<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9136843" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="abby-rao">Abby Rao</keyword> is a content creator and co-founder of the <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@clubhousebh?lang=en">Clubhouse</a>, a new TikTok collab house in Beverly Hills. </li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/ricegum-twitch-ban-abby-rao-break-up-2020-4">RiceGum</a>, whose given name is Bryan Le, is a YouTube and Twitch personality who originally made his name online through diss tracks, roasts, feuds, and "edgy" humor. </li><li>Le and Rao's yearlong relationship was featured heavily on the <keyword id="9035199" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ricegum">RiceGum</keyword> and FamilyGum YouTube channels, until Le's behavior on Twitch drove a wedge between the two. </li><li>Since their breakup in <a href="https://twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1196891458353192963?s=20">mid-November</a>, Rao says she has been living with daily online harassment by users who appear to be RiceGum fans. </li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Abby Rao — the popular Instagram model and TikToker — is ready to put her painful public breakup behind her. But that's easier said than done, when your ex is Bryan Le: <a href="https://www.insider.com/ricegum-twitch-ban-abby-rao-break-up-2020-4">the embattled YouTube and Twitch personality</a> known online as RiceGum. Six months after their split, Rao says she's still getting spammed with comments and messages from Le's hardcore fans on a daily basis. Their burn of choice? "Rice made you." They've even got a hashtag going (#RiceMadeAbby) to underscore the point. "Imagine talking shit to the guy that made u famous," one commenter wrote under one of Rao's recent bikini pics. "Stop biting the hand that fed you," another chimed in. <blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:800; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~800;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BxGNWrYBpD8" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank"></a> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by RiceGum (@rice) on May 5, 2019 at 3:06pm PDT<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2019-05-05T22:06:42+00:00">May 5, 2019 at 3:06pm PDT</time></div></blockquote>The kind of online hate Rao is receiving will sound familiar to those who recall the blood-letting YouTuber Alissa Violet endured following her messy <a href="https://www.insider.com/youtube-breakups-power-couple-splits-drama-2020-2">breakups</a> with Jake Paul and FaZe Banks, or the relentless accusations of <a href="https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/keemstar-blasts-corinna-kopf-following-tfue-breakup-sucking-clout-776765">clout-chasing</a> and <a href="https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/corinna-kopf-responds-claim-gold-digger-dating-tfue-553529">gold-digging</a> Corinna Kopf dealt with during and after her romance with fellow gamer Turner "Tfue" Tenney.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Pouty Girl (@CorinnaKopf) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1210715751730032642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2019</a></blockquote>Until now, Rao has remained relatively silent on this harassment, and how it's impacted her life and career. With more than a million followers on TikTok and almost two million on Instagram, it's worth noting that Rao is now an influential creator in her own right. Recently, she co-founded <keyword id="9136845" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="the-clubhouse">the Clubhouse</keyword> Beverly Hills, a new TikTok collab house, with the help of <a href="https://www.insider.com/daisy-keech-why-she-left-the-hype-house-2020-3">Hype House veteran Daisy Keech</a> and social media stuntwoman Kinsey Wolanski. And lately, she's been spending more and more time in the studio, working on a foray into music. But this week, Rao hit a breaking point. And in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJUdzNn2018&amp;feature=youtu.beu.be">confessional</a> uploaded to YouTube on Monday, she finally addressed the hate head-on. "So I want to start off by saying that I don't even wanna be filming this video really," Rao opened the clip. "I am sad that this is the way that I am starting my channel...It's kind of just like, an obligation to myself to respond to, kind of, just all of the hate that I'm getting right now, mainly from my ex's fans."<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GJUdzNn2018" frameborder="0"></iframe>RiceGum debuted the pair's relationship in a YouTube video on January 11. According to Rao, she and Le dated for "over a year," and "almost immediately" started living together in the Clout House. Le is now living in an apartment, having moved out of the $12 million Hollywood Hills home when FaZe Banks (and the rest of FaZe Clan) <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/faze-clan-collab-house-mansion-los-angeles-rent-details-history-2020-4">relocated.</a>"It's kind of a downgrade, but look, this is what I'm working with," Le said in <a href="https://youtu.be/fNfrhDGz-rE">a tour</a> of his new digs. Over the course of their relationship, Rao appeared in a number of Le's vlogs and live streams — an offer he extended and she accepted in an effort to be supportive. Soon, pranking and challenging Rao became a mainstay source of comedy on Le's YouTube channel, as well as the "FamilyGum" channel he created to capitalize on the internet's love of creator couples. Memorably, Rao allowed Le to vlog her breast augmentation last year. And once, she even agreed to get <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AaumGYTOJo">an impromptu tattoo</a> in Le's honor for a video. Rao told Insider that she was never compensated for any of those appearances, and never asked to be. Contrary to rumors circulating amongst RiceGum fans, Le did not, as a enraged commenter recently put it on Instagram, "pay for [Rao's] boob job" or "pave the way" for her career, according to Rao. Rao has repeatedly acknowledged that she "learned so much" from watching Le work. But, in many ways, Rao's career was sidelined during her relationship with Le. "I think I just loved him so much that I ended up putting myself second," Rao reflected. "I ignored myself for a really long time. And now, that's over. And I'm going to just focus on myself and do what I know that I'm meant to do in life. "I'm glad it happened," she continued. "Everything happens for a reason. But I think that it was definitely — I definitely lost myself focusing on another person."<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:800; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~800;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-vQS-aDO9M" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">@rice explains why him &amp; @abbyrao broke up #PNN - - - - - - #ricegum #abbyrao #breakup #brokeup #explanation #youtube #youtuber #youtubers #clubhouse #theclubhouse #youtubedrama #drama #stream #streaming #onlinestreaming #live #livestream #livestreaming</a> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by #PNN (@pescatore.news.network) on Apr 8, 2020 at 4:32pm PDT<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2020-04-08T23:32:35+00:00">Apr 8, 2020 at 4:32pm PDT</time></div></blockquote>According to Rao, the real sticking point in the relationship wasn't money, clout, or competing ambitions. It was Twitch. And, more specifically, built-up "resentment" between Rao and Le over his behavior on the platform, where he regularly plays Fortnite. Earlier this month, Le was banned from Twitch following incidents that, by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-x1g9njSyG/">his own admission</a>, violated <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/p/legal/community-guidelines/">community guidelines</a>. "A few months into our relationship, he started doing these live streams with girls and just the conversations, and the narrative of the content was just not something I was comfortable with," Rao said. "And so it caused a rift in our relationship. And he took that as me not supporting him...I just feel like what he really wanted to do was not something that I aligned with, like, morally."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—SFTY YouTube (@SFTYNetwork) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1248074482809548802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2020</a></blockquote>On Youtube, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmriDOafDak">examples</a> of Le's "edgy" live<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tshqoER-0Gk"> streams</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2yR5mTwzh4">with women</a> are still floating around. In one, Le asks two women to kiss and twerk on camera for his viewers."Like, he has so much talent," Rao said of Le. "To be live and to entertain that many people and keep a show going alive is something that's really hard to do. And I just felt like his talent could have been put to so much better use and I just felt like, why did his content have to be disrespectful towards me to be comedy?"Eventually, Rao stopped pushing the issue, deciding instead to take a step back from the relationship and let Le "do his thing.""But I do wish him the best, and I wish that he would see the good he could do," she added. "And I think he still has time to turn that around. Like, I hope he does. I really hope he does. I really do want what's best for him."Le did not immediately respond for comment. <ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/ricegum-twitch-ban-abby-rao-break-up-2020-4">Popular YouTuber RiceGum hosted a Twitch livestream that seemingly got him banned for nudity and called out by his ex-girlfriend</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/tiktok-hype-house-facing-power-struggle-legal-dispute-2020-3">A power struggle and trademark dispute are rocking TikTok's Hype House as the influencer collective finds fame and fortune</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/daisy-keech-why-she-left-the-hype-house-2020-3">'The truth about the Hype House': A former member of the blockbuster TikTok crew is speaking out about problems she saw while living there</a></li></ul>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/abby-rao-breakup-with-ricegum-online-harassment-and-twitch-2020-4">Insider</a>

