Twitch Has Become an Embarrassment

[@DimitriMonroe]

There is Twitch Staff outside of my house

[@Snakedude4life]

Consume them.

[@McBanditHope]

Take my Groza, DO A CRIME

[@kaisuuni]

Invite them in. They’re weak. Destruction is their destiny. Devour them. You’ll have dinner for at least a week.

[@cerebraldreams4738]

I wish you would post more. 🙂

[@leonlegend]

Show them your videos. Maybe then they'll realise what good content looks like.

[@GameApologist]

DIMITRI IS BACK

[@DimitriMonroe]

I am always watching 👁

[@NewOctopus52]

@@DimitriMonroe Hey Boss!

[@otto_jk]

Or is he front?

[@NewOctopus52]

@@otto_jk Now your asking the real q's? 🤔

[@goukeban6197]

@@DimitriMonroe But who watches the watchboi?

[@yosh0wnd]

The reason Twitch is in such a sorry state is because there is no incentive for creativity. We see it in the biggest streamers jumping on the latest hit video game title, to endless drama farming, to blandly copying the latest "metas" that you mentioned in this video. When your site is supposedly built off of creators and they stop creating anything the webiste and communtiy cuilt around it are going to falter as well.

[@CraftyArts]

It's amusing to see how streamed New World was for a few months and now we are seeing the same thing with elder ring. And I'm over here like...let's play a game from 1998

[@krimsonkatt]

@@CraftyArts Twitch streamers got paid by Amazon to play New World, while Elden Ring is legitimately popular and has been hyped for years. There's a big difference.

[@twooty2148]

Mizkif had said this exact thing before,

[@makorays]

honestly the main reason i switched over from twitch to youtube streaming was the fact that twitch takes *50%* of all money from subscriptions and bits. it's not even so much that i want more money from it for myself (of course, that's still a part of it), it's mostly just that i find it insulting that someone would want to support their favorite streamer with $5 a month and then have HALF of all the money they've ever given to them go right to bezos' pockets. absolutely robbery. the lack of discoverability and the way it prioritizes already big channels rather than up and coming ones in terms of where it directs viewers also sucks. i never had to deal with any of these arbitrary rule enforcements but i also feel bad for everyone who does.

[@GameyRaccoon]

Haha femboy crossover

[@blues4509]

Bless you for sifting through the wastebin of the internet to gather all of this footage. Great video and welcome back, Dimitri :)

[@TheRikuofDarkness]

The mic licking was uncomfortable. Hate these people.

[@ClayBenTreeceJr.]

I Agree

[@theopulentone1650]

It's super gross. They look like they're mentally ill doing that.

[@Kyubee5136]

The “TV Meta” is so frustrating. Especially because KZbin already figured this out in 2007 when Viacom sued KZbin for $1 Billion. That was 15 years ago. Twitch has KZbin as a example of what not to do and still makes the same mistakes. It will take a multibillion dollar company taking Twitch to court for it to sink in. Reaction content is hard to mess up. I watch movies with friends and we don’t just sit there in complete silence but also don’t talk over the whole movie either. Then after we finish we discuss what we just watched. What we liked, disliked, initial predictions, and explaining stuff if one of us didn’t understand a part. I had a friend explain The Shining to me before and it was fun. It’s the same thing with reaction videos. Treat it like a book club. Have some kind of discussion with the audience.

[@007MrYang]

To this day, I still don't understand why Hasan got that popular in the first place. The dude's insane, so I guess his audience must be too.

[@ldskjfhslkjdhflkjdhf]

He's very attractive and his politics are broadly appealing to superficial people. It's not hard to get.

[@otto_jk]

@@ldskjfhslkjdhflkjdhf yeah... He's a milk toast leftists himbo. His appeal is clear although I really don't like him because I find him boring and lacking in intellectual content.

[@crimsoncross8823]

@@ldskjfhslkjdhflkjdhf basically PC Principal from South Park in real life….

[@otto_jk]

@@crimsoncross8823 not really there's a difference between Jersey shore himbo and an Oakley sunglasses himbo

[@007MrYang]

@@ldskjfhslkjdhflkjdhf people consider him attractive!?

[@NoraNoita]

Dimi, the reason you're banned is because, obviously, you didn't show your holes. You still have dignity.

