OpheliaNoir

As someone who's been doing music streams for 6,5 years on Twitch, and powered through the bad circumstances for it, I feel conflicted. Happy to see they're promoting the music section. Unhappy to see they forgot the people who worked hard to make it into the community it is now.

I started in a time when you got reported for making music on Twitch. Back then, streaming full time meant you had a personal connection with Twitch, its employees and the company itself. I get that you can't keep that integrity if you wanna make big $$ as a company but lately -

it seems like the personal connection with the website and its inner workings has been lost. I dont need to feel "special" as a creator but I do need to feel like the content I make and others that do similar things are cared for and respected by the platform. Losing this -

Personal vibe and familiarity has meant losing opportunities and motivation. It's the reason I haven't been live for 8 months and why a lot of streamers from 2013/2014 aren't feeling it anymore. Show us you give a shit, and not just want to make money off what we deliver.

As someone who been on both sides of twitch - so much this. Less people care. I don't feel the "magic" so to say anymore. The eyes feel glued to numbers and not to creation and streamers and cool things that happen.

Thank you for agreeing from an inside point of view! <3 It's hard to keep going when you feel nobody gives a shit! Community luckily is amazing and so worth it every day ^_^ Which is also why content creators get so torn between two worlds, it's hard to make up your mind.