Influencer Abby Rao says Twitch caused 'a rift' in her relationship her ex and YouTube star RiceGum

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9035199" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ricegum">RiceGum</keyword> is famous for stirring the pot among other creators. Now, he's banned from streaming on <keyword id="1754577" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Twitch">Twitch</keyword> after seemingly allowing partial nudity on his channel and shading his ex-girlfriend. </li><li>"I'm gonna take this time to reflect on mistakes," he said in a tweet on Wednesday, April 8.</li><li>The 23-year-old, whose real name is Bryan Le, has <a href="https://etcanada.com/news/342831/youtuber-ricegum-faces-backlash-over-ignorant-hong-kong-travel-video/">faced a fair share of controversy</a> in the five years since he started vlogging. </li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>RiceGum, the popular YouTuber and video game streamer, is a man of many trades. With 10.6 million subscribers, he makes music videos, video game streams, vlogs, a popular series making fun of TikTok stars, and diss tracks. The YouTuber, whose real name is Bryan Le, has also <a href="https://etcanada.com/news/342831/youtuber-ricegum-faces-backlash-over-ignorant-hong-kong-travel-video/">faced a fair share of controversy</a> in the five years since he started vlogging — viewers even compared an offensive video he filmed in Hong Kong to Logan Paul's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/logan-paul-suicide-video-copy-reaches-top-trending-on-youtube-2018-1">infamously problematic Japan vlog</a>. Now, Le says he's been banned from using Twitch, the video game streaming platform he previously frequented. "I'm gonna take this time to reflect on mistakes," he said in a tweet on Wednesday, April 8.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—RiceGum (@RiceGum) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1248018121102725129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2020</a></blockquote>As of Thursday afternoon, Le's Twitch channel remained inactive. Twitch did not immediately return Insider's request for comment. <div type="image" title="Screen Shot 2020 04 09 at 4.13.20 PM" height="680" width="906" msid="75081238" hostid="261"></div><h2>He was seemingly banned from Twitch for showing nudity during one of his streams </h2><a href="https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ricegum-reacts-to-getting-banned-on-twitch-after-controversial-stream-1351134">According to Dexerto.com</a>, the ban happened soon after RiceGum <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmriDOafDak">streamed</a> with two women. At one point in the stream, one of the women appeared to show her butt on-camera. Le quickly took down the stream of the women, apologizing to fans, but then instructed fans to continue watching them on his Instagram Live stream. <h2>TikTok star Daisy Keech posted a Story calling out RiceGum for bad-mouthing his ex, Abby Rao</h2><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-vQS-aDO9M/?hl=en">In the same stream that seemingly got him banned</a>, Le spoke about why he and his ex-girlfriend, influencer Abby Rao, broke up. "The main thing is like, she just didn't support me," he said, adding some expletives, also calling her, "clingy."Rao responded on her Instagram Story on Wednesday. "I just want to start crying honestly," she said. "I've tried to be nice, I've tried. He made me not want to be with him anymore." <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—SFTY YouTube (@SFTYYouTube) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1248074482809548802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2020</a></blockquote>Daisy Keech, the TikTok star who recently made waves <a href="https://www.insider.com/daisy-keech-why-she-left-the-hype-house-2020-3">for leaving the Hype House</a>, posted a scathing Story on Wednesday defending Rao, a close friend of hers. "She is the most supportive friend I have ever had in my entire life, and I know for a fact she was like that with Bryan as well," Keech said. <h2>RiceGum is a popular YouTuber known for his controversial diss tracks — and he even made the Billboard Hot 100 for a song about Jake Paul</h2>The 23-year-old's rise to YouTube stardom can largely be attributed to his other controversies, including his diss tracks. Perhaps the most famous one was "Its EveryNight Sis," a parody of Jake Paul's song, "It's Every Day Bro," which has amassed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zy28mVeVZw">180 million views on YouTube</a> since its June 2017 release. The video featured Alissa Violet, Paul's ex-girlfriend. "Stop bragging, just accept nobody knows your Disney show," Le raps on the diss track, referring to Paul's role on Disney Channel's "Bizaardvark." The rap goes into more curse-laden lines about Paul allegedly cheating on his girlfriend and bullying kids in high school. The song made it onto the <a href="https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/columns/hip-hop/7948947/its-everynight-sis-youtube-war-jake-paul-alissa-violet">Billboard Hot 100 in 2017</a>. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Zy28mVeVZw" frameborder="0"></iframe>His <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MeImm8m8Bw">latest release</a>, "DaAdult," appears to make fun of rapper DaBaby. Le was in the news with Paul again in 2019, after both <keyword id="860150" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="YouTubers">YouTubers</keyword> <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/1/4/18167341/youtube-jake-paul-ricegum-mystery-brand">promoted a company called Mystery Brand</a> that appeared to encourage gambling-style activities to their young followers. <h2>RiceGum has been compared to Jake Paul's older brother, Logan </h2>Despite Le's beef with the younger Paul, he's been compared to Jake Paul's older brother, Logan. The elder Paul received widespread backlash in January 2018 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-star-logan-paul-apologised-after-filming-a-dead-body-in-japans-suicide-forest-2018-1">for posting a YouTube video from Japan's so-called "suicide forest,"</a> actually named the Aokigahara forest, after discovering a dead body. Paul blurred out the individual's face, but showed their dead body on-camera. He soon deleted the video and <a href="https://twitter.com/LoganPaul/status/948026294066864128">issued an apology</a>. In June 2018, <a href="https://etcanada.com/news/342831/youtuber-ricegum-faces-backlash-over-ignorant-hong-kong-travel-video/">viewers compared a new RiceGum video to Paul's misstep</a>, as the YouTuber approached locals in Hong Kong and asked where he could procure "dog meat" to eat. "In China there's always jokes about, like, Asians eating cats and dogs and, like, I'm in China and I've been kind of looking for the past hour, and I haven't seen a restaurant or anything serving that," he said in the video. That video is especially poignant now, as the spread of the novel coronavirus has quickly led to racism and xenophobia towards Asians worldwide and their eating habits, as <a href="https://www.eater.com/2020/1/31/21117076/coronavirus-incites-racism-against-chinese-people-and-their-diets-wuhan-market">Eater reported.</a> Le apologized for his behavior in a subsequent video. "White people make white jokes and hispanic people make hispanic jokes, and I thought because I'm Asian, I was allowed to make these Asian stereotype jokes," he said. Actor and YouTube cooking show host Jimmy Wong criticized the apology. "Who you become as RiceGum in your videos is disrespectful, ignorant, borderline racist, &amp; shameful to all creators, especially Asians," he <a href="https://twitter.com/jfwong/status/1012097075054403584">said in a tweet</a>. <ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/daisy-keech-why-she-left-the-hype-house-2020-3">'The truth about the Hype House': A former member of the blockbuster TikTok crew is speaking out about problems she saw while living there</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/youtube-controversies-that-happened-so-far-in-2019-7">Here are all the YouTube controversies that have happened so far in 2019</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/tiktok-hype-house-facing-power-struggle-legal-dispute-2020-3">A power struggle and trademark dispute are rocking TikTok's Hype House as the influencer collective finds fame and fortune</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/logan-paul-track-meet-challenger-games-fastest-youtuber-contestants-list-2019-7">Logan Paul is holding a race on Saturday to find the fastest YouTuber, and the winner gets $100,000. Here's who is competing.</a></li></ul>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/ricegum-twitch-ban-abby-rao-break-up-2020-4">Insider</a>