[@Snakedude4life]

Twitch has a a lot of problems and no clear way out of it. They could begin enforcing the rules equally but they’ll lose the money makers over night. They could just codify it but they’ll get raked for saying the quiet part out loud. It’s a difficult position and everyone at Twitch deserves it. 🎩 🐍no step on snek! 🇺🇸🇭🇰

[@fireball9670]

Twitch messed with the wrong alpha male.

[@serily4524]

wat

[@Shezmen88]

Thank you for making this video.

[@dj66800]

FINALLY SOMEONE CALLS OUT FEXTRALIFE, I HATE THAT VIEWBOTTING EMBED SHIT BUT TWITCH ENOURCAGES IT I FUCKING HATE THAT SO MUCH I hate that they became the 'de-factor' dark souls wiki despite being an ugly, ad-filled piece of shit with a horrible layout, that started off by stealing most of their wiki pages word for word from other wikis.

[@Kardfogu]

Twitch is fairly consistent in pretending to be a game streaming service, but running softcore porn. The rule: if a camgirl brings in enough money, she's a keeper. The only way these camgirls could get banned from Twitch if they tried - and succesfully managed to - evade Twitch taking its cut from the income. Gamers are just tolerated on Twitch as part of the public image. This way they can avoid age restrictions and stream softcore porn to all ages, including children...

[@ClayBenTreeceJr.]

If you are a serious content creator and streamer. KZbin is where you want to be if you want to be treated seriously.

[@Kardfogu]

@@ClayBenTreeceJr. It's not that simple sadly, KZbin doesn't take matters seriously either. Meanwhile Twitch doesn't apply its policies on a regular basis and just randomly picks small content creators to punish, KZbin does the opposite, throws buggy automatic content checks at you and if that doesn't work, you're on your own, KZbin won't let you talk with the support to find out what the heck is going on. In reality, both major live-streaming service sucks, they just suck at wildly different things.

[@AxelWedstar411]

Making up for that long absence with 40+ minute videos? I ain't complaining.

[@DimitriMonroe]

2 months is short for me ! It helped that I didn't have to play through an rpg 5 times for this one.

[@UBvtuber]

I mean to be fair, video essays / exposes like this are crack to algorithm-chan, even if you don't post often.

[@DimitriMonroe]

Yea I'm assuming this one is being sent to way more people then my last video. It's just funny from my perspective lol

[@Captaind38]

had no idea it was this bad thought it was just memes or hyperbol. very informative. good video

[@arachnidsLor]

what is it about being a twitch mod, reddit mod or discord mod that turns people into such power drunk lunatics?

[@PhyreI3ird]

It's weirdly common in management positions in actual workplaces. The more incompetent of a self-important busybody/control freak someone is as a person, the more likely they are to want these kinds of positions where they can exert power/"power" over others. It's really funny when it comes to unpaid moderators though. The fact that they make the online world their ENTIRE world to that level is so tragic that it circles right back around to fucking hilarity.

[@meansbusiness8063]

This is a incredibly accurate visual representation of how visually and mentally biased twitch and it's owners are. Horrible to see explaining as much as you did and getting banned indefinitely for that image you posted. It's inexcusable.

[@keimmanuel]

I'm gonna be honest, I also have a very negative view of twitch, and I find it extremely frustrating that 0 creativity gets rewarded in their corrupt system, but I'd still wanna try streaming, if my depressed ass would allow it some day. Mostly because I like the idea of trying to do something creative that actively goes against the grain and the most common "meta", but also because it seems genuinely cool to build a community that would be that attuned to my tastes. I don't know if I'll ever have the bolas to do it though. But I can dream right? Great video dude, I hope it's very successful, I find that it voices pretty much all the gripes that people have with twitch, while not coming off as abrasive or misinformed. Also great to see you around here again. I missed your voice -no homo- -yes homo-

[@MeatMonsterMan]

This video aged extremely well.

[@lumenairelorewing]

Funny to come back to this video now, given more recent events with Twitch. Gotta enjoy watching the purple site tumble over themselves again and again even now.

