H3H3\u2019s Ethan Klein reveals Twitch gave \u201cspecial treatment\u201d to bigger streamers H3h3productionsPodcast host and YouTuber Ethan Klein from h3h3Productions revealed that his experiences with livestreaming platform Twitch has led him to believe they give special treatment to bigger streamers and partners, after he was let off with a punishment. Twitch has recently come under fire for its handling of the incident involving Alinity throwing her cat on stream, resulting in massive backlash from the community with many claiming she has been receiving favorable treatment. During his \u201cH3 Podcast\u201d, Ethan Klein explained his opinion on Twitch\u2019s recent decisions and even revealed that he also received some preferential treatment from Twitch staff, during his time as a partner on the platform. The YouTube star highlighted one of his streams in particular, where he collaborated with fellow content creator Joey Salads for a Hurricane Relief campaign, which resulted in Joey getting suspended for showing himself getting pepper sprayed to raise money for the campaign. However, Ethan, who was also streaming the event, was shocked that he did not get banned too, later asking his contact at Twitch why he did not receive a suspension. \u201cSo Twitch suspended Joey\u2019s twitch account but they didnt do anything to us. I later spoke on the phone to my contact there.\u201d He explained, before quoting the Twitch employee\u2019s response \u201cWe give special treatment to our big partners, we take care of you.\u201d Ethan then claimed that he was responsible for the incident which saw Joey getting suspended, \u201cWe showed the same thing, in fact we put him out there and told him to do it, effectively it was us not him but they banned him and didn\u2019t punish us.\u201d Topic starts at 53:37 for mobile users. Klein expressed that he also gets more support from YouTube now, compared to when he was one of the smaller creators on the platform: \u201cI get a way higher level of service from YouTube than when I was a small channel.\u201d Although the clip was seen as concerning to some viewers, Ethan claimed that knowing Twitch staff personally is more likely to result in them being more lenient. \u201cThe truth is when you know someone you treat them kinder then if you didn\u2019t, you have more empathy because you know them personally.\u201d As of now, it seems as if Twitch are sticking by decision to not ban Alinity from their platform despite the backlash from the community. Many users of the popular livestreaming platform are calling for a more strict enforcement of the community guidelines set out by Twitch. However, with so much of Twitch content heavily context dependent, it can be difficult to be universally fair when moderating such a large platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
H3H3\u2019s Ethan Klein reveals Twitch gave \u201cspecial treatment\u201d to bigger streamers H3h3productionsPodcast host and YouTuber Ethan Klein from h3h3Productions revealed that his experiences with livestreaming platform Twitch has led him to believe they give special treatment to bigger streamers and partners, after he was let off with a punishment. Twitch has recently come under fire […]<\/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-49349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49349","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=49349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}