Popular YouTuber RiceGum hosted a Twitch livestream that seemingly got him banned for nudity and called out by his ex-girlfriend

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="1754577" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Twitch">Twitch</keyword> streamer Alinity Divine was suspended from Twitch after fans complained about her nip slip during an April 24 broadcast.</li><li>The suspension comes after a string of suspensions related to Twitch's sometimes controversial nudity policy.</li><li>Alinity has a storied history on the live-streaming platform, as she has faced allegations of animal abuse. </li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul><keyword id="572624" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Streaming">Streaming</keyword> platform Twitch has suspended another popular account for nudity. But this time, fans were actually calling for her removal.As <a href="https://www.dailydot.com/irl/alinity-suspended-twitch-nip-slip/">first reported by Daily Dot.</a> Alinity Divine's account was removed from Twitch after her breast was shown on-camera during an April 24 stream. Alinity, whose real name is Natalia Mogollon, deleted the video, but viewers had saved and re-posted it on the service. She confirmed on Twitter on April 25 that she'd been temporarily suspended from Twitch for three days. "I'm getting a suspension," she said in a tongue-in-cheek tweet. "Our hard work finally paid off good job guys." <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Alinity (@AlinityTwitch) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1254204292312924160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2020</a></blockquote>As of Monday morning, the <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/alinity">suspension has been lifted</a>, but the most recent clips available on her page are from 2017.Twitch fans have waged battles against Mogollon in the past. Last summer, a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/twitch-ban-alinity-on-twitch">petition</a> circulated to ban her over <a href="https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/peta-demands-twitch-ban-alinity-over-dog-drama-1295787">allegations of animal abuse against</a> her pets, after she <a href="https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/alinity-under-fire-throwing-cat-twitch-stream-821909">appeared to throw her cat</a> during a stream. It now has more than 55,000 signatures. In December, PETA said in a statement that the organization "demanded Twitch take her off of the platform." Mogollon has repeatedly denied the allegations. The suspension over nudity comes amid a long line of removals from the platform. <a href="https://www.insider.com/ricegum-twitch-ban-abby-rao-break-up-2020-4">YouTuber and Twitch streamer RiceGum</a> was suspended on April 8 after a woman on his stream appeared to show one of her breasts, <a href="https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ricegum-reacts-to-getting-banned-on-twitch-after-controversial-stream-1351134">Dexerto reported</a>. Twitch user and body painter MizzyRose recently received a one-day suspension for nudity, despite body art being one exception to the platform's strict nudity guidelines. Given her controversial history, <a href="https://www.dailydot.com/irl/alinity-divine-nip-slip/">viewers took to Twitter</a> asking for her removal after the April 24 stream in which she lifted her shirt and accidentally revealed her nipple. <a href="https://twitter.com/CandyCakesTV/status/1253945457501368320">One user called Twitch's initial reluctance</a> to take down her page "a slap in the face to all female body paint streamers who have been banned for less." Representatives for Mogollon and Twitch did not immediately return Insider's request for comment. <ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/twitch-body-painters-suspension-sparking-discussion-about-misogyny-2020-4">A body painter says she was wrongfully suspended from Twitch for nudity despite the platform's rules providing exceptions for art</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/ricegum-twitch-ban-abby-rao-break-up-2020-4">Popular YouTuber RiceGum hosted a Twitch livestream that seemingly got him banned for nudity and called out by his ex-girlfriend</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/streaming-services-have-to-start-thinking-about-mental-health-2020-2">Video game streaming platforms like Twitch want to look after their users' mental health, but it's only going to get harder as the industry grows</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/drake-partners-with-live-streaming-platform-caffeine-for-rap-battles-2020-2">Drake just signed a multiyear deal to produce rap battles on a live-streaming platform</a></li></ul>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/twitch-suspends-alinity-divine-nip-slip-animal-abuse-2020-4">Insider</a>

Twitch suspends controversial streamer after she accidentally showed her nipple during a broadcast

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="1754577" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Twitch">Twitch</keyword> has formed a Safety Advisory Council to help the live-streaming platform create and shape its policies. </li><li>The eight-person board includes Twitch streamers, non-profit executives, and professors. </li><li>The news comes after months of criticism from users of the platform who say Twitch is too strict with nudity and doles out undue bans. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Twitch, the Amazon-owned live-streaming platform popular among <keyword id="2440542" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="eSports">esports</keyword> stars and video gamers, has announced a new Safety Advisory Council to help "inform and guide" policies. The board will not make moderation decisions, according to a representative, but will help shape the platform's policies on bans, nudity, age limits, and inappropriate behavior, among other things. <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/cohhcarnage">CohhCarnage</a>, <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/cupahnoodle">Cupahnoodle</a>, <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/ferociouslysteph" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FerociouslySteph</a>, and <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/zizaran">Zizaran</a> are hugely popular Twitch streamers who make up half of the eight-person board, as announced on May 14.The group also includes Alex Holmes, the deputy CEO at <a href="https://diana-award.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Diana Award</a>, a non-profit organization founded in the memory of Princess Diana that focuses on young people and how they can change the world; Emma Llansó, the director of the <a href="https://cdt.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Democracy &amp; Technology's</a> Free Expression Project and an expert on free speech and how it pertains to the internet; Sameer Hinduja, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Florida Atlantic University and co-director of the <a href="https://cyberbullying.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cyberbullying Research Center</a>; and T.L. Taylor, a professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT and the co-founder and Director of Research for <a href="https://www.anykey.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AnyKey</a>, which supports inclusion in esports. "When developing this council we felt it was essential to include both experts who can provide an external perspective, as well as Twitch streamers who deeply understand creators' unique challenges and viewpoints," the company said in a <a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2020/05/14/introducing-the-twitch-safety-advisory-council/">press release</a>. "We will continue to invest in tools, products, and policies that promote the safety and wellbeing of everyone on Twitch." The announcement follows <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/opinion/facebook-oversight-board.html">Facebook's decision to employ an independent advisory board</a> to provide oversight on difficult topics including hate speech and harassment. Unlike Twitch's board, the Facebook Oversight Board will "make final and binding decisions on whether specific content should be allowed or removed from Facebook and Instagram," according to an op-ed written by co-chairs of the board for The New York Times. <h2>The news also comes after months of criticism from users of the platform who say Twitch is too strict with its nudity policies and often hands out undue bans to its streamers.</h2>MizzyRose, a 22-year-old body painter from British Columbia who has more than 140,000 Twitch followers, v<a href="https://www.insider.com/twitch-body-painters-suspension-sparking-discussion-about-misogyny-2020-4">oiced frustration over her own one-day suspension</a> on Twitter in April. In a tweet, which has since been deleted, she said that she'd done "nothing wrong" to deserve the strike. "Someone is wrongfully banning on Twitch's end," she said. Others who have criticized bans over nudity include <a href="https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/alinity-slams-twitch-over-big-problem-with-its-ban-policy-1360818">Alinity Divine</a> and <a href="https://www.insider.com/ricegum-twitch-ban-abby-rao-break-up-2020-4">RiceGum</a>. Last month, apparently in response to some of the backlash, Twitch <a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2020/04/07/update-to-our-nudity-and-attire-policy/">announced</a> extremely specific guidelines over nudity. "For those who present as women, we ask that you cover your nipples. We do not permit exposed underbust. Cleavage is unrestricted as long as these coverage requirements are met," the company said in a press release. Zizaran, one of the four Twitch partners on the board, "looks forward to helping Twitch make rules clearer and reducing community confusion, specifically when it comes to bans and suspensions on the platform," according to Twitch's press release. <ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/twitch-body-painters-suspension-sparking-discussion-about-misogyny-2020-4">A body painter says she was wrongfully suspended from Twitch for nudity despite the platform's rules providing exceptions for art</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/twitch-suspends-alinity-divine-nip-slip-animal-abuse-2020-4">Twitch suspended a controversial streamer after she accidentally showed her nipple during a broadcast</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/ricegum-twitch-ban-abby-rao-break-up-2020-4">Popular YouTuber RiceGum hosted a Twitch livestream that seemingly got him banned for nudity and called out by his ex-girlfriend</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-subscribe-on-twitch">How to subscribe to a channel on Twitch to show your support and unlock exclusive features</a></li></ul>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitch-safety-advisory-council-board-help-guide-policies-ban-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

