Someone explain Twitch to me

I’m confused, did they make the switch to ads for everyone already? I haven’t seen any yet. Does AdBlock work on them?

It sounds like uBlock Origin does (at least, sometimes or on some ads) - and if you’re not using uBlock Origin, it is the current top tier adblocker extension.

I also saw recommendations to use a third party desktop application based on VLC, called Streamlink.

I’ve been using VLC + Streamlink. Streamlink captures the stream, then redirects it to any media player that can play streams (VLC being one of that is cross platform.). You don’t get adds, and it uses far less CPU. You can also run the stream in a nice window.

I typically run a stream on the second monitor when I’m playing slower games, it works pretty well.

If you have an annual subscription to Amazon Prime, the ads will start showing up when the subscription renews.

So you have to pay for the privilege of viewing ads?

No. You pay for free goods delivery. As a bonus, you get Amazon Prime Video, Music, free Twitch games every month and the ability to donate a free Amazon Twitch Prime subscription to the streamer of your choice (which can benefit some Qt3ers).

The fact that ads are showing again is hardly paying for ads…

Great post!! thanks!

Here’s another interesting video. This you tube channel has some other cool stats as well:

Yuck. These streamers are on too much sugar/caffeine/other drugs.

yeah, that seems to be the mode.

OK, this is just creepy:

At that point they’re not watching anything. They’re in a chat room.

People love chat rooms.

I discovered a game channel called ASMR on Twitch last night. The player, typically a girl with huge breasts and tight underwear, whispers and rubs random objects on a microphone. The audience wins when she takes a break from rubbing the microphone and dances in her underwear, and she wins when the audience gives her money. It’s a popular game, with thousands of viewers at all times.

The best player in the world so far seems to be a particularly well-endowed girl named Amouranth. She wears the tightest clothes, has the biggest boobs, and maintains the most disinterested wooden face of them all. I’m not sure how viable competitive ASMR is just yet as an eSport, but it looks like something pretty much anybody could play if they’re interested in rubbing brushes, bracelets, and breasts on an expensive microphone.

I wonder what the sequel will look like.

Boobs? Where?

Now you’re going to get entitled asmrers complaining about Twitch t–nevermind.

Someone explain the Casino channel to me. It’s gotta be bots, but what’s the scam? Are they scamming twitch for ad revenue?

Most people think it’s basically a giant free ad for various casinos.

Which makes sense, how much does it cost to throw up a neverending ad online? You have to pay maybe one dude to make the account and make sure it stays live and then direct the bots to it.

You make some ad money back, but by most streamer’s accounts that’s basically nothing. So it’s got to be all the links and the like that people mention these streams tend to run. Not sure how effective it is, but, again, it’s basically free.

Edit: Per Reddit it seems like the category disappeared about a month ago? Twitch probably got tired of banning them and dealing with it. Also they were running afoul of some UK laws most likely.

I would like to have Tom whisper “Chick Parabola” slowly into the microphone.

Do you want to bring all the boys to the yard? Because that’s how you bring all the boys to the yard.

Grrrrrowl.