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Shit low of OCE bastard server

[Forcer (Was Voluntold for a blue check) @Forcer69]

So called “Metal Fans,” when 2000s White Girl music starts playing

[2D_Teddy @2D_Teddy]

@PawchiVT Like if you have ever interacted with her before it's beyond obvious that is exactly the kind of person she is underneath. Idk how anyone is surprised by this coming out it was only a matter of time. What surprises me is nobody else seems to have anything to show from her.

[styroz ひ @styrozcutter]

im 20 now and i completely understand where they were coming from

[2D_Teddy @2D_Teddy]

@Embermomentz @duroppucharming Despite reviving her every time I had no idea that this was what happened to her at all. Thank you so much for clipping Duro otherwise I would have missed this Destiny gem completely.

[Ember @Embermomentz]

Day 377 of editing vtuber clips
@duroppucharming These guys aren't very nice
https://t.co/UaKDiWBFsi (Source)

[2D_Teddy @2D_Teddy]

@PlayStationDE Probably Destiny 2 from the start... if we had that content still

[DudeWith GreatAdvice @GamingProTips]

@EndymionYT McDonald’s stops selling Big Macs. Instead they sell shit sandwiches a small community loves for some reason. “Hey guys, eat the shit sandwiches so McDonalds makes Big Macs again.”

I don’t know why this is a hard concept for those people who think Marathon should be supported

[duroppu 🐨💚dropbear vtuber | STREAMING ERA @duroppucharming]

If you're feeling down today..
Order by most fans and go to the last page and click the pokemon to read why they're the favourite:
https://t.co/0J5FtFidz0

[2D_Teddy @2D_Teddy]

@duroppucharming

[2D_Teddy @2D_Teddy]

@duroppucharming Silence woman your role since birth was to heal, shield and toot are we understood?

[2D_Teddy @2D_Teddy]

@felipedm1219 @itimaliasof Assuming you still have no idea but this is how dogs can sound after being de-barked (I believe is the usual term used). This is a surgery performed by Vets to cut the vocal chords and have them heal over to remove the bark to get similar results as observed in the video.

[2D_Teddy @2D_Teddy]

@Reveredd2 Last I checked you weren't in the super duper exclusive real Australians only vtubers discord so how can we trust you to be an Australian?

[2D_Teddy @2D_Teddy]

@dracaeon For years I was called Tittys or Tiddys just because Discord allowed me to do that and what happened? Nobody got a choice they just had to accept my username and call me by the only option they were given. Game call outs were kind of peak as a result.

[Kabrutus @kabrutusdeid]

When I decided to create the Steam curator Sweet Baby Inc. Detected, my goal was to warn players about people who wanted to turn video games into tools for ideological messaging and political propaganda.

Things escalated far beyond anything I ever imagined and today, terms like DEI are widely known across the global gaming community.

We have also seen Sweet Baby Inc. become increasingly secretive, and having your game associated with Sweet Baby Inc. has effectively become a badge of shame, leading to significant losses in sales and reputation among gamers.

Over the past few weeks, I have been watching the industry's movements closely, and the reemergence of Anita Sarkeesian as a relevant figure is deeply concerning. This is someone who has already done far too much damage to the video game industry with her toxic and hateful ideas, combined with the influence she somehow still holds within the industry.

I see a situation very similar to what we had with Sweet Baby Inc.: a malicious individual trying to use video games to spread twisted and hateful ideologies, using gaming as a vehicle for propaganda.

That is why I have decided to start including games connected to Anita Sarkeesian in the Sweet Baby Inc. Detected curator.

We need not only to warn players that the game they are thinking about buying may be helping fund Anita Sarkeesian's disgusting work, but also to send a clear message to the industry that WE WILL NOT ACCEPT OUR ENTERTAINMENT BEING TURNED INTO PROPAGANDA. PERIOD.

However, I cannot do this alone, not this time. Unlike Sweet Baby Inc., Anita Sarkeesian does not provide a ready made list of games she has worked on through her official website. She does list clients, but not specific games. And I simply cannot spend endless hours every day tracking down and investigating these titles anymore. Life happens. Bills need to be paid, and I have to focus on work that actually brings financial return. I am being completely honest with you here.

But I know many of you can help track these games down. To get things started, I have added Slay the Spire 2 to the Sweet Baby Inc. Detected curator.

If you can help identify more titles connected to her, please email me at [email protected]. Only games with undeniable proof of her involvement will be added. As always, I do not want to be unfair to anyone, nor do I want to spread false information.

ROUND 2 BEGINS NOW!

[Devin @DevinNash]

Tapping in on the Twitch viewbotting discussion as an actual agency brand advertising executive.

This Twitch post is unlikely to convince any advertisers or streamers that the issue is improving.

Here's how to actually address this problem -

Viewbotting is an engineering and incentives problem disguised as a cultural one. There is no solution to this problem that can ever be achieved via culture change or moderation. People are debating the efficacy of the solution in Twitch’s post when the entire implementation isn’t even relevant.

