Stop Running Transphobic Ads On Trans People's Channels
I'm a trans person, and I keep getting ads on MY channel promoting giving money to someone who despises my existance. Someone using her vast amount of wealth, influence, and power to make us trans people feel unsafe just being alive, and insulting/lying about us online to stir the pot and create a toxic and violent environment for us to exist. I do not want these ads being shown to MY audience that was built on MY content. This platform promotes wanting diversity and inclusion, yet we keep getting ads like this shown on our accounts without our consent. Give us the freedom to chose what ads can play on our accounts to prevent this type of thing from happening. Thanks.
TragedyLink
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AlloftheSquids
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If y'all are going to have us tag our streams with content labels that allow for advertisers to choose not to run their ads on our channels, let us choose amongst the advertisers who remain what will run on our ad breaks. At the very least let us blacklist products or advertisers from being served to our communities. It's incredibly disingenuous to say you support diversity and inclusion when a channel for a persecuted minority is forced to serve ads that fuel products that directly attack that minority or fund its destruction.
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Dan_Yu
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Its literally the least you could do
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phroobin
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As a trans person in the UK who also streams on your platform (and who has an equally trans and queer audience), it's a real slap in the face to have adverts that promote work by an author whose transphobia is actively influencing policy in government and contributing to anti-trans rhetoric in the place that I live plastered across my streams in ad breaks.
If you insist on taking money for these adverts (as well as military and/or ICE adverts), at least let streamers choose what is and isn't shown to their communities.
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quartzcolada
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Strongly agree! Whether it be transphobia or gambling, I don’t want any of it promoted on my channel!
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ORiiPUP
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There's a lot of terrible ads I don't want shown on my channel. We really should be able to pick "sponsors" especially with all the terrible rhetoric. For goodness sake, there is literal military propaganda ads on this site.
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ToxicScolipede
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I strongly agree! I also see ads promoting things that go against the whole idea of diversity and inclusion on Twitch, and it’s extremely disheartening. Hopefully, we can get this seen and supported enough to where we can screen ads that we see or that go through our channels!