Twitch is launching an advisory council that includes top streamers in the wake of months of criticism over controversial bans

<ul class="summary-list"><li>On Thursday, esports organization <keyword id="3397297" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="FaZe-Clan">FaZe Clan</keyword> cut ties with several members.</li><li>They were promoters and backers of the Save the Kids cryptocurrency, which has plummeted in value.</li><li>Some influencers have been promoting alternative coins, leading to allegations of scams.</li></ul>Influencers with millions of followers like Sommer Ray, RiceGum, and members of the esports organization FaZe Clan excitedly backed the June 5 announcement of Save the Children, a new cryptocurrency. According to the new token's website, which has since been taken offline, the crypto venture had "a mission to build a better world for kids" and promised to donate a small portion of the proceeds to charity. Now, FaZe Clan, a successful esports organization and influencer incubator, has suspended four members involved with the cryptocurrency coin, with some online accusing the coin of being a scam. The currency's price hit a high of nearly half a penny before plummeting 60% in value throughout June, following a recent trend of alternative currencies becoming increasingly popular products for internet stars to promote. <a href="https://kotaku.com/faze-clan-fires-kay-suspends-three-other-members-over-1847216513">As Kotaku reported</a>, tons of fans "pumped money into this scheme, believing their investment was protected by the high profile of those endorsing it, only to see their money disappear almost overnight." The influencers who once posed in promotional videos for the coin have now deleted all of their Twitter posts about it, though Insider could not confirm when creators began removing such content.Frazier Kay, a popular member of the FaZe Clan who had promoted the coin on his 880,000 Twitter followers, tweeted on <a href="https://twitter.com/FaZeKay/status/1409221680178909184">Sunday that</a> he "had no ill intent promoting any crypto alt coins."Five days later, the FaZe Clan's official account tweeted that Kay would be removed from the esports group, along with the suspensions of three other members who had promoted the coin, Jarvis Khattri, Nikan Nadim, and Teeqo. "Faze Clan had absolutely no involvement with our members' activity in the cryptocurrency space and we strongly condemn their recent behavior," the account said.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-FaZe Clan (@FaZeClan) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1410745951120101378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2021</a></blockquote>"I think FaZe knew that it was really bad," YouTuber Coffeezilla, who has been reporting on online scams on his 450,000 subscriber YouTube channel for the past two years, told Insider. "They had to draw a line in the sand between people who are in their org doing things the right way and people who are doing this crypto nonsense."Other YouTubers who purchased the coin have since responded to the controversy.Joel Morris, a YouTuber with over 2.4 million subscribers, wrote in a <a href="https://medium.com/@jmx2525/an-official-statement-eaa9aa78ae58">statement published Friday </a>that he had purchased tokens in the pre-sale but "panicked and started to sell off parts of my tokens to avoid losing money."Kay, Teeqo, Khattri, and Nadim did not respond to requests for comment. <h2>Altcoins being promoted by influencers have become a popular but risky trend</h2>Altcoins, or alternative <keyword id="2420795" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="cryptocurrencies">cryptocurrencies</keyword> to popular staples like Bitcoin and Ethereum, have been steadily growing in popularity. Coins like DogeCoin, Ethereum Max, and SafeMoon, have all grown through popular online followings and the chance of getting rich quickly.Influencers have also promoted their own controversial tokens that often plummet in value. On April 30, influencer Tana Mongeau posted an <a href="https://twitter.com/defnoodles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1388320690139320324%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Finfluencers-altcoin-scamscams">Instagram Story promoting TitsCoin, </a>saying that her "ownership" in the coin bought her a "beautiful Rolls Royce."Historically, these influencer-promoted coins spike in value before plummeting. These coins come with major financial risks of "rug pulls," where coin creators can just vanish with large amounts of money. These newly formed cryptocurrencies are mostly unregulated in the United States. In December 2020, <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/15/2021-01016/requirements-for-certain-transactions-involving-convertible-virtual-currency-or-digital-assets">the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network</a> proposed that virtual currency should be regulated like traditional currency.

FaZe Clan members suspended following allegations that their Save the Kids cryptocurrency may have been a scam

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="1754577" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Twitch">Twitch</keyword> streamer <keyword id="9106818" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="invadervie">InvaderVIe</keyword> apologized on Wednesday for "tone-deaf, insensitive" comments in which she previously said that anyone watching her online could afford her full membership fee. Viewers said she tried to "shame" them into giving money to the creator. </li><li>Her previous comments had made waves online, as viewers felt she was being insensitive towards the millions worldwide who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic.</li><li>"What I said was tone-deaf, insensitive, and stupid," InvaderVie said on Wednesday. "I recognize that there is no context I could give that would excuse what I said. I can only own what I said, and I will." </li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>A Twitch streamer who previously said that broke viewers who couldn't afford her full subscription fee "should be working" has apologized for "insensitive and stupid" comments."What I said was tone-deaf, insensitive, and stupid," InvaderVie said during a livestream on Wednesday. "I recognize that there is no context I could give that would excuse what I said. I can only own what I said, and I will." <iframe src="https://clips.twitch.tv/embed?clip=MoralDarlingAlfalfaStrawBeary" frameborder="0" height="378" width="620"></iframe>During her April 14 broadcast, the streamer had said she was bothered by viewers who watched for free and claimed they couldn't afford to pay for her subscription. "If you don't have $10, you probably don't have time to watch Twitch, because you should be working," she said.When commenters said that they could only afford to pay for their food and bills, she doubled down. "No one's going to convince me that what I'm saying is so rude, or so unacceptable, or so outrageous. It just simply isn't," she said. Viewers among her 148,000 Twitch followers said <a href="https://twitter.com/TejaFX/status/1251911753300140033">she had tried to "shame" them</a> into giving money. But on Wednesday, she changed her tune. InVaderVie, a 29-year-old from Toronto whose real name is not publicly shared, said the comments were incongruous with what she believes. "The clip that you saw does not represent my true feelings. I've streamed for hundreds of hours and I've said, 'support communities after you support yourself first. Subscribe if you have the disposable income to do so.' But in that clip, I expressed opinions that I do not hold, at all. I said things that I don't mean, and they were vile," she said. <iframe src="https://clips.twitch.tv/embed?clip=WimpyTacitDootKappaWealth" frameborder="0" height="378" width="620"></iframe>Her previous comments had made waves online, as viewers felt she was being insensitive towards the millions worldwide who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic. Unemployment rates in the US are <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/economic-outlook-coronavirus-labor-market-unemployment-rapid-recovery-recession-experts-2020-4">approaching Great Depression levels</a>.Influencers and celebrities have found themselves in hot water during the pandemic, as they appear to be increasingly <a href="https://www.insider.com/quarantine-flexing-on-instagram-rich-and-famous-brag-with-backyards-2020-4">out of touch with their fans</a>. The streamer said she now understands that she made a mistake by judging her viewers and their financial situations."What I said was wrong in any context, but especially in the context of a global pandemic. It was very callous and inappropriate," she said. "I know that you've lost jobs. I know that you're afraid for your own security, and I know that what I said was incredibly hurtful and wrong. And I take responsibility for it."<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/invadervie-twitch-streamer-video-shames-broke-viewers-into-giving-money-2020-4">Twitch streamer faces backlash for 'shaming' broke viewers while asking for money: 'If you don't have $10, you probably don't have time to watch Twitch, because you should be working'</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/economic-outlook-imf-global-gdp-shrinkage-coronavirus-too-optimistic-says-2020-4">IMF chief says its forecast that 170 global economies will shrink may be too optimistic</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/twitch-body-painters-suspension-sparking-discussion-about-misogyny-2020-4">A body painter says she was wrongfully suspended from Twitch for nudity despite the platform's rules providing exceptions for art</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/ricegum-twitch-ban-abby-rao-break-up-2020-4">Popular YouTuber RiceGum hosted a Twitch livestream that seemingly got him banned for nudity and called out by his ex-girlfriend</a></li></ul>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/invadervie-twitch-apology-streamer-tone-deaf-broke-viewers-comments-2020-4">Insider</a>

