When a streamer closes his or her stream, the raid function can be used to transfer the audience from the closing stream to another streamer. Quite a nice feature, because streamers with a large audience can draw attention to another steamer by transferring the audience to the relevant stream. Not all people will stick around, but a large part will certainly check whether the content of the next stream is also interesting for him or her. Unfortunately, this feature has been misused lately by a ton of users who flood various streamers with hateful messages. That is not fun for anyone and certainly not for the people who are affected by it, so streamers now collectively decide not to broadcast live streams on September 1.
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Under the banner of #ADayOffTwitch, streamers Rek It Raven, LuciaEverBlack and Shineypen started this initiative with the aim of getting as many major streamers as possible to join the collective to make a statement. Twitch has since responded to the matter, saying it needs to do more to protect streamers from harassment and discrimination.
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We’ve seen a lot of conversation about botting, hate raids, and other forms of harassment targeting marginalised creators. You’re asking us to do better, and we know we need to do more to address these issues. That includes an open and ongoing dialogue about creator safety.”
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