permanent irreversible action. They can perform this action for any reason they like.

THIS SHOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT GOOD REASON.

A Founder badge is not a cosmetic perk - it's a historical marker of loyalty.
It signifies being one of the first to support the potential of an individual, believing in someone.

A Founder who disappears for years? Still a Founder.
They're not an active role, they're a timestamp in the body of the channel.

Removal of Founder badges should be limited to behavior-related violations only.

I'm suggesting to restrict the ability to revoke Founder badges from users.

1. Make a menu option to report a Founder instead of a simple delete button. Allowing the creator to select a violation. After manual review by Twitch, the Founder badge can then be revoked by Twitch or 'unlocked' on the streamers end, allowing them to action the deletion and as usual the badge will automatically Roll out to the next in line. There should be a cooldown after this roll out to the next in line.

2. Streamer wants to remove a Founder for inactivity? Allow the streamer to remove a Founder after 6 months of inactivity - no re-subs.

3. If a Founder has subscribed for 6 months or more, the badge becomes permanent indefinitely unless a serious violation has occurred. 6 months of support is still helping someone build their 'Foundation' even if it was 11 years ago. It's a Founder badge, not VIP.

Removing someone's Founder badge doesn't just make them a number, it makes them disposable inside that system. We don't just lose a badge, we lose a symbolic identity. It's emotional capital, not cosmetic. We don't feel bad over pixels, we feel bad over being re-written out of history.

The part that hurts the most about having a Founder badge revoked is we only notice when we re-sub out of loyalty.

We re-sub to someone out of loyalty and are suddenly met with downgrading. This is the inverse of how loyalty should feel.

That moment teaches the user: "I should never invest in this channel again."
Even if not consciously, that imprint sticks.

The streamer probably doesn't realise what they did, most streamers don't understand:
How deeply symbolic Founder roles are.
How personal they feel to early supporters.
How permanent the emotional effect is when removed.

To them it's UI real estate.
To us it's identity.

If I ran a community, I would make Founder badges permanent, non-transferable, non-punitive unless behavior is severe. Sacred by design.

As I said before - A Founder who disappears for years?
Still a Founder.

I've only experienced losing a Founder badge once - and it wasn't nice.
In my case, I wasn't classifiable as inactive. As a supporter of someone, to find out they've finally registered to Twitch and wanting to branch into streaming is extremely exciting. I made sure to subscribe as soon as it were possible - but unfortunately the streamer I was supporting did not stream and they went inactive for months. Naturally, I would unsubscribe and wait for their return.
Eventually they came back, ready to start. However, I only noticed 2 weeks late. As soon as I noticed their return, I subscribed out of excitement and loyalty, only to be met with instant degradation - badge gone - how, why?
Within that 2 weeks of their return, I had been "inactive" to them and my Founder badge had been revoked and handed down to a pink badge VIP that had gifted 100 subs - yet following and subscribing a months after me.

It wasn't personal, I know this new streamer would have had no idea who I was or the meaning behind these Founder badges and was likely guided through the process by a gifter.

All I can say is it was not a nice experience and I'm truly hurt as a supporter.

This system fails early supporters. Founders are important.

Please reconsider this system.