The Twitch streamer who said broke viewers 'should be working' apologized after intense backlash, calling her comments 'tone-deaf'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A <keyword id="1754577" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Twitch">Twitch</keyword> streamer has faced backlash for her comments that anyone watching her channel can afford the subscription fee. </li><li>"It doesn't matter how broke you are. If you have time to watch Twitch, you have $10," InvaderVie said. "If you don't have $10, you probably don't have time to watch Twitch, because you should be working, you should be trying to earn money." </li><li>The streamer added that $5 or $10 doesn't equate to the cost of a full meal, and called viewers who can't afford to subscribe "irresponsible" with money. </li><li>InvaderVie's comments come on the brink of a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/economic-outlook-imf-global-gdp-shrinkage-coronavirus-too-optimistic-says-2020-4">worldwide economic crisis</a> due to the coronavirus. </li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>A popular Twitch streamer is facing backlash after criticizing her viewers for being too poor to subscribe and support her channel, and suggesting that anyone without $5 or $10 to spend is "irresponsible." <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/invadervie/">InvaderVie</a>, who has 144,944 followers and lives in Toronto, according to her Twitch channel, asked her viewers in an April 14 broadcast to pay the full subscription price for her channel for $4.99 per month. Viewers can watch certain clips without paying the subscription fee, but InvaderVie argued that anyone should be able to afford the fee and support her in her job as a creator. She said she believed that in any currency, the maximum fee would be $10. "It doesn't matter how broke you are. If you have time to watch Twitch, you have $10," said InvaderVie, whose real name has not been made public. "If you don't have $10, you probably don't have time to watch Twitch, because you should be working, you should be trying to earn money." <iframe src="https://clips.twitch.tv/embed?clip=SmoothBlueArmadilloKeepo" frameborder="0" height="378" width="620"></iframe>When someone commented that they were unemployed and all of their money had to go towards necessities like food and shelter, she doubled down, adding that she didn't believe her comments were offensive. "No one's going to convince me that what I'm saying is so rude, or so unacceptable, or so outrageous. It just simply isn't," she said. The streamer, who is 29 and <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/invadervie/">works as a voice-over actress part-time</a> in addition to Twitch, added that $5 or $10 doesn't equate to the cost of a full meal, so she wasn't asking for much, and said that viewers who claim to be too "broke" to subscribe are actually "irresponsible" with their own finances. "What you mean to say is, 'I'm so irresponsible with my money, I can't support the entertainment that I enjoy.'" InvaderVie's comments come on the brink of a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/economic-outlook-imf-global-gdp-shrinkage-coronavirus-too-optimistic-says-2020-4">worldwide economic crisis</a> due to the coronavirus, as unemployment rates in the US approach <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/upshot/coronavirus-jobless-rate-great-depression.html">Great Depression levels</a>.While some viewers commented during the stream that they were also broke and there were "no excuses" for not subscribing to the channel, others complained about the statements in comments on Twitch and on Twitter. Another streamer asked on Twitter if InvaderVie pays for a full subscription to every streamer she watches. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Preston (@Prestinni) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1251582001225830401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2020</a></blockquote>Others joked that they were "too irresponsible" to be able to watch the streams. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Ariel Camacho (@DarkWareA) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1251780960762376192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2020</a></blockquote>InvaderVie's controversial comments come as influencers and celebrities have faced <a href="https://www.insider.com/quarantine-flexing-on-instagram-rich-and-famous-brag-with-backyards-2020-4">backlash</a> for making out-of-touch posts and gotten <a href="https://www.insider.com/arielle-charnas-faces-backlash-for-behavior-following-covid-19-2020-3">preferential treatment</a> in an environment of heightened need and anxiety.At press time, the streamer did not respond to emails from Insider. <ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/economic-outlook-imf-global-gdp-shrinkage-coronavirus-too-optimistic-says-2020-4">IMF chief says its forecast that 170 global economies will shrink may be too optimistic</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-weekly-jobless-claims-unemployment-filings-record-labor-market-coronavirus-2020-4">US jobless claims skyrocket to 6.6 million, doubling last week's record, as coronavirus layoffs persist</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/twitch-body-painters-suspension-sparking-discussion-about-misogyny-2020-4">A body painter says she was wrongfully suspended from Twitch for nudity despite the platform's rules providing exceptions for art</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/ricegum-twitch-ban-abby-rao-break-up-2020-4">Popular YouTuber RiceGum hosted a Twitch livestream that seemingly got him banned for nudity and called out by his ex-girlfriend</a></li></ul>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/invadervie-twitch-streamer-video-shames-broke-viewers-into-giving-money-2020-4">Insider</a>

