Dr Disrespect responds to people laughing at Mixer shutting down Twitch: Dr DisrespectTwitch star Dr Disrespect reacted to Microsoft shutting Mixer down during his June 22 stream, and explained to his audience why it\u2019s not entirely a laughing matter. The streaming world was rocked on June 22 when Microsoft made the surprising announcement that Mixer is shutting down. The tech company revealed it are merging the streaming platform with Facebook Gaming. Reacting to the news during his live broadcast, Dr Disrespect explained to viewers why the service closing down isn\u2019t something to be too happy about. The Twitch star responded to a donation and gave his take on the situation. Dr Disrespect reacts to Mixer shutting down Dr Disrespect put aside his usual over-the-top persona, and was reflective after learning about Mixer shutting down. The streamer reacted to a donation that found the announcement hilarious, before asking him about his thoughts. \u201cI don\u2019t know if that\u2019s something\u2026 There is probably a lot of people that are being laid off, there\u2019s jobs involved. That\u2019s definitely not something to laugh about.\u201d he said, before he explained the problem the platform struggled with the most. \u201cSomething just wasn\u2019t clicking with Mixer and Microsoft attracting talent and top talent outside of just paying them straight up.\u201d he continued. Reflecting on the major announcement, he then exclaimed, \u201cIt\u2019s interesting that Facebook bought Mixer. Like why? I don\u2019t know.\u201d Another donation asked him if he thought his friends Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek and Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins would move back to Twitch. \u201cI\u2019m sure they will. I don\u2019t know all the details. If they are able to get paid and get out of that whole situation and make a decision wherever they want to go. S**t, they knocked it out of the park.\u201d During the same broadcast, Doc reiterated that the platform\u2019s attempts to grow never paid off. \u201cThe results, they don\u2019t lie. Microsoft invested a lot in Mixer, trying to get some big names involved. Try to get the momentum on their side. It seems like it just didn\u2019t pay off.\u201d The streaming veteran was left perplexed by Facebook\u2019s decision to merge with Mixer. He wondered if it had to do with tech or infrastructure, rather trying to make the platform grow with a new partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr Disrespect responds to people laughing at Mixer shutting down Twitch: Dr DisrespectTwitch star Dr Disrespect reacted to Microsoft shutting Mixer down during his June 22 stream, and explained to his audience why it\u2019s not entirely a laughing matter. The streaming world was rocked on June 22 when Microsoft made the surprising announcement that Mixer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}