While I do understand the need for the changes allowing for a DJ category and also the perks of there being a DJ category - variety streamers who DJ and do other types of streams seemingly get left in more confusion. Being forced to separate your channel into multiple channels when you've built an audience on being a variety streamer doesn't seem fair - however if the revenue percentage fees for the DJs is channel wide and not based on categories or even whether you're a DJ who even plays copywritten music - it effectively means even non DJ streams my channel would do would also be subjected to the same fees even though they don't include music at all. I feel like there needs to be a better solution for that than making another channel when your existing one was built up for multiple things. It means effectively starting over for both things. There has to be a way to filter out funds generated per stream and take fees based on categories in the same way you can view your stats on how much revenue came through for each stream. If someone only DJs one day a week but games the rest of the time, it seems incredibly unfair that they'd either need to make a whole new channel for DJing and rebuild or choose to give up DJing or gaming to keep the same channel.

I don't know what a best option would be, and I won't complain about the efforts to reach a somewhat reasonable solution for DJ stuff but I feel like the solution as existing does not meet the needs of the streaming community as a whole effectively enough. It creates additional confusion that is unnecessary, and it leaves those of us who don't only DJ and have a community based around that variety having to make some decisions that were never supposed to be part of it. The cool thing about twitch was the freedom to do whatever kind of stream I wanted depending on how I felt - sometimes games, sometimes DJing, sometimes just chatting. Now I have to pick a lane. No other category of streamer is being forced to make multiple pages or pick a lane. If I wanted an only DJ page for streaming I'd have paid the membership fee to stream on mixcloud or continued doing so in private server set ups as I did prior to pandemic. But also, I did come to twitch because I could DJ ALSO.

Either finding a way to filter out categories that aren't DJ and exempt them from from additional fees or simplifying the DJ situation and making the DJ category a membership option with a monthly subscription that allows you to stream as a DJ unencumbered while also being able to continue being a variety streamer seems to be a better solution that could better benefit more people.