'It only unfairly furthers an existing advantage over other channels by exploiting community members' good faith willingness to pay to support the streamer, and it does not make up for any deeper existing discoverability and usability failings,' reads another. Instead of having a 'boost' feature, why not work on a better way to make smaller content creators to be discovered?' reads one comment.
'I wish you and the team would stop trying to push features like this. For instance, one comment suggests that partnered streamers shouldn't be able to use the feature, otherwise the feature could disproportionately help bigger streamers instead of boosting those who would benefit more from the exposure. Looking at the Twitch UserVoice platform for feedback, the top voted comments are negative. However, it's already received a backlash from the Twitch community. It also appears that streamers can pay to boost their own stream, essentially paying for self-promotion.Īs it's currently a test, this is only available for a limited number of streamers. This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies.
