Streaming platform Twitch again found herself in the center of the scandal. However, this time the catalyst was not bloggers, but the site administration and its controversial personnel policy.
So-called Twitch Security Councilwhose members should patronize minorities and marginalized groups, as well as monitor inclusiveness and promote healthy streaming. It included eight people, including “professionals” and bloggers.
The transgender woman and furry stand out especially in this company of fighters for social justice (calls herself the deer girl and the “forest creature”) Steph loerknown as Ferociously steph. Why does she stand out? The fact is that the SJW activist managed to anger the audience through her statements, which can be called a manifestation of discrimination and racism.
As part of her streams, Lauer said that voice chat is supposedly not critical to competitive games, and only “heterosexual white men” need it. Streamers calls to fight with “misogyny”, but at the same time says that many gamers are “white supremacists”.
Streamers have already criticized Twitch’s policies Felix xQc Langiel and Whip knut Spildrayord. The former has already called Steph Lauer “objectively dumb”, and the latter has demanded that the administration of the portal dismiss her.
“The creation of the Twitch Security Council was announced a few hours ago, but they have already pissed off a bunch of streamers and members of the competitive gaming community.” Great start, ”said well-known e-sports journalist Rod Breslau.
“This completely destroys the initiative before it starts. It looks like Twitch representatives cleared their way to make sure that the group is not taken seriously, and it does not even receive a gram of respect by choosing people who clearly hate the majority of Twitch’s demographic audience.” , – Upper Echelon Gaming blogger added.
FerociouslySteph does not consider himself guilty, arguing that the use of voice is supposedly an advantage that they can use to defeat opponents, to attack marginalized groups and organize bullying.
“People believe that I’m a threat to game mechanics,” she said.
At the same time, the Twitch administration ignored the criticism, taking the side of FerociouslySteph and promising to take measures to protect the “hunted” streamer from opponents. However, this will not turn out anything good for the platform, which has long been criticized for its slowness and opacity.
Now Stef Lauer complains that she was harassed for being “different”, people refuse to recognize diversity, and there are too many “white supremacists” in the comments. On accusations of incompleteness, the streamer wrote that in the US she got to third rank in solo mode in Heroes of the storm.
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