Twitch streamer faces backlash for 'shaming' broke viewers while asking for money: 'If you don't have $10, you probably don't have time to watch Twitch, because you should be working'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Steph "FerociouslySteph" Loehr is facing harassment on <keyword id="1754577" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Twitch">Twitch</keyword> for her comments against the platform's voice chat feature, which she said can be non-inclusive. </li><li>Loehr said that her stance has been misconstrued by users who believed she would seek to remove the voice chat capability, a feature that allows gamers to communicate during competitions, from the platform.</li><li>"The harassment is extreme, I'm exhausted," Loehr, who is a member of Twitch's new Safety Advisory Council, told Insider in an email.</li><li>"Innumerable threats of violence, impersonating accounts being offensive, my personal info being revealed. I don't think anyone can be prepared for this level of negative attention," she said. </li></ul>A popular Twitch streamer is facing harassment on the platform after the Amazon-owned live-streaming website announced her inclusion in an eight-person Safety Advisory Council. Steph Loehr, who uses the handle <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/ferociouslysteph/">FerociouslySteph</a> online, told Insider that she is facing "threats of violence" because of her stance on the platform's voice chat feature, which Loehr said poses an "unfair" problem for users participating in streams. In a <a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2020/05/14/introducing-the-twitch-safety-advisory-council/">Twitch post</a> on May 14 announcing the council, which will help "inform and guide" policies, the company said Loehr opposed "non inclusive mechanics such as voice chat."Loehr said that her stance has been misconstrued by users who believed she would seek to remove the voice chat capability, a feature that allows gamers to communicate during competitions, from the platform. As a member of the Safety Advisory Council, Loehr will not have direct decisionmaking responsibilities, but will "advise, offer perspective, and participate in discussions," Twitch CEO Emmett Shear <a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2020/05/19/a-note-from-emmett-about-the-safety-advisory-council/">said in a blog post on May 19</a>. In an email to Insider, Loehr, who was one of the platform's first trans partners, explained that she is against voice chat because upon hearing one's voice, other users can make "people feel lesser about you or your play or harass you." Loehr has more than 21,000 followers on <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/ferociouslysteph/followers">Twitch</a>, where she has been live-streaming fulltime for four years."I feel it is unfair to the point that removing it is the most fair, but my argument was never to take voice chat away. I only wanted to raise awareness of this problem and encourage alternative communication systems to lower this gap," Loehr said. During a live-stream on May 14, <a href="https://kotaku.com/twitchs-safety-advisory-council-rollout-has-been-a-disa-1843548003">as reported by Kotaku</a>, Loehr further explained her opinions on voice chat. "If you use voice chat, you're revealing your linguistic profile, your voice, which can open you up to being harassed or considered less of a good player, because there are systemic issues with our society and how people treat nonstandard voices," she said. But some viewers were apparently incensed at the misunderstanding that Loehr's role on Twitch's council could directly threaten their ability to use voice chat. "The harassment is extreme, I'm exhausted," Loehr told Insider. "Innumerable threats of violence, impersonating accounts being offensive, my personal info being revealed. I don't think anyone can be prepared for this level of negative attention." <h2>How voice chat can lead to harassment</h2>There have been multiple publicized cases of harassment against players who have voices that "don't fit the <a href="https://kotaku.com/riot-says-it-will-curb-valorant-toxicity-after-own-empl-1843112735">standard gamer dude profile</a>," according to Kotaku. In 2012, The New York Times reporter Amy O'Leary, who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/us/sexual-harassment-in-online-gaming-stirs-anger.html">covered harassment in games</a>, <a href="https://www.npr.org/transcripts/158433079">explained on NPR</a> how voice chat can lead to harassment, noting, "women who get on with voice chat find that the minute that their voice sort of reveals their gender, they then become targets for harassment or come-ons or threats or taunts strictly because they're female."Similar harassment has been seen in the LGBTQ community. Twitch streamer OneWingedChris posted a YouTube video in 2018 documenting the excruciating harassment he experienced over voice chat after simply speaking in Overwatch.<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vm_4W2dpNVs" frameborder="0"></iframe><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitch-safety-advisory-council-board-help-guide-policies-ban-2020-5">Twitch is launching an advisory council that includes top streamers in the wake of months of criticism over controversial bans</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/twitch-body-painters-suspension-sparking-discussion-about-misogyny-2020-4">A body painter says she was wrongfully suspended from Twitch for nudity despite the platform's rules providing exceptions for art</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/twitch-suspends-alinity-divine-nip-slip-animal-abuse-2020-4">Twitch suspended a controversial streamer after she accidentally showed her nipple during a broadcast</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/ricegum-twitch-ban-abby-rao-break-up-2020-4">Popular YouTuber RiceGum hosted a Twitch livestream that seemingly got him banned for nudity and called out by his ex-girlfriend</a></li></ul>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/ferociously-steph-twitch-advisory-council-harassment-criticism-2020-5">Insider</a>

A member of Twitch's new safety council is facing harassment for criticizing voice chat as non-inclusive

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Body painter and <keyword id="1754577" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Twitch">Twitch</keyword> personality <keyword id="9054849" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mizzyrose">MizzyRose</keyword> claims she received a one-day suspension from the <keyword id="572624" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Streaming">streaming</keyword> platform for posting content of "an insufficiently covered body."</li><li>The 22-year-old contested the suspension on Twitter, arguing that her content is covered by the platform guidelines' "contextual exception" allowing body art. </li><li>The tweet received mixed reactions — and sparked conversation about a pattern of behavior that women face in the live streaming space. </li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Body painter <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/mizzyrose/">MizzyRose</a>, as she's known among her 141,000 followers, frequently transforms herself with paint and shares the results on the streaming platform Twitch. Over the weekend, she says, she received a one-day suspension from the platform for posting content that featured "a nude or insufficiently covered body."The 22-year-old artist from British Columbia took to <a href="https://twitter.com/mizzycyn">Twitter</a> to contest the suspension, posting the alleged notification from Twitch and photos of the content in question. "TWITCH HAS BANNED ME! IDC IF ITS FOR A DAY, IT STILL AFFECTS MY ACCOUNT," she wrote in the <a href="https://twitter.com/mizzycyn/status/1248949504004329472">post</a>. "I DID NOTHING WRONG. Someone is wrongfully banning on Twitch's end."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Mizzyrose (@mizzycyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1248949504004329472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2020</a></blockquote>Twitch suspensions, MizzyRose explained, can have implications for a streamer's monetization options. "Being banned at all, even for just a day impacts my account because it leaves a strike on your channel," she told Insider. "A strike can impact a partnership. I applied to be a partner before I was wrongfully banned. I'm [now] scared about what they will say or even if they'll accept me as a partner."MizzyRose went on to post photos of Twitch's "situational" and "<a href="https://www.twitch.tv/p/legal/community-guidelines/sexualcontent/">contextual exceptions</a>" to its guidelines regarding nudity. One such exception is "body art," which guidelines permit in streams "focused on actively creating content (i.e. painting)."Full chest coverage, <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/p/legal/community-guidelines/sexualcontent/">the guidelines state</a>, is not required "but those who present as women must completely cover their nipples &amp; areola with a layer of non-transparent clothing or a paint &amp; latex combination." Additionally, the coverage "must be applied before streaming begins, not on-stream."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Mizzyrose (@mizzycyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1248950544699281409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2020</a></blockquote>The Twitch personality, who has been posting <keyword id="682728" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="body-painting">body painting</keyword> videos for the last two months, added that she's been affiliated with the platform for <a href="https://twitter.com/mizzycyn/status/1248949890652094464">five years</a> — and her content creation is a "<a href="https://twitter.com/mizzycyn/status/1248960617102200832">full-time job</a>" and her "livelihood."<h2>The tweet thread has since sparked a debate about Twitch's guidelines, nudity, and who belongs on the platform. </h2>Some commenters jumped to MizzyRose's defense, arguing that her content adhered to the platform's policies. "You were completely covering any visible parts that were deemed unfit for Twitch in all the streams I've watched," one commenter <a href="https://twitter.com/gna2ly/status/1248950817291407361">wrote</a>. "Hopefully you will finish the paint you were in the middle of, was looking amazing!""That banning was total BS. Everything was within Twitch's own guidelines," another <a href="https://twitter.com/JackBundyGames/status/1248951878597001219">added</a>. The post also sparked backlash. "Wrongfully banning??" one critic <a href="https://twitter.com/LeeperGrimm/status/1249053806811402242">tweeted</a>. "This is the most naive statement that can be made with regard to what kind of content you knowingly were live streaming on a predominantly gaming platform.""You're literally naked find a new hobby," another <a href="https://twitter.com/OKCU_kaitlyn/status/1249127697344847873">wrote</a>. Others questioned the sexualization of body art. "To be honest the fixation Americans have regarding nudity is crazy. I live in a <keyword id="24504" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="culture">culture</keyword> where nudity is not inherently sexual," one commenter <a href="https://twitter.com/iidamatilda1/status/1249228871859343362">tweeted</a>. "If you watch tv shows made in my country you most likely will see nipples etc. and it is not seen as sexual."<h2>MizzyRose isn't the first body painter to run into trouble on the platform. </h2>Italian Twitch streamer Alis, who went by AlisPrayer and live-streamed body painting videos, says she was banned indefinitely from the platform on April 8. Feeling "devastated" by the ban, she took her frustrations to Twitter. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—AlisPrayer (@PrayerAlis) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1248319819272925187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2020</a></blockquote>Her post received over 2,000 likes and hundreds of comments from fans and fellow body painters. Losing a Twitch channel, she says, has serious financial and emotional implications – particularly during the pandemic and a widespread quarantine. "I really love [body painting]. It is a true passion," she told Insider. "Losing my channel without a good explanation is devastating. My channel is my only income right now."<h2>Other women who were censured for their content on the platform are sharing their stories online — and some are accusing Twitch users of targeting women. </h2>One Twitch personality who goes by Velvet tweeted that since receiving a temporary ban in 2019, she tries to be "extra careful about [her] clothing."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—velvet (@velvet16133188) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1250080199179292673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>After Velvet's tweet received <a href="https://twitter.com/ThotTry/status/1250100452668080131">a response</a> from a user threatening to report and get "talentless thots perm banned," Twitch personality <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/kaceytron">Kaceytron</a>, who boasts over 500,000 followers on the platform, <a href="https://twitter.com/kaceytron/status/1250100999731249152">called out</a> what she said was misogyny running rampant in the live streaming community. "There are literally misogynists going around TARGETING WOMEN trying to take away their livelihood," she tweeted. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—kaceytron (@kaceytron) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1250100999731249152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>MizzyRose then <a href="https://twitter.com/mizzycyn/status/1250101691581489152">responded</a> to Kaceytron's tweet, adding that women are frequently "sexualized" and "discriminated against" on the platform — which she says is made worse by unclear rules. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Mizzyrose (@mizzycyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1250101691581489152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote><h2>Going forward, MizzyRose says, she wants to see changes on the platform. </h2>"I wish for the staff to all be on the same page and fully know their terms of service," she said. "I would also like to see more detailed explanations as to why someone gets banned to they can 'improve' instead of being scared and not knowing why they were banned."Ultimately, she feels, streamers deserve more from Twitch."The streamers are who run their website, the people who provide their income," she said. "We should be treated better."Twitch did not immediately return Insider's request for comment. Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/ricegum-twitch-ban-abby-rao-break-up-2020-4">Popular YouTuber RiceGum hosted a Twitch livestream that seemingly got him banned for nudity and called out by his ex-girlfriend</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/streaming-services-have-to-start-thinking-about-mental-health-2020-2">Video game streaming platforms like Twitch want to look after their users' mental health, but it's only going to get harder as the industry grows</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/drake-partners-with-live-streaming-platform-caffeine-for-rap-battles-2020-2">Drake just signed a multiyear deal to produce rap battles on a live-streaming platform</a>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/twitch-body-painters-suspension-sparking-discussion-about-misogyny-2020-4">Insider</a>

