What is Twitch\u2019s TV meta and why is it controversial? Unsplash.com: Zach Vessels \/ TwitchLive streaming platform Twitch is home to a slew of different \u2018metas,\u2019 with TV shows being one of them. But what exactly is the site\u2019s popular \u2018TV Meta,\u2019 and why is it so controversial? Twitch has been host to a variety of different \u2018metas\u2019 in the past. Essentially, a \u2018meta\u2019 is a trend that\u2019s guaranteed to get views, seemingly taken from a term popularized by MMO games that stands for \u201cMost Effective Tactic Available.\u201d In recent years, Twitch has seen a few \u2018metas\u2019 take over its platform. Trends like hot tub streams come to mind, which became so prevalent that the site had to create an entirely new category for those types of broadcasts. While hot tub streams came under fire for seemingly skirting the platform\u2019s guidelines, another meta also sparked a heated debate of a different sort \u2014 the TV meta. Essentially, this meta sees streamers watch television shows with their audiences\u2026 usually to the tune of thousands of viewers. Series like Gordon Ramsay\u2019s Kitchen Nightmares and Nickelodeon\u2019s Avatar were extremely popular choices for streamers like Disguised Toast and Pokimane, who both copped bans over DMCA issues stemming from watching copyrighted shows with their audiences. Therein lies the issue with this particular Twitch \u2018meta\u2019 \u2014 streamers risk bans for watching copyrighted content, similar to the music-related DMCA drama from years prior which prompted companies like Riot Games to create royalty-free albums specifically for streaming. Several top broadcasters have weighed in on the issue in the past. Names like Hasan Piker have warned their fellow influencers against streaming TV shows, with some even citing fears of another YouTube-style \u2018adpocalypse\u2019 if things went too far. And things, indeed, did go too far; amid the height of the TV meta last year, it wasn\u2019t uncommon to see channels running 24\/7 broadcasts of television shows, including anime, the Simpsons, Family Guy, and more. However, other streamers like Pokimane argued that Twitch should lean into the meta, while names like xQc didn\u2019t see an issue with streamers \u2018reacting\u2019 to shows in the first place. With top streamer Disguised Toast possibly bringing back Twitch\u2019s TV meta with Naruto watch parties, it\u2019s unclear whether the trend will come back as strong as it did before\u2026 but it\u2019s certainly sparking conversation across social media in the interim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is Twitch\u2019s TV meta and why is it controversial? Unsplash.com: Zach Vessels \/ TwitchLive streaming platform Twitch is home to a slew of different \u2018metas,\u2019 with TV shows being one of them. But what exactly is the site\u2019s popular \u2018TV Meta,\u2019 and why is it so controversial? Twitch has been host to a variety […]<\/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-64243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64243","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=64243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}