Given Twitch’s track record, no one should believe Twitch will enforce this “viewer cap” change appropriately even if they did have the proper backend data (and I think they don’t.) They won’t even enforce against popular streamers who have viewbotting programs visible on their screen, streamers who roleplay bringing slaves on their broadcasts and feed them treats, or broadcasters who advocate blatent political violence, and so on.

Many streamers are on their 8th or 9th temporary bans for various TOS-breaking content. No one believes Twitch's intervention via moderation will change anything.

So again it’s a matter of engineering and incentives. I’ll break down each one. But first a productive question to ask. Why does Youtube Live - which now eclipses Twitch’s live viewership by 40% - have nearly no problems with bots and viewbotting?

Well first the engineering problem. Viewbotting gets solved by better detection, pattern recognition, IVT analysis, device fingerprinting, IP patterns, watch-time anomalies, removing off-platform embedding, and other boring backend stuff. As Dan correctly noted, these are things you can’t be public about because they’ll quickly see counterplay from the viewbot services. You just have to lock in and fix it. Google has spent billions of dollars solving this because advertisers don’t like invalid traffic. Their IVT rate now sits at a healthy 11% or so, easily beating competing live services like Tiktok (24%) and Twitch (35%+.)

Twitch hasn’t taken this problem seriously. I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Twitch, and no team member has ever communicated to me or any of the agencies I work with about their IVT rates accurately. On the contrary it often feels like they throw raw viewership numbers around in pitch decks and presentations as the REASON to go advertise there. That used to work, but money is getting smarter in digital. Brands correctly care about return on spend and engagement with real people rather than just the perception that there are viewers around.

You need both bravery and expertise in engineering to make massive changes. Twitch actually has phenomenal engineers, many who were brought on by the former CEO to develop the world’s most advanced CDN (content delivery network) from 2015-2022 before Youtube Live recently surpassed it. But I’m not sure the company has the bravery to make real, necessary changes that many commentators on this post have noted must happen. Successfully “fixing” this would represent a 30-35% global drop in viewership for a website already perceived as ailing against its competitors.

To solve the engineering side you just have to apply more of the above technical solutions and spend money and time. Communicate with advertisers, refund us in high IVT events, keep improving your CDN, etc. It’s not a moderation issue, it’s not a viewer cap issue, that’s crowd pandering and will fix nothing. Both advertisers and the community begged for years for attention on this topic, while viewbotters bled us all and collected millions of dollars. Twitch has eroded trust and should just stop making these posts to the public. Users have lost tolerance for the platform and just need to see the actual changes.

The second problem is the incentive problem. Every system to succeed on Twitch is set up based on the number of viewers you have. The entire Partnership/Affiliate pipeline is viewership based. The entire discovery funnel is viewership based. Sponsorships are calculated on CCV per $. And the entire culture of the website is “more viewers = better.” So of course everyone will do anything possible to get more viewers. This not only encourages viewerbotting but also toxic streamer culture (IRL nuisance streamers, etc) because, again, it’s all about the views.

On Youtube Live monetization rewards sustained engagement and overall channel performance. Ads, super chats, channel memberships, etc. Discovery is pushed by an interest-based recommendation algorithm. Viewers will find you because of interest alignment - not because you have the most viewers. Barely anyone viewbots there because there’s no point. Adding viewers won’t help your channel, and Google’s AI/ML will instantly and automatically suppress your channel and shut off your ads.

It is frustrating that the C-Level over at Twitch keep posting about viewbotting as if it’s going to get solved by human moderation. As if Twitch is going to magically have an amazing enforcement team with “the data” that goes after the serial offenders and returns everything to normalcy. This is all solvable, even from where Twitch is now. But you have to make the investments on the engineering/CDN side and just get to work. Everyone is waiting and hoping for these changes.

Twitch’s viewbotting epidemic is a downstream effect of what every major streamer and industry professional told them would happen for years. They didn’t implement discovery engines, they didn’t change the incentive systems, they didn’t invest aggressively against obvious botting cases, and they didn’t communicate. Now they have an existential advertising and creator crisis. You reap what you sow.

[2D_Teddy @2D_Teddy]

@MoobieMilkVT Could have at least given him a warning count down before banning him how else will he know that a punishment was coming if he continued that behaviour? Smh

[Sam2TheSlaughter |🦔 VTuber @Sam2TheSlaughtr]

I hate to admit this but if I get raided into a channel in follower only & I’m not met with “So sorry raiders, we’re in follower only chat temporarily due to trolls”. I just leave.

Follower only mode is 100% a needed tool for us to have, but not to have up permanently. I’m not going to give you my follow just to chat with you for a short bit & leave. If I do I’ll most likely just unfollow when I’m done.

Might be a hot take so apologies! But I just find it annoying…

[2D_Teddy @2D_Teddy]

@brave Like what do you mean I cannot login unless it's an approved ads supported browser this shit is so ass

[2D_Teddy @2D_Teddy]

@brave save me from the relentless abuse of twitch ads I beg of you. It was working perfectly till today but I cannot stand trying to endure without a functioning option anymore the site is unusable.