The Twitch layoffs are just a part of the more than 9,000 positions eliminated from Amazon today.

On Monday, Amazon announced plans to cut another 9,000 positions from areas including Amazon Web Services (AWS), human resources, advertising, and Twitch. The additional 9,000 layoffs are planned to be completed by the end of April and follow the 18,000 people that have already been laid off from Amazon from December 2022 through January 2023.

Amazon says that these layoffs...

It was a really long step.

Emmett Shear, the founder and CEO of Twitch is stepping down from his position after 16 years with the streaming focused company. He will be replaced by president Dan Clancy effective immediately.

Shear founded Twitch back in October of 2006. The site itself began as a reality focused streaming platform named Justin.tv, named after another co-founder, Justin Kan. Justin.tv was made to document Kan's life. In 2013, Shear eventually transformed...

A new "shield mode" is Twitch's latest effort to help stop harassment.

Twitch, the live streaming platform owned by Amazon, is again trying to curtail harassment campaigns that have been aptly named "hate raids." This is where some loser gets a large number of people to mass "attack" a target, usually a streamer that is actively streaming, with chat spam that typically consists of personal attacks, slurs, and even personal information.

The...

You'll get 50% and you'll like it.

Just yesterday, Twitch scored a few brownie points when they said they were going to ban some gambling on the streaming platform. It wasn't much but at least it was something positive. Today, whatever positivity remained was tossed out the window when Twitch flatly refused to increase streamer revenue share.

A petition signed by over 22,000 Twitch streamers and viewers sought to increase the subscription revenue share from 50/50 to 70/30...

There is still much room for improvement here.

For some time now, gambling on Twitch lived in this nebulous grey zone where Twitch staff often turned a blind eye to it so long as certain restrictions were adhered to. Things such as referral codes to sites that include gambling were verboten, but streamers often found ways around this while they gambled on stream.

Allowing gambling on the platform has often been hotly debated from both streamers and viewers alike. Now,...

Just another typical weekend here in the States.

On Saturday, May 14 a mass shooting took place in Buffalo, New York. This tragic event where an 18-year-old white male shot and killed at least 10 people was reportedly planned on Discord and livestreamed on Twitch.

Twitch pulled the livestream from their site within about two minutes of it going live. However, that was still enough time for people to pull recordings of the footage and moving it on to other platforms. Some...

Twitch is considering changes to how it pays their top talent.

A new report by Bloomberg suggests that Twitch, the Amazon owned streaming website, is looking at potential changes to payout amounts for streamers while also increasing the number of ads that viewers see. The Bloomberg report cites "people familiar with the planning" at Twitch.

This potential update suggests that Twitch will offer more incentives for streamers to run ads for their viewers, while...

Twitch being horny on main.

Late last year, Twitch began to test a system that would allow viewers to pay real money to boost a streamer's channel to Twitch's main page. This would perhaps give the streamer some added exposure and help their channel grow. It was also obviously an easy way for Twitch (ie: Amazon) to pull in even more money.

Today, that grand experiment came to a predictable end. Viewers were using this boost feature to push channels to the main page of...

A reason for his initial ban still wasn't provided.

Guy Beahm, aka Dr Disrespect, was permanently banned from Twitch back in June 2020. At the time, nobody in the public had any knowledge as to why the two-timer was banned. Though we still don't know why he was permanently banned, we at least arrived at a point where we can safely say the battle between Twitch and Beahm has come to an end.

In 2021, Beahm filed a lawsuit against Twitch claiming that the loss of his channel...

Twitch, like most every other sane person, is tired of the group's lies.

Twitch just updated their community guidelines with a new section aimed at weeding out those who spread "harmful misinformation." The new section is listed as "Harmful Misinformation Actors" and some streamers have already gotten hit with the ban hammer as a result of this new policy update.

Twitch says that this policy probably isn't going to "impact you or the streamers...

Will we get some details and a look at the next-gen update for the game?

CD Projekt Red announced a special Cyberpunk 2077 stream set for tomorrow, February 15. This stream will begin at 10AM (ET) over on Twitch.

Details about what will be discussed, but the going theory is that they will talk about the upcoming PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S release of the game. It is also possible that we will hear about the game's first paid DLC expansion.

The studio...

An announcement of future announcements.

Saber Interactive just sent along an email saying that they will be revealing "multiple new games at The Game Awards and the Twitch Winter Gathering" this week. The Game Awards will air on Thursday, December 9 at 8PM (ET) on just about every major streaming platform (not Netflix) out there. The Twitch Winter Gathering will take place on Friday at 4:50PM (ET) on Twitch.

Saber Interactive states that The Game Awards will...

The adult site is calling upon developers to add to their list of supported titles.

The adult cam site Chaturbate just announced that they are opening their streaming platform up to support various video games. Models there can now select from a list of pre-approved titles to play for their fans. They are only allowing games that have been pre-approved or those that have the developer's permission to be streamed. To that end, Chaturbate is calling upon developers to add their game...

When simply banning them isn't enough.

Twitch is taking the fight against users involved in the recent hate raids to court. The company is suing two users for their part in the hate raids that have targeted marginalized streamers. WIRED reports that Twitch filed the lawsuits on Thursday, September 9 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

The lawsuit has been filed against Twitch users Cruzzcontrol and CreatineOverdose. Twitch believes that these...