If I was cynical I’d probably assume it was because the negative press, highlighting the racism and the white nationalist terrorism, didn’t play out well with advertisers. In addition, we have temporarily suspended the ability for new creators to stream.” We are working with urgency to remove the offending content and suspend all accounts engaged in this behavior. Our investigations uncovered that the majority of accounts that shared and viewed the content were automated. “Over the weekend we became aware of a number of accounts targeting the “Artifact” game directory to share content that grossly violates our terms of service. Needless to say it was at this point the games press latched on to what was happening and it was widely reported that the Artifact section had descended into anarchy.Īs the media machine did its thing, Twitch tweeted a statement that said they were taking drastic measures to resolve the issue. Sure, I can laugh off a picture of Mario doing the Goatse pose, but looped footage of the Christchurch shooting is impossible to stomach.
Twitch Twitch’s Artifact section seen at the peak of its descent into chaos. Then, because the internet was a mistake, it went from being a place you could find shiny nuggets of bizarre content to a sewer filled with steaming chunks of the worst the online world has to offer. At that time, the corresponding section of Twitch became a goldmine of weirdness. You may recall when Valve’s doomed card game Artifact sank to the point where you could fit all of its active players in a phone booth. Let me tell you how I know Twitch could be doing a lot more to stop this. They can say ‘we’re making our viewers aware of these streams in a bid to protect them’, which is a nice way of saying “it’s your fault if you get fucked over by one of these streams even though we are enabling them.” Yet anecdotally we know that things like adult entertainment are taken down within such short timespans people barely have time to get to the vinegar strokes. They can say, ‘hey, we’re banning them as fast as we can’, a statement that ultimately means nothing. It gives them just enough of an excuse to continually fail you. It’s my view that big companies revel in the doubt that such discussion creates. I’d be lying if I said I haven’t laughed at the misfortune of others, but before you think it’s only confused ‘boomers’ that get rolled like this, consider that a report by the FTC found that millennials are particularly more vulnerable to online scams than seniors with “40 percent of adults age 20-29 who have reported fraud” having lost money in a fraud case. That attractive woman you’re messaging isn’t real. You aren’t eligible for a lottery dividend. Sure, the first lesson you need to learn on the internet is that it’s all bullshit and you should probably trust nothing. Twitch CS:GO streams are popular targets, claiming to give away ‘free skins’. All of this suggests that they are making money and Twitch isn’t reacting fast enough to stop that being a reality. These days they are impersonating the biggest names in streaming and have a system in place that means they are back within an hour or so of being shut down. Before they were impersonating smaller streamers, ones that might only rope in one or two unsuspecting rubes. What has changed is the scale and the efficiency with which these scams work now. In reality, this type of con has been going on for years. People seem to be under the impression that this is something new. Read More: Twitch needs to be held accountable for its inconsistency.To further add to the deception they often use viewbots to boost the numbers enough to push it to the top of the section or even Twitch’s front page. This is placed over the old footage from a previous broadcast that is played in its entirety to give the illusion of it being live.
The site is typically a phishing site that will ask for login information or worse. Fake chatters boast about getting a prize to trick real viewers. Twitch A fake shroud stream, which attracted upwards of 8000 “viewers”.
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