Bits are the MOST beneficial form of income for streamers on Twitch. The donor pays the twitch fee when purchasing the bits, so the streamer gets the full amount, which is what the donor expects. If someone donates 100 bits the streamer gets $1.00. With Super Cheer if someone donates $1.00 the fee is coming out of that amount and the streamer only gets $0.76. If Twitch is looking to replace bits with Super Cheer, that is only going to hurt streamers livelihoods and the relationship between streamers and Twitch. We want to be able to stream on Twitch knowing that we can support ourselves. With the Sub split news recently coming out, along with already having to use outside sources to make money, we just want to be able to stream to our communities and continue cultivating a space where people belong, without burning out. Please reconsider the replacement.

I'd suggest a tool so mods could accept or deny a bit message.

It happens that your streamer wants to roleplay but the chat is doing metagaming, right? Well, I used to think that sub mode or emote mode could've solved it, but there is always that enlightned user who sends bits and messes it up.

This case is the softiest. You also have hateful donos or spam that banning is not enough because if text-to-speech is enabled, the streamer ends up knowing.

At first my idea was to put all bits messages in automod queue so mods read them, accept them or not, but it's true that some streamers receive hundreds of donations so it could really be annoying.

So my final plan is to have a switch that allow the moderators:

1. Have control over all bit messages,
2. Have control over messages with banned words,
3. Not have control over bits at all.

Of course, if message is rejected, they get their bits back.

And this would be managed by the channel's owner.

Thank you and have a nice day!

Keep Bits.
That's it. That's the Post.
Seeing this new Cheering Feature come back has me extremely worried they will get rid of them alongside all of their amazing features such as, but not limited to:
- Bit Emotes
- Bit Badges
- Custom Alerts
- Custom Amounts to Cheer
- Integration with other Channel bots (f.e. StreamElements Channel Points)

Bits has been a core feature and source of income for me as a streamer, but also impacts my viewer experience heavily. Bit Alerts / Badges and Emotes are great motivators for people to support the Streamer.

I really wish we at least have the option to keep the old cheering feature.

Thanks so much.

I did not want to be part of the Twitch Cheering Experiment. I am a small streamer and rely heavily on my stream alerts gimmicks to fund raise. The Cheering Experiment has massively reduced my income and the platform takes a larger cut and it doesn't even do anything cool when someone donates.

Twitch sent a stealthy email on the 20th and only gave us til the 24th to opt out but I only found out yesterday. I can safely say I don't want to be part of the experiment and would like to opt out immediately. There should be a button to opt out. I can't even get support to manually remove me.

Really don't like the short notice and not being able to opt out.

As a part of our efforts to continually improve our products and creators and viewers build communities together, we are testing several possible updates to the Cheering experience. As a part of this effort, we are testing one of three prototype Cheering updates to a small number of hand-selected channels in order to observe how communities respond and interact with the feature. These three updates are:

• Cheer with Screenshot: viewers can add a creator-selected image to their Cheer to increase the expressiveness of their Cheer in chat.
• Cheer Message Size: viewers can choose how large their Cheer message will appear in chat based on the amount of Bits they use.
• Bits Rain: each Cheer will result in a rain of Bits gems over chat, the intensity of which is determined by the amount of Bits used.

These changes are intended to help us learn how new features like these might improve the experience of Cheering. They will be available only for a short period of time, and will not be expanded more broadly. If you encounter a channel where one of these experiences is available, please feel free to provide your feedback below.

First of all, I would like to state that I am only posting this here because I couldn't find any other media to convey my feedback to Twitch about the matter. This page looks more like an "ideas" page than a feedback page, but as there aren't any feedback media, I will write about it here. (The ticket page auto-directs users here when the option "feedback" is selected)

After the recent Twitch data leak, some users have noticed unusual bits activity in some small streamers' data in the Turkish community. After a short while, more data were discovered and a whole money laundering scandal was uncovered. It was discovered that some small streamers were using the bits system to launder money by working with credit card thieves who use stolen credit cards to purchase bits, send them to said streamers and receive half the revenue. The rabbit hole goes deeper and deeper which is why I can't write the whole story down here but a google search should do the trick for those who want to learn more...

