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Twitch is going to stream both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions to audiences this year. Not only that, but you can stream the Conventions to your own stream while providing your own commentary to your community.If you know anything about the absolute horrendous cesspool of hell that the Twitch chat can end up being for large events, you'll understand why this is already a bad idea to begin with. Let's throw in politics on top of it, a topic that most streamers ban from their chats to begin with, for obvious reasons, and you'll begin to understand why this might be the worst idea in the history of live streams.
We also encourage you to create your own experience and host your own community conversations in one of two ways:
First, Host Mode is a wonderful way to gather your community around a channel’s live video. We encourage you to host the Republican National Convention (/GOPconvention) on your channel so you can have a more productive and valuable political discussion with your community.
Second, the Democratic National Convention has offered Twitch broadcasters the rights to co-stream the event. Set your broadcast game to “DNC 2016” and provide your own commentary throughout the event. Both Twitch and the RNC made extensive efforts to bring co-streaming to the Republican National Convention as well, but ultimately we were bested by redtape.
First, Host Mode is a wonderful way to gather your community around a channel’s live video. We encourage you to host the Republican National Convention (/GOPconvention) on your channel so you can have a more productive and valuable political discussion with your community.
Second, the Democratic National Convention has offered Twitch broadcasters the rights to co-stream the event. Set your broadcast game to “DNC 2016” and provide your own commentary throughout the event. Both Twitch and the RNC made extensive efforts to bring co-streaming to the Republican National Convention as well, but ultimately we were bested by redtape.
Twitch also made some new emotes for this, including yet another variation on the Kappa emote.
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Excuse me while I go throw up over the idea of all of this.
Twitch, for all the town hall meetings you do, you don't seem to have any clue what kind of audience you have. Have fun with escalated situations after opening this can of worms.