Twitch streamer faces backlash over custom \u201cbits\u201d emote used to fake $5k donations Twitch \/ Instagram: redvines.fnSeveral Twitch trolls have been caught abusing the platform\u2019s newest feature, animated emotes, by creating fake \u201cbits\u201d animations to bait streamers who think they\u2019re getting massive $5k donations from new viewers. Twitch only just introduced custom animated emotes last month and they\u2019re already being taken advantage of. As part of a 10th-anniversary celebration, the Amazon-owned streaming site allowed partnered streamers to create up to five animated emotes. Tier 1 subscribers are then able to use these animated emotes no different from the static ones. While this was intended as another means of expression, the latest Twitch feature has already led to some damaging interactions. In one particular case, a partnered streamer by the name of \u2018Redvines\u2019 used the feature to create fake bits. Rather than sending real donations, this enabled his subscribers to troll other streamers with misleading messages. View this post on Instagram \u201cI made the $100 bit donation into an emote,\u201d Redvine revealed in one of their most recent streams. \u201cI\u2019m gonna go troll some [other] streamers.\u201d At first, he jumped into FaZe Mew\u2019s channel and baited him with a 50,000 bit donation, the equivalent of roughly $500. Naturally, Mew was overjoyed and celebrating the massive donation at first. Just moments later, however, Redvine explained it was merely a prank. Before long, the streamer encouraged his viewers to do the same across the platform: \u201cClip it if you troll people, I\u2019ll make a video lol.\u201d Multiple streamers were soon baited by these fake acts of generosity. One example that went viral came on Emmagination\u2019s stream. A viewer by the name of \u2018EnvyTVs\u2019 looked to have donated 540,000 bits in the span of just a few seconds. Roughly $5,400 could have been life-changing to the streamer afflicted with chronic pain syndrome, who is also at \u201crisk of ending up homeless.\u201d In reality, these messages contained nothing more than animated emotes. The heartbroken streamer said: \u201cToday Twitch hit a new low for me. I was telling my community how I am in risk of ending up homeless because of my gov\u2019s inability to support disabled people and this happened in my chat.\u201d Today Twitch hit a new low for me. I was just telling my community how I am in risk of ending up homeless after my divorce because of my government\u2019s inability to support disabled people and then this happened in my chat (those are animated emotes, by the way, NOT bits) pic.twitter.com\/NvevZ3rBvu \u2014 Emma \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u26a7\ufe0f\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\ud83c\udf08 (@theEmmagination) July 10, 2021 Just hours after the Emmagination prank went viral, Revine\u2019s fake \u2018bits\u2019 emote has been removed, Dexerto can now confirm. The streamer, who many believe should face punishment for their actions, responded soon after. \u201cMy new emote is no longer available, thought it would be a funny prank but some people used it maliciously,\u201d they wrote. \u201cSorry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch streamer faces backlash over custom \u201cbits\u201d emote used to fake $5k donations Twitch \/ Instagram: redvines.fnSeveral Twitch trolls have been caught abusing the platform\u2019s newest feature, animated emotes, by creating fake \u201cbits\u201d animations to bait streamers who think they\u2019re getting massive $5k donations from new viewers. Twitch only just introduced custom animated emotes last […]<\/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-62605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62605","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=62605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}