The streaming service received its lowest viewer ratings of this year after the scheduled protest last week

Last week, streamers and viewers carried out a protest on Twitch with the hashtag #DayOffTwitch on Twitter, by taking a day off in response to the company’s inactions in regards to the hate raids that have been happening more and more regularly on the streaming site.

The analytics team at Gamesight looked into the statistics regarding the number of viewers that day and have reported the site received its lowest total of daily hours for the year.

Lowest Viewer Hours on Twitch

Twitch managed to lose around 1 million viewers last Wednesday due to the protest that was carried out by a number of Twitch streamers including ShineyPen, RekitRaven, and Lucia Everblack.

Gamesight compared the data to averages as well as daily Wednesday engagement from the last 2 months and said the overall viewer hours on September 1 was a “notable anomaly”.

The last time daily viewer hours on Twitch were this low was back over in Christmas during December 2020; this is the lowest viewer hours have been for all of 2021.” – Adam Lieb, CEO of Gamesight

September 1 raked up a total number of 54,877,853 viewer hours, 15% lower than the previous Wednesday, which reached a total of 65,167,792 viewer hours.

Some streamers couldn’t engage with the protest due to contractual obligations with Twitch or deals with other sponsors, so the drop could have been higher. Yet there are other reasons for the drop as some streamers have left Twitch to join YouTube Gaming, such as DrLupo and TimtheTatman, which has caused their viewers to move with them. Other possible reasons are because school has started again in some parts of the world so that would have impacted on certain viewer statistics too.

Twitch has now responded with an email to its creators saying it has acknowledged the message from the protests about hate raids, and the company are working towards rectifying it.

Twitch's email to creators following the recent hate-bot attacks pic.twitter.com/cIV8B91hAO

— Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi) September 3, 2021

Now we have to wait and see if Twitch carries out its promise and whether it is successful, or it causes more backlash.

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The video game live streamers are taking the day off in order to protest the service’s recent “hate raids”

Twitch streamers have organised a protest today in order to protest against the “hate raids” that have been happening on the video game live streaming service recently.

The tag #DayOffTwitch is already trending on Twitter and has a long list of twitch streamers and viewers alike sharing their reasons why they are joining in with the protest, to bring attention to the recent burst of harassment directed towards the site’s marginalized creators.

Hate Raids on Twitch

The harassment sadly isn’t new, however, over the past few weeks, the hate often comes from generated bots that flood the chat and have an overwhelming effect to the point where creators have to end their streams.

The protest against these hate raids has been spearheaded by a number of Twitch streamers including ShineyPen, RekitRaven, and Lucia Everblack, who also started the #TwitchDoBetter trend as a protest to Twitch’s slow response to sexist, racist, transphobic comments on the platform, along with other forms of harassment.

Creators believe the harassment has become more targeted ever since Twitch expanded its list to include over 350 tags classified by gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ability, mental health, and more, bringing in targeted harassment along with the viewers is supposedly aimed for.

It certainly doesn’t help that there is nothing Twitch itself has provided for its creators, as they are left to their own devices with community-developed responses such as a panic button, which limits the chat from new subscribers with abusive names. Sadly, Twitch hasn’t made anything like that.

Twitch has promised to take action and gave a statement to The Verge which said:

We support our streamers’ rights to express themselves and bring attention to important issues across our service. No one should have to experience malicious and hateful attacks based on who they are or what they stand for, and we are working hard on improved channel-level ban evasion detection and additional account improvements to help make Twitch a safer place for creators.

Let’s hope Twitch keeps its promise and listens to the streamers and users protesting today.

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