[@biscuitslash5443]

I've recently taken up Twitch streaming but this video has really made me realise that I only choose Twitch is because I like the features such as raids, channel points, polls, etc. That and it at least does something to help smaller streamers, with that "Recommended smaller communities" section. But really, it just feels like the best streaming platform out of many terrible options. Much like KZbin with videos, I'm waiting for a more sensible and well kept streaming platform than Twitch, and deep down I know it'll never happen. Twitch doesn't even need to change much fix the controversies. Just enforce the rules properly and evenly without being quick to ban. If they lose those controversial streamers, then just focus on promoting and sharing those who actually care for TOS. Can't bring myself to stream on KZbin. I've heard all about how mentally damaging the algorithms are, and I've suffered through it's constant downwards spiral for 14 years. Guess based on that, Twitch will never improve unless a decent competitor shows up. Money hungry companies will get away with whatever if it fills their pockets.

[@EmmaBedeian]

People licking a microphone makes me want to puke

[@nanto_naku]

I missed your videos so much! Glad to have you back

[@SharlaBlades]

This video has confirmed many things I've thought about Twitch for years. Tha k you.

[@Sonicfan4467]

Babe, wake up, Dimitri uploaded

[@QuintusCunctator]

Good God, the short twitch clips you've shown were enough to make my skin crawl, I can't imagine what it takes to sift through hours of this garbage to gather material for a video like this. Anyway, since you've asked what's even the point of this video... Well, this video may not change anything in the grand scheme of things, but rest assured, it exposed someone like me (who isn't following any streamer) to a culture subset I didn't even know existed, and to the problems it carries over. So, thanks a lot!

[@dominicperez3777]

Twitch: Not even once.

[@creamgravy1]

Idk if it was KZbin or Twitch, but didn't someone get a 3 day ban because someone literally stole their car while they were streaming?

[@DimitriMonroe]

Yup ! That was Twitch.

[@MegaRadarOfficial]

oh god not the deer lady again!

[@DimitriMonroe]

Your people

[@MegaRadarOfficial]

@@DimitriMonroe TnT dont relate her to me not like this

[@dominodart2013]

Holy shit you’re back Dimi!!! I would’ve imagined that you’d make a video like this eventually!! Love your videos! I can’t wait to finish this one too! ❤️❤️

[@GameBooAdvancePlus]

I was glued to the screen the entire time. Good video. Honestly I can see Twitch falling apart spectacularly within the next two years, their crimes and negligence will come crashing down the second anyone on the inside starts whistelblowing.

[@meeksuh6991]

Really enjoyed this one. Great work, Dimitri!

[@DimitriMonroe]

Glad you enjoyed it !

[@snekeater9858]

wait- people play video games on twitch?

[@Sakis_Husband]

I wish I could switch to KZbin honestly, but I really really like the support Twitch has for channel customization. Twitch is just so infuriating in so many ways. But if I swtiched to KZbin, I'd lose so many things, like emotes and stuff.

[@DimitriMonroe]

KZbin has emotes, the main thing it's missing is gift memberships and something more akin to bits, that being said when your established on twitch I understand not switching. Theres to much on the line. Bigger creators are the ones who can afford to do something and as stated we are seeing the odd case of that now

[@Sakis_Husband]

@@DimitriMonroe I know KZbin has emotes and stuff, but the bar is much, much higher than Twitch allows. I personally am established on Twitch but funnily enough if I swapped over to KZbin I'd also technically have an already established viewership too, just because the game I stream mainly has like, nobody of my skill caliber playing it, if anyone even was playing it on here.

[@HimeTakamura]

inb4 a streamer watches this entire video on stream without commentary

[@WanderingNephilim]

I was planning on getting back into streaming again, debating whether to go back to Twitch or start anew on KZbin, and you reminded me some of the many reasons why I stopped using Twitch with this videos.

[@NekoThaky]

There were some things that I have learned about what's wrong with twitch, such as the creators who put only fans links in their subscriber messages.

