news culture In light of Twitch’s inaction, streamer Billy proposes joint action to “ban stalkers everywhere”.
As harassment has flared up again, streamers have spoken out to express their weariness and difficulty in supporting these behaviors on a daily basis, whether on their Twitch channel or on Twitter. After another episode immediately after Eleven All Stars, a handful of streamers came forward to defend their female counterparts. Among the various interventions we can mention the recent one by Billy, who made a proposal on his stream to combat this scourge.
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- Harassment, a phenomenon increasingly occurring on Twitch and Twitter
- A collective action by streamers against harassment
Harassment, a phenomenon increasingly occurring on Twitch and Twitter
Recently, a new debate targeting the lack of promiscuity between certain streamer communities lit the web, especially after the words and Explanations by Player of the Attic. But contrary to what you might hear, there is an issue that affects many users and on which it would be possible to form a common front and break these “chasms” between communities, according to streamer Billy’s suggestion during a his last life. In fact, it has been several weeks since we reported an alarming situation on the Twitch platform, as well as on Twitter, where harassment and toxic and misogynistic behavior are increasingly present.
Beyond Revelation behind the scenes of what they constantly endurethe representatives of the French twitch never stopped alert users to this, even if it means taking very great precautions like streamer Ultia did when she announced that she would turn to the judiciary to deal with cyberbullying which she has been the goal for more than a year. Since the episode of Eleven All Stars, the male gender has also been supporting on social networks and on Twitch.
A collective action by streamers against harassment
After Amine’s speech, during one of his Twitch Lives, aim to censure the behavior of some on social networkswhile demanding their responsibilities, It’s Streamer Billy’s turn to discuss this topic with members of his community. In particular, during this discussion, he made a proposal to take joint action by all streamers against those who contribute to these more than frequent campaigns of harassment. Given Twitch’s inaction on this important issue, the streamer mentioned the creation of a banned user list that has been extended to all content creators on the platform.
Billy proposing streamers/streamers self-organization against harassment of women on Twitch, the only solution that can be adopted given Twitch’s years of inaction! pic.twitter.com/7h1u9OJA2I
— Eddy Hacene (@EddyHacene) December 4, 2022
In the excerpt above, Billy explains how this joint action between all streamers could work. First, the behavior of some and their ” double facet » (« There are guys who are obnoxious on Chick streams and who are very nice on my stream, on Amine’s stream (…) “), Billy then explained that it would be wise The ‘Streamer’ blocklist is communicated on a shared Discord serverwith all streamers who want to participate, then applied to all streams (« It means a guy who is banned in Maghla, in Deujna, … automatically that bans him/her everywhere “). The idea, as he sums it up at the end, would be the facility a common front with heavy sanctions, so that those most affected and others are much more aware of this issue and the consequences of their actions.