A body painter says she was wrongfully suspended from Twitch for nudity despite the platform's rules providing exceptions for art

<ul class="summary-list"><li>In June, <keyword id="1754577" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Twitch">Twitch</keyword> streamer SayNoToRage apologized after over five women accused the gamer of sexual harassment and making unwanted advances toward them. </li><li>Streamer JulesVerne said that she once played "an entire card game with a notable streamer's hand on my thigh the whole time and was then basically asked for sex," sparking a massive response from many other women who said they had faced similar experiences. </li><li>SayNoToRage, who goes by the moniker Lono, apologized for his actions in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jluGP1iHcKE&amp;feature=youtu.beu.be">YouTube video</a>. "I took something from people, I took memories and events and they are now clouded and darkened by my selfish and reckless behavior," he said. </li><li>Stories of sexual harassment, misconduct, and abuse within the Twitch community and other industries have continued to spread online in what appears to be a new wave of the #MeToo movement. </li><li>Update: SayNoToRage denied the allegations in a new video and statement to Insider on July 2. Later that day, his channel was suspended or banned on Twitch. </li></ul>Update: On July 2, SayNoToRage denied the allegations in an hour-long video and 38-page statement seen by Insider. The following story has been updated from the original June 22 version to reflect his response.After his video denying allegations of harassment, SayNoToRage's Twitch channel appeared to be suspended or banned.After six women alleged that Twitch streamer SayNoToRage had sexually harassed them, the gamer addressed the claims in a YouTube video, apologizing for his actions and seeming to corroborate at least some victims' stories. "I am not a victim in this situation. There is no excuse for my behavior. There is no way to gloss over it and the things that I did were unacceptable," <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/saynotorage/about">SayNoToRage</a>, who doesn't share his full name publicly and goes by the first name Lono, said in a June 20 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jluGP1iHcKE&amp;feature=youtu.beu.be">video</a>, which is still available on his channel but has been set as unlisted. Lono had previously posted another video apologizing, <a href="https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/destiny-streamer-saynotorage-accused-of-harassment-by-multiple-women-1382207">Dexerto</a> reported, but he said he deleted it because he sounded "insincere." "I took something from people, I took memories and events and they are now clouded and darkened by my selfish and reckless behavior," he said. "Being inappropriate with these people robbed them of their sense of safety and security and it broke trust, and I am deeply sorry."In a 38-page statement provided to Insider on July 2, Lono, who has declined to share his last name, denied the allegations, saying that his apology was not an admission of guilt. Lono also denied the allegations in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KOzn-7hqao">new YouTube video.</a><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jluGP1iHcKE" frameborder="0"></iframe>Lono, a partner with Twitch who streams the first-person shooter game "Destiny" daily on the platform for 173,000 followers, said in his original June 20 that he was particularly "saddened" to have hurt people he was close with through what many women called unwanted sexual advances."I'm very deeply saddened that I did this to people that I thought were friends, I considered friends, and I cared about, and I had no intention for this to happen, but that does not excuse it, and that does not make it any less painful," he said. But on July 2, he said that while his actions were "inappropriate," he never "assaulted or harassed anyone.""I said things that were inappropriate for a married man to say to other women. I never assaulted or harassed anyone, and I can prove it," Lono wrote in the document, which included screenshots of previous conversations with his accusers. "The community was manipulated into distancing themselves from me which played a significant role in how this transpired. Isolating someone makes it significantly easier to lie about them." Streamer JulesVerne said that she once played "an entire card game with a notable streamer's hand on my thigh the whole time and was then basically asked for sex," adding that "it was Lono." The streamer, who did not return Insider's request for comment, sparked a massive response from many other women who said they have faced their own experiences of harassment with Lono. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—JewelsVerne ️‍ (@DawktaJawlz) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1274147280455634947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2020</a></blockquote>Sarah Daniels Barrett, an actor, singer, and Twitch partner, said that she was "cornered and made uncomfortable enough to have blocked one particular incident out of [her] memory until it was jogged recently." In an email to Insider, Barrett said that Lono harassed her at a Tampa, Fla., at the GuardianCon convention in 2017."I kept it to myself because I've been physically assaulted many times in the past, and dealing with some creepy comments about my body and my looks or how his wife 'didn't want him alone with other women when he was drunk' or how he 'gets really sexual when he drinks' didn't seem like enough to say something," Daniels Barrett told Insider via email, adding that he made more "forward comments" at another event. "<keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">News</keyword> flash, survivors, it is. We can't keep equating the severity of harassment to how important it is to speak up or how deeply it can affect people. All harassment is harassment." Lono previously confirmed to Insider that he interacted with Daniels Barrett at GuardianCon in 2017 and said that he "made a comment about her being short like me." Lono added that he recalls saying, "I'm not really supposed to drink at these events."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Sarah Daniels Barrett (@SarahDanielsTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1274149041954099201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2020</a></blockquote>In his statement viewed by Insider, Lono claimed that Barrett had been "forward" with him. "A friend of mine noticed how forward and friendly she was being and remarked that he could tell I was being careful because I had my arms crossed and was keeping distance," he said. Barrett told Insider in an email on July 2 that Lono is a "manipulator and a liar" and that he violated Twitch's Terms of Service by continuing to "harass these poor women who have been so brave to come forward." "He apologized in two different videos and owned up, then took it all back and went on a smear campaign," Barrett said. Two other streamers wrote essays alleging harassment claims against Lono on Medium. Twitch partner <a href="https://medium.com/@mindofsnaps/my-experiences-with-saynotorage-e28f1ff3680d">Mindofsnaps</a> said that her experiences in 2018 with Lono "left [her] feeling violated and uncomfortable," and that she documented these moments in an email sent to him later on. <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/princesskitley/about">PrincessKitley</a> said in <a href="https://medium.com/@princesskitley/my-story-with-lono-4a1413f12c4">her essay</a> that Lono had sent suggestive messages to her, which she included screenshots of in the article."The comments just got worse and I didn't even speak up for myself. I didn't know how. I just kept dodging the remarks like it was normal. He was my 'friend,'" she wrote of Lono, who is married. Chris Shannon, the community manager for Bungie, the developer behind "Destiny," wrote on <a href="https://twitter.com/Cozmo23/status/1274167585009881088">Twitter</a>, "Proud of the brave women in the community coming forward." Shannon added that "Bungie hasn't worked with Lono in a long time and won't ever again." Lono said in his statement that he believed the accusations were part of a "case of collusion," and said that the women had "conspired against" him. The allegations against Lono come amid a reckoning with <keyword id="46530" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="sexual-assault">sexual assault</keyword> among <keyword id="9308377" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="twitch-streamers">Twitch streamers</keyword>, influencers, celebrities, and business leaders in what appears to be a new wave of #MeToo allegations online. The influx of allegations against powerful men began as a result of protests over George Floyd's murder, which led to many people sharing their stories of racial injustice. In a <a href="https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1274900083369115649">statement</a> on June 21, Twitch addressed the recent allegations against its partnered streamers. "We take accusations of sexual harassment and misconduct extremely seriously," the statement said. "We're thankful for the bravery shown by those who have come forward to speak about their experiences, and we are committed to working to make the streaming community safer for everyone." A representative for Twitch told Insider that the company couldn't share which specific streamers they were investigating. Daniels Barrett said she has "no doubt" that there's a trend of harassment within the Twitch streaming community. "I myself have been personally targeted with hateful raids from partnered streamers, one example is when a streamer sent his entire community over (hundreds of viewers) to spam 'do you have a boyfriend?' in my chat," she said. But she added that these experiences happened before she married her husband, Christopher Barrett, a game director at Bungie. "I feel like people are a little more scared of me now, which is stellar, but it shouldn't take another white man in power to scare away these predators," she said. <ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitch-safety-advisory-council-board-help-guide-policies-ban-2020-5">Twitch is launching an advisory council that includes top streamers in the wake of months of criticism over controversial bans</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/ricegum-twitch-ban-abby-rao-break-up-2020-4">Popular YouTuber RiceGum hosted a Twitch livestream that seemingly got him banned for nudity and called out by his ex-girlfriend</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/twitch-body-painters-suspension-sparking-discussion-about-misogyny-2020-4">A body painter says she was wrongfully suspended from Twitch for nudity despite the platform's rules providing exceptions for art</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/invadervie-twitch-streamer-video-shames-broke-viewers-into-giving-money-2020-4">Twitch streamer faces backlash for 'shaming' broke viewers while asking for money: 'If you don't have $10, you probably don't have time to watch Twitch, because you should be working'</a></li></ul>

