twitch.tv drama

Background:

Twitch is a streaming website wherein gamers can livestream themselves playing videogames and other people tune in to watch as a form of entertainment. It's wildly popular, and many gamers are actually able to do this as their primary form of income.

Ruh Roh:

One of the admins of Twitch is named Horror. Horror apparently has a longstanding reputation as being a total ass. Horror is also a gay furry. Being a gay furry, Horror made a global emote on Twitch for his boyfriend, which was a little furry wolf head.

Finding this emote amusing, a popular streamer named Duke_Bilgwater made fun of this emote. The offending comment is here. Duke was immediately IP banned from the site.

Duke then posted to /r/games, but that was removed citing votecheating, so here is a copy paste of his post.

Upon hearing of the ban, the Twitch streaming community went into an uproar and a "Remove Horror" campaign started to gain traction.

As the Anti-Horror campaign grew, Twitch started banning anyone talking about it. The list is so long that I will not be including it here. Keep in mind, some of these people actually did this for a living. And if there is one thing guaranteed to kick up a drama shit storm over - it's money.

/r/Gaming dusts off their remove button:

So, while this is all going on, gamers were making posts about it to /r/Gaming (and others but r/gaming has the honor of handling it the worst, and thus being the focus of this post!). All of the posts were removed. There were tons of removed posts though, many are lost to drama history!

But why would they remove them? Because Twitch was asking them to of course!.

Cries of censorship were abound for sure, and a full on witch hunt was brewing for the mods of r/gaming..

Conclusion(?):

A particular /r/gaming mod, /u/allthefoxes, then made a sticky post (Now Baleeted) in /r/gaming basically admitting that they censored the posts because they were asked to. Ironically enough, another stated reason for the removal was their "witch-hunty nature" Oddly enough, they also took the fall for removing basically all of the posts.

Juicy tidbit: /u/allthefoxes was also demodded, and shadowbanned from /r/gaming via automod. Snap!

On the Twitch side of the ordeal, the CEO realized the gravity of the situation, and issued a formal apology. An admin named Chris92 was given the boot. But there was more drama to come as reports that Horror (the instigator of this entire ordeal) was not entirely removed as an admin from the site. It's still unclear whether they were entirely removed, or simply removed from "public" moderation. There is also a tonne of drama throughout that thread.

All of the streamers that were banned are also going to be unbanned. Most importantly, however, that adorable little furry emote has been removed as well.

What will happen next, if anything? Who knows, but stayed tuned.

Note: If I missed anything actually important to the overarching drama, let me know!

Thanks to everyone who contributed info on this drama for this recap.

ottd patriot wrote:read about it didn't give a fuck because twitch is gay

Shadowfall wrote:so horror is gay?

Kenpokid4 wrote:also the fact that horror is still fucking in charge of emotes, he just can't ban

ammmy wrote:

Kenpokid4 wrote:also the fact that horror is still fucking in charge of emotes, he just can't ban

WTF did he put back in his furry lover

the fucking super mario bros hack with "REMOVE HORROR" as the title was when the drama jumped the shark, you can't go any further than that

Avey Tare wrote:

ammmy wrote:

Kenpokid4 wrote:also the fact that horror is still fucking in charge of emotes, he just can't ban

WTF did he put back in his furry lover

the fucking super mario bros hack with "REMOVE HORROR" as the title was when the drama jumped the shark, you can't go any further than that

I guess you could say the emotes is in a state of horror