In regards to the pig’s departnering, a recent article on Kotaku (I know, I know, but Nathan Cuckson’s coverage of Twitch is often insightful in discerning the constant garbage that comes about Twitch’s godawful policies) gave some information regarding a certain titty streamer’s demonetization, similar to what happened to DSP: “[...] Siragusa, however, was not alone.
Sources have since told Kotaku that a number of streamers had advertising removed from their channels, though it seems that not all of them noticed or said anything publicly. This has alarmed Twitch streamers, who are now in the dark as to what’s considered advertiser-friendly content and what’s not—meaning they, too, are at risk of suddenly not being able to make money off Twitch ads anymore. In the blog post, Twitch did not do much to assuage their fears, but it did confirm that demonetization is a thing that can happen now.“
Although this specific streamer is still a partner but has lost the ability to monetize ads, I believe that DSP’s departerning might have been spurred by pressure from Twitch’s advertiser base. This would make sense as literally over 5 years of reports from individual users were not able to motivate Twitch to do something about DSP’s conduct, this time around, the pig lost his complete ability to monetize his content through Twitch functionality in the backdrop of some big streamers (as well as small) losing their ability to also enjoy Twitch’s monetization tools. I refuse to believe that whatever happened to DSP happened within a vacuum and there appears to be a lot of pressure put on Twitch corporate and legal to do something about streamers who use ads and whose behavior might be damaging to a brand’s image.
The fact that Dark lost his complete and total ability to even make a dollar via the tools provided by Twitch is the one of the strongest public indictments he has recently received as a content creator: corporations think he’s unmarketable and want nothing to do with him (something many of us have been saying for a while and has somewhat vindicated us in our judgment).
But since we’re talking about the Autism Vortex, leave it to Phil to have semi-permanently lost his ability to get any kind of sponsorship but to make more money via cash than he’s ever been able to. But we’re not Phil and we know life isn’t static outside of the tiny little bubble we’ve enveloped ourselves in. And something is going to destabilize him again and it’s going to produce some amazing gold dust.
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Link to Kotaku article