but wouldn't it be fine since it's a stream of a stream? of Game Awards no less? I refuse to believe ppl who organize this shit did not make sure that ppl could stream it on Twitch without muting it every 2 minutes
It isn't fine - Twitch is having a gigantic issue with DMCA issues because no real "streaming" license exists.
For the better part of 2020 record labels have been using bots to crawl nearly
all content on twitch (even deleted VODs/clips/etc) and has been serving Twitch gigantic piles of DMCA notices to which, allegedly, Twitch was just ignoring. The response from Twitch more recently has been to delete streamers content and tell streamers "don't get us DCMA'ed because we aren't going to protect you at all" - hence all the absurd muting/stream antics from Pat and other streamers.
So, no, Twitch as a platform has done 0 preparation for this and isn't likely to do so in the future. Pat (and any other streamer on Twitch who can accept subscriptions) has also signed an "exclusivity" contract - meaning that if he streams live content - he has to do it on Twitch, meaning he's stuck doing this stuff in the vain hope it helps him in the future.
It's worth noting that DMCA bots can crawl content as it's live, behind subscription walls, and even content that the streamer has deleted from the channel manually (because Twitch still keeps it on accessible servers).
Why the freaking hell woolie is playing Waku Waku 7, an old ass obscure arcade fighting game during the game awards? Oh my god, how much poison must a man drink until he realizes it's bad for him?
I genuinely cannot understand how woolie's head works. I thought woolie cared about twitch viewership more than youtube but he clearly doesnt since he's streaming at an awful time. It's like he is simply recording the game for youtube... but it's a lazy twitch stream that wont be edited so it's bad youtube content anyway. It's always the worst of both worlds with him.
I'm (obviously) not Woolie but he's probably thinking "Everyone is going to be streaming the Game Awards - so I'll have a stream
not streaming the Game Awards to grab people who do not give a shit about the Video Game Awards!". It isn't a bad idea, generally you should avoid doing the thing that everyone is doing unless you've got something unique to add to it (see also - the 10,000 people streaming "Among Us"/whatever other flavor of the month game to 0 viewers).
He could play something that he's really into/that's really new to try and get an "introduction" to a larger audience that doesn't want to watch the VGAs and try to make those new viewers into fans.
Why on earth he went with "Waku Waku 7" I could not tell you. Literally any other game would have been better - but that's Woolie.