What I want to stress on at the moment is Twitch's attitude on the event. Let alone take action on streamers who took part in criminal activity (even those who admitted to it live on stream), Twitch did not even acknowledge the situation in any shape or form. There was a Twitter hashtag (#temiztwitch), which even went globally trending. Many big streamers quit streaming on the platform for 5 days in protest and Twitch still did not respond.

Coming to the actual "feedback" and the purpose of this post; I, as a frequent Twitch user, don't want to support such a corporation that does not take action to improve their platform or support those who want to. I understand that taking action on such matters can be very difficult as a corporation. However, I don't buy it as an excuse in the situation where about 10 million USD were laundered. By not receiving any response from Twitch, I feel as if the Turkish community is not being taken seriously at all, getting ignored because Turkish streamers do not generate as much revenue as global or english-speaking streamers... As a Turkish user, I feel disappointed and expect a response about the situation.

Finally, thanks to the community team in advance for checking in the situation.(at least I hope they do). And I hope this post just does not get deleted. If I posted this on the wrong sub/platform, please show me where to leave my feedback properly.

I just purchased 1500 bits ($15 to streamer) for $19.95 -- a $4.95 markup. This made me think about the amount of bit donations vs. PayPal donations I've seen over the years, and the fees associated with PayPal are much more attractive.

Bits however are very interactive and entertaining. The novelty of getting a bit badge and having your cheer posted at the top of the chat is likely a reason why people choose to pay the premium. That being said, for every person that buys bits, the other person donates on PayPal because its cheaper. If Twitch wants to maximize bit revenue, they need to lower the margin from ~20% to as low as 5-6%. For comparison, PayPal charges 3.6%. I would happily pay double the premium for the novelty and enjoyment of bits over paypal if it wasn't so ridiculously marked up.

Why were bits removed from poll usage?!?

I use polls for viewer watch party. The polls are for what genre and movies will be played at the time of the watch party. I allow extra votes to be cast using bits. I choose bits because it deters trolling. I choose 10 bits per upvote but depending on the other types of polls the amount can go up or down.

I can not use channel points because some of my viewers have over 300k and could potentially spam. Voting for something that is not necessarily an mutually beneficial outcome for all viewers.

Bit voting also allows another way to support the streamer. There have been plenty requests to extend the time of polls. But I don’t think anyone has ever said remove bit voting as it is streamer choice on rather to use bits or channel points.

Please return the option to use bits for extra votes in polls exactly how it was before. There weren’t any issues with functionality or optimization of bit usage. While you’re returning polls to their glory, please extend polls to be up to 24 hours. (Like cost of voting, Streamer inputs desired time).

Thank you for your consideration.

Giving content creators bits to pass out in channel like channel points would help build hype trains. When viewers see bits used, they then use bits also. Same for stickers etc. Monkey see monkey do. Allowing creators to give away bits that don't net any real value will allow viewers to feel involved, spend those bits and then buy real bits to spend. It would get others lurking to spend bits also. Creating more revenue for twitch and content creators. It's just like if you have 50 viewers, 50 more will show up to see what's happening. It's human nature. Call it a social experiment but it'll work and everyone will be happy with this bit generation idea.

I think that the bits of Twitch's own currency should remain and that the revenue should only be taken by Twitch, so that the streamers can keep the subscriptions as a source of income for themselves. Since taxes in Germany or England are very high, it is difficult to be able to get anything from them. At least for small streamers who have an affiliate but don't earn more than $ 1000 to say they live off it. The Twitch fixes on a source of income and says that Twitch gets and the rest of the little streamers. And that the US taxes should only be calculated when a really high income can be achieved. So that it can be read from a bar