On Wednesday, streamers and viewers boycotted Twitch as part of an organized protest, A Day Off Twitch. Users wanted to highlight the platform’s issues with harassment, notably the surge in “hate raids.” The raid feature lets a streamer send their viewers to a channel. Some have abused this to target POC content creators with waves of racist and hateful messages.
With statistics from the analytics team at Gamesight, we can learn the impact the protest had. As you can see from the chart above, Twitch lost about 1 million viewers during the protest, and the number actually represent the site’s lowest total for the year.
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