Streamer slams Twitch as racist bots target black streamers and mock #TwitchDoBetter Twitch\/CriticalBardA Twitch streamer has exposed the racist abuse he and other black content creators are receiving with bots mocking the #TwitchDoBetter movement in the progress. Streamers began the #TwitchDoBetter trend on social media amid an increase in \u201chate raids\u201d on the platform. These raids would see an army of racist bot accounts appear in a chat and spam racist language directed at the streamer and their communities. Now, these bots are mocking the movement against them while continuing to fire off racist abuse at content creators. (Content warning: racist language used in video below) It was bound to happen eventually. #TwitchDoBetter pic.twitter.com\/mbiN4FtLIb \u2014 CB! (@CriticalBard) August 10, 2021 Twitch streamer Omega Jones, also known as Critical Bard, took to Twitter to show exactly what he is experiencing in a video that has since spread like wildfire. \u201cPeople like to act like hate raids and follow bots that same some horrible ass sh*t don\u2019t exist,\u201d he said. \u201cAllow me to show you example 1. What just happened about twenty minutes ago on my channel.\u201d As you can see in the video, the streamer was just doing his own thing when hundreds of bots appeared in his chat and proceeded to spam slurs along with \u201c#TwitchDoBetter.\u201d There have been a MULTITUDE of suggestions at this point. Fix what’s important and protect the marginalized creators on your platform, @Twitch. This shit is past old. \u2014 CB! (@CriticalBard) August 10, 2021 \u201cI honestly don\u2019t need to continue,\u201d Omega Jones added. \u201cTwitch, do f**king better.\u201d The streamer\u2019s mod team was able to deal with the attack. Along with using the Commander Root program, he was able to get rid of most of the bots. \u201cIt should not be so easy for sh*t like this to happen. At all,\u201d the streamer blasted. \u201cThere have been a MULTITUDE of suggestions at this point. Fix what\u2019s important and protect the marginalized creators on your platform, Twitch. This sh*t is past old.\u201d We\u2019ve seen a lot of conversation about botting, hate raids, and other forms of harassment targeting marginalized creators. You\u2019re asking us to do better, and we know we need to do more to address these issues. That includes an open and ongoing dialogue about creator safety. \u2014 Twitch (@Twitch) August 11, 2021 On August 11, Twitch finally addressed the controversy, announcing that it plans on taking steps to make the platform safer with the introduction of enhanced channel-level ban detection. More improvements and tools for streamers are planned to be implemented in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Streamer slams Twitch as racist bots target black streamers and mock #TwitchDoBetter Twitch\/CriticalBardA Twitch streamer has exposed the racist abuse he and other black content creators are receiving with bots mocking the #TwitchDoBetter movement in the progress. Streamers began the #TwitchDoBetter trend on social media amid an increase in \u201chate raids\u201d on the platform. These […]<\/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-59467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59467","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=59467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}