Many Twitch streamers are receiving more and more hateful and harassing messages, and are calling for a strike from users and streamers. They want Twitch to start taking action so that hate towards streamers is reduced.
A raids is a word in the Twitch vocabulary that indicates when a streamer sends his followers to watch another stream. This is done to give small streamers a little support when a larger one ends their broadcast. But many users are reporting that raids are being used to send hate messages.
Strike for Twitch to react to hatred
Through the hashtag on social networks #ADayOfftwitch, they want to convey to Twitch that there are more and more raids towards streamers in order to spread homophobic, racist, transphobic, macho messages, or making comments about their physical appearance, among others. This is why for September 1, a streamer strike has been called on Twitch, and that also concerns viewers.
How to collaborate in the Twitch strike if you are a mere spectator? Simply, not entering the page throughout the day. Already in the next stream you can tell your loyal viewers why you did not stream the day before.The strike wants to show the absence of viewers who repudiate the fact that there are more and more raids of hate towards small and minority streamers .
If you are a streamer, to support the strike you simply have to not broadcast anything during the 1st of September. During that time, do not broadcast anything and there will be much less content for users, who will have much less content to choose from. As with any strike, the idea is that through the absence of work, the message is sent asking for better conditions, in this case it would be the one with the greatest control over hate messages and raids on Twitch; So that trying to make an impact on the metrics and Twitch, they take this problem that affects a large part of their community.
Source: the verge