Twitch streamer SayNoToRage denies allegations of sexual misconduct by six women, claiming that accusers 'conspired against' him despite his previous apology

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5965eb6ed62e7039406de2a8-1800/rtsrt3e.jpg" alt="wyclef jean" data-mce-source="REUTERS/Danny Moloshok" data-mce-caption="Wyclef Jean arrives at the 42nd American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California November 23, 2014." />REUTERS/Danny MoloshokWyclef Jean arrives at the 42nd American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California November 23, 2014.</div></div></div><ul><li>Live streaming app Live.me wants to give the buzzy mobile game HQ Trivia a run for its money.</li><li>It has been heavily investing in a live trivia show called QuizBiz, which is almost identical to HQ Trivia.</li><li>But the game is differentiating itself using celebrities and other influencers to host its shows.</li><li>It is also upping the ante with a<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/livemes-trivia-game-quizbiz-is-breaking-records-with-150000-in-prize-money-on-sunday-300592669.html"> $1 million prize pool</a>.</li></ul><hr /> When Live.me was launched in 2016, it was just another<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/live-me-live-video-chat/id1089836344?mt=8"> live video chat app.</a> These days, it's gearing up to give the popular gaming app<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hq-trivia-hits-new-high-on-christmas-day-2017-12"> HQ Trivia</a> a run for its money.Since December, Live.me has been heavily investing in a live trivia show called QuizBiz, which like HQ, seamlessly combines the classic game show vibe with live streaming and mobile gaming."We've been experimenting with different live content and formats from the beginning - we had trivia on our official channel and would ask users to comment in the stream to win," Khudor Annous, head of marketing and partnerships at Live.me, told Business Insider. "But we never thought that it could be a product in and of itself, until HQ Trivia came along."The show is nearly identical to its buzzy and famous competitor - where a host reads out a series of 12 multiple-choice questions, and anyone who answers all 12 correctly walks away with a chunk of the prize. But unlike HQ, it airs three times a day instead of two: at 3:30 p.m., 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET.Challenging the incumbent and its host Scott Rogowsky is no easy feat, which is why Live.me is relying on a bevy of celebrity and other influencers to help it take on HQ Trivia, apart from its trio of rotating hosts Brad Gage, Julia Price and Chris Vanger.The app, for instance roped in music icon <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/wyclef-jean-on-mentorship-and-how-you-can-spot-the-next-big-thing-2017-7">Wyclef Jean</a> recently to host a special Grammy's edition of QuizBiz, whereas <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/RomanAtwoodVlogs">YouTube prankster Roman Atwood</a> hosted a game on Feb. 10. It has popular tween YouTuber <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/RiceGum">RiceGum</a> slated for an appearance soon. Having recognizable names boosts viewership as well. While the app has about 50,000 people tune in per episode, a celebrity or influencer usually leads to an audience that is 5-6 times bigger. Atwood's episode, for example, raked in more than 300,000 viewers. "The overlap between celebrity influencers and social media personalities to our target audience is very high," said Annous. "Seeing an influencer host the QuizBiz trivia show lends to a fun and engaging experience for the celebrity's fans as well as daily QuizBiz players."While Live.me claims that it has amassed a user base of 40 million users since its launch in 2016, it wants to attract a bigger audience specifically to its QuizBiz shows. That is why it is raising the stakes in terms of the prize money. In January, thousands of winners split about $120,000 in prize money.In February, QuizBiz has upped the ante to