As a 6-year old channel, partner since last February, we are thankful for the opportunities Twitch gave us. However, we find this decision honestly disgusting, disappointing, and completely out of tune with what we thought Twitch stood for: the possibility of giving everybody to express their passions and create a space to call our own. With this decision, Twitch is basically saying out loud (not so much, though: at least an email, an announcement, would have been nice, wouldn't it?) that what we create every day is in fact not our own. It belongs to the corporations, just like 99% of the internet. We immediately disabled this accursed setting, but we fear it won't be enough. We believe that the only way to reverse this stupid decision would be to stop streaming altogether, stop giving Twitch the revenue from our subs and bits, and stop giving our soul to a network that, evidently, does not value it any more than a couple of bits to train AI. Such a heartbreaking decision. Twitch, do better. If you still can, that is.
As a 6-year old channel, partner since last February, we are thankful for the opportunities Twitch gave us. However, we find this decision honestly disgusting, disappointing, and completely out of tune with what we thought Twitch stood for: the possibility of giving everybody to express their passions and create a space to call our own. With this decision, Twitch is basically saying out loud (not so much, though: at least an email, an announcement, would have been nice, wouldn't it?) that what we create every day is in fact not our own. It belongs to the corporations, just like 99% of the internet. We immediately disabled this accursed setting, but we fear it won't be enough. We believe that the only way to reverse this stupid decision would be to stop streaming altogether, stop giving Twitch the revenue from our subs and bits, and stop giving our soul to a network that, evidently, does not value it any more than a couple of bits to train AI. Such a heartbreaking decision. Twitch, do better. If you still can, that is.