Technology

Twitch is overly hostile with its own subscriber base and doesn't pay nearly as much as YouTube. {Recent business decisions](https://digiday.com/marketing/how-twitch-lost-its-grip-on-and-way-with-the-streaming-community/) are really causing it to bleed streamers to other platforms, mostly YouTube.

Twitch takes 50% revenue. Youtube takes 30%. Twitch has an overly strict TOS to stay relatively kid-friendly. Twitch recently tried to limit content creators from showcasing sponsors in their own videos, but I think they backed away from that plan. Basically, it's at the fully enshittified stage at this point.

Apparently, there's a new twitch competitor, Kick, backed by an online gambling company, which I even worse. They have their content creators do gambling streams where the odds are modified to make it look like their games pay out more. And they explicitly promote bigots and fascists on their platform.

I disagree that it's a "shithole", but it does have its own set of problems. In particular, they get a lot of flack for not giving creators a better revenue split. They also have issues with music DMCA, even if the music is playing in-game. If Twitch detects copyrighted music in a VOD, it will straight up mute the whole section of the VOD's audio.

~~elon musk purchased it and laid off a ton of staff over time, leading twitter to be very poorly moderated and also have many technical glitches after that~~

edit: oops I'm an idiot. I thought that said twitter.