There is no Twitch Adpocalypse.
The reason people are seeing no ad revenue for the "last two days" is because none of us ever have. Twitch calculates ad revenue for a stream 3-4 days later which has always been the case. It shows as no ad revenue until that calculation is done. Only Twitch Turbo revenue is shown immediately in terms of adrev displayed.
The reason some streamers were seeing reduced ad-fill rates was because of their content and tags. If you had a tag with sexual or political themes of any kind you stopped getting ad-fill. This is also normal on any other platform but now enforced by Twitch haphazardly through the tagging system. Tags are shit at this and led to a lot of splash damage because they don't take into account context. This used to be done by content category so the tag change is absolutely new. We've seen this tested by streamers removing their tags and immediately getting adrev back again.
An adpocalypse would denote that this is happening to everyone on the platform. It's not. Our income is exactly the same for this time of year as it ever has been. Don't have political or sexual content on your stream, category, or tags and nothing changes.
There are a lot of people blowing this up to be something massive when legit nothing is going on. In all of the cases provided it's either normal behavior or misused or mistargeted tags. It's also a lot of people suddenly discovering how ad revenue works on the platform.
This is all stuff I've worked with and understood for years. It's literally how we fund the ferret rescue which is run entirely on ads. If I didn't know how this worked none of our business would function.
No amount of bitching will make this untrue.
I've been gone for a hot minute but a friend reminded me I should stand tall and keep pushing. My husband lost his job at the end of January and the stress is real... but here are the latest thoughts on my system build!
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I've had to step away due to life stresses... but I am playing Hogwarts Legacy and let me say this: Just like when WotC screwed up, I am still going to support the game creators and enjoy the shit out of this. #fuckTERFs 1/?
It belongs to the creative writers who made more interesting stories using the wizarding world than she could ever imagine. Fuck her. But i've been needing something to get out of my head and this is it for me.
Hogwarts does NOT belong to HER. It belongs to the children who grew up reading about it and imagining themselves in the castle to escape whatever reality they were in. It belongs to the adults who needed - and still need - the same. 2/?
@DodecaMasterRpg@SixLegsGames My Stargems Kickstarter is live! Please check it out if you or someone you know is interested in a simplified system built to introduce kids to TTRPGs: https://t.co/LK3qCAXxGp
Opening Commissions for character Art. I can do any gender and a number of creatures as well (such as cat-folk, etc). If you are interested, please reach out on Twitter, or email me at [email protected]
Watch @Marisha_Ray, @WillingBlam and I become rowdy, silly people as we try to NOT sing along to Epic Songs!
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New tag? #friendfriday Being a introverted, adhd, doormat makes it hard to make friends... I've never had a bestie... a bit depressing... but seeing my following here grow gives me hope for my writing projects & future. Stick around & watch how we grow!