twitch

Career prospects for livestreaming creators extend far beyond the gaming space.   Sleepfluencers, lawyers, rappers, and more make healthy livings on the strength of viewer tips. Other means of monetization include sponsored streams and commissions for digital shopping hosts. See more stories on Insider's business page. Livestreaming has surged in recent years.Twitch scored 5.7 billion…

Photo: Vasin Lee (Shutterstock)If you’ve ever watched videos on social media platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook Reels, or Twitch (so, basically, everyone), you may have noticed a slew of coded words and emojis that weren’t immediately decipherable—but whose meaning you could infer alongside the right context clues.Similarly, if you’ve ever created content for internet…

Image: Steamforged GamesVideo games are but one of gaming’s many forms, existing alongside board games, tabletop RPGs, and collectible card games. Unsurprisingly, many popular video games are often adapted into various tabletop formats.There are large-scale board games that adapt the gameplay of popular video games into cooperative tabletop adventures. Some standouts include Monster Hunter, Skyrim,…

On a mission to stop young men from being increasingly radicalized online, New York Attorney General Letitia James suggested today a new strategy to stop online hate from spreading: Punish anyone who reposts content created by those who commit homicide. Her potentially First Amendment-infringing policy reform recommendation comes after the Bureau of Internet and Technology…

New York leaders are urging federal and state reforms after the Buffalo mass shooting. Gov. Kathy Hochul and AG Letitia James say it should be illegal to livestream homicides. They also recommend making it easier to sue streaming platforms like Twitch and Discord. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics…

 Screenshot: Jake PetersonNationStates is a stylistically simplistic yet complicated text-based country simulator. You name your nation, choose its values, and put it out into the “world” for other players to see. As you play, you’re confronted by various political questions and issues. How you choose to address those issues shapes your nation in ways you…

Enlarge / Gambling-focused streams like this one will see more restrictions from Twitch in the coming weeks. Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch announced late Tuesday that it will start cracking down on streams that promote certain types of gambling sites in the coming weeks. The move comes after a number of prominent streamers publicly mulled a…

Twitch said Tuesday it will remove high-profile gambling sites from the Amazon-owned streaming platform after a number of high-profile streamers like Pokimane, Mizkif and Devin Nash threatened a boycott of Twitch during peak traffic periods. In a statement, Twitch said it would no longer allow the "streaming of gambling sites that include slots, roulette, or…

This week, some young people are learning about how they have no privacy at work. Others are asking why they can’t make friends. But everyone is asking whether Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine.Did Harry Styles really spit on Chris Pine?A 10-second clip of Olivia Wilde, Harry Styles, and Chris Pine has rocked the pop…

Twitch has faced scrutiny for how it helps streamers targeted by extreme hate campaigns. Last year, the livestreaming service started suing users conducting “hate raids” that rely on bots to spew a continual barrage of hate speech. These raids, Twitch’s lawsuit says, have been “targeting black and LGBTQIA+ streamers with racist, homophobic, sexist, and other…