[@ChrisBackofen]

A cause of these issues is that platforms (Twitch, KZbin) benefit tremendously from uneven power dynamics; in this case, by selling people on the dream that "you can make a living making video content!" while not taking these people on as formal employees, or being responsible for adhering to employee protection laws. It's a digital analog to the issues with gig economy businesses. Companies benefit from this uneven power dynamic and selective enforcement; they don't have to spend time/money justifying behavior or ensuring it's consistent, and they can prop up money-makers while tossing problematic or unprofitable actors. And that's totally legal private corporation behavior, when not specifically counteracted by protective legislation. Personally, I believe the root issue is that, as a society, we haven't defined standards for equitable behavior (which companies ought to be beholden to) or protected, acceptable public behaviors (which people could not be punished for, without opening companies up to overwhelming legal liability).

[@Getlucky12]

Hey this was a great video, before the TV Meta I always thought Twitch couldn't go any lower, boy was I wrong. I'm wondering if a protected streamer will ever do anything so bad that Twitch has no choice but to ban them forever, not sure what that would be though, I always thought it would be streaming Viacom content but clearly that's only a 2-day ban.

[@crimsoncross8823]

Been awhile, loved your localization video so I’m pretty excited

[@nightly6729]

Really great video! Twitch is such a cesspool.

[@ShRkDa]

I gotta say, seeing the clips with those ASMR ear-things getting licked and stuff made me kinda gag just a little bit

[@fork00000]

whole idea of streaming seems to be pointless at this stage without a pre existing following countless ways for someone to utilize the medium in a way that has not been done before but absolutely no reason to actually do so with how the cards are stacked

[@stock6600]

29:05 Cameo of snaffuu The Based, 11 months sub of Hasan, who still had enough balls and commons sense to call him out. Be like snaffuu.

[@MeatMonsterMan]

Oh, a nod to Papa Gundam? Very cultured.

[@HexManiacQuinn]

Yeah I really have only one streamer I usually catch once every week, subbed through Prime. It's a special occasion if I spend any other time and/or money through Twitch, and I'd never return if that same guy left. I want to support sites like Twitch as little as possible until when or if they sort themselves out.

[@carlospitteri3146]

Omg seeing lowtiergod not on troll channels? What the hell this is surreal

[@KeyBladeMaster-Dan]

Always a good day when this channel uploads ^__^

[@CraftyArts]

40:29 the resistance to even adding that was them low key acknowledging that those streamers would be targeted and they were and twitch does fuk all about it. Also amazing the top earners turned out to be people like MoistCritical and Destiny

[@Sleetysleetman]

God tier video. Whenever a new Dimitri video pops up I know it's going to be based.

[@freaknr1]

Excellent work Dimitri. This amount of work deserves way more views, and I'm sorry that I didn't notice this upload until today. Keep up the good work!

[@sunofpearl89]

Underrated channel. Thank you for the video.

[@kingdaveth5391]

Well, well, well, looks like the cute boy uploaded a video :P

[@serse8455]

Italian twitch is pretty nice (or pog, as the kids say). The solution is to stream in some waky ass language american mods can't understand

[@Netist_]

I don't use Twitch. Never really have. Don't intend to start. I'll survive somehow.

[@trulymrword]

When Twitch inevitably collapses, the new meta there would be who can garner the most sympathy as they were all wittle puppets dancing for big stream.

[@TheDigworks]

i remember when wubby talked about cinnpie, i went down a whole rabbit hole did not know the smash community had been tainted like it has. it does make me wonder if it was talked more publically would she face consequences?

[@joeytomsxd7986]

Itsagundam in the first 2 minutes I'm here for it

[@ceal689]

Amazing video as always, a perfect video to summarize Twitch’s awful behaviour, again great work

[@Dinosaurwith42heads]

Anytime anything goes corport the corruption begins

[@thotsi]

I miss the internet.

[@edhenshuusha4666]

It's like a challenge

[@acidpain6059]

LTG is low tier cringe dawg ngl

[@lashghost]

Love watching your videos, hope you are keeping well

[@boneman-calciumenjoyer8290]

Hmm, back in my day, we went to the brothel to see the ladies of the night. Seems they went to twitch since then... and here I thought it was for posting videogame live streams, silly me.

[@antisocialjustice]

Fantastic video Dimitri

[@DimitriMonroe]

Thank you !!

[@docchoc2407]

i sometimes think of trying out making content for twitch instead of youtube cus of the casualisation of the site, but now i don't know, no dislikes, youtube shorts looking real good rn

[@emojisarepurecancer8097]

Some streamers are more equal than others

[@bobtower66]

I don't even bother with twitch anymore. There are way more quality streamers/video creators on KZbin.

[@Wutever]

the reason most of these streamers ( and many others ) delete there vods is actually cause of dmca robots scrubbing through vods from the music industry to spam dmca anything they can. since this started happening its actually generally viewed as dangerous to keep vods on twitch whatsoever and also why nowadays its pretty common practise to see people with newly made stream vod youtube channels amoung gaming streamers who foxus on youtube content from there streams.

[@DimitriMonroe]

This was a thing far before that incident, and I talk about the dmca situation in earlier point in the video.

[@Wutever]

@@DimitriMonroe must of missed that. either way great video.

[@DimitriMonroe]

@@Wutever thank you !

[@braindeadporter]

If twitch has been so corrupt, why haven't streamers tried to unionize. That way streamers who get caught up in the platform's hypocrisy can have a means to talk to those in charge and have a constructed means to get answers.

[@CraftyArts]

I got associate last year and there is just no audience unless you have the means to do something elaborate. Or you're already popular. Try doing live commentary on KZbin videos on twitch now or playing video games.

[@gsuaveyt]

Thanks for the free shoutout my guy

[@mysmallnoman]

HE IS BACK

[@AlmantasKli]

New dimitri vid, less go!

[@Epsidawn]

Oh you just KNOW this'll be a spicy one!!!!!!

[@MRMADASSASSINx]

Hasan's face just puts me in a bad mood.

[@actualnotanewbie]

One issue is that these streamers are burnt out and are afraid to say so, and take a break. Hasanabi often coasts and doesn't react when he's burnt out, but he's also known for pausing every few seconds and turning a 5 minute PragerU video into a 1 hour reaction

[@MrGrimdek]

Aight. Imagine blaming the substitute teacher for the actual teacher's shit lesson given lmfao

[@etrs]

welcome back dimi :)

[@WraxTV]

Good stuff, a shame it was only just now recommended to me.

[@ericquiabazza2608]

29:00 COME ON! The least you can do is name the channel or say "Go watch the video" so the algorithm will check it!

[@TheLastSoundNL]

My role is a Hasan stan. ahem NO that's not true1!! it was 13 words. Broooo! He needs to eat and go to the toilet too! Do you want him to die!?! Lol he said he wouldn't react to Jay anymore. Just react harder again.... Bro... * end scene bow * How did I do?

[@DimitriMonroe]

Very convincing, I nearly believed you were mentally ill zoomer.

[@roonkolos]

Theres a name I didn't expect to see I my notifs

[@seanboglio3605]

19:00 HE, you mean HE was.

[@MakeLoveNotWar687]

Oh it keeps getting worse

[@silviainsertsurnamehere9620]

More like Twatch lmao

[@Eon_Kain]

Dimitri Aris fan? Hey Alright.

[@aramondehasashi3324]

Yeah I forget how popular Aris is lol

[@unkown34x33]

But on a serious note, twitch is tricky but many girls sucks the staff and the staff hates the man. I swear there's no other explained Hasan... I don't know man I really don't know, twitch is bias as f

[@nxxdle_]

am i missing a joke or did u misspell juxtaposition

[@onlookingwalkingperson9016]

Excellent Work

[@mat2th]

Oh hey I missed your content

[@twooty2148]

This is why I like OTK

[@blackomet5049]

We know

[@WowzaBowser]

he back

[@nobafan7515]

I cant wait for the day twitch loses their top 20 creators perminately because they moved to a different platform. I can only hope.

[@n_worder]

Balls dropped

[@felixmonroe2295]

What did Hasan do? I literally only remember him from those TYT videos I used to see on Facebook in like 2017, I had no idea he was considered controversial.

[@spiceforspice3461]

He's a political commentator with really bad opinions, even for a left winger.

[@SerabiiBot]

The Young Turks are genocide deniers, are you surprised that someone associated with them is controversial at best?

[@jaircool2]

Speech shouldn't be censored tho

[@DimitriMonroe]

Do you think someone would do that, comment on a video without fully watching it so they can completely misrepresent what you said.

[@jaircool2]

@@DimitriMonroe yes, i just did that to get a response from you and it worked

[@DimitriMonroe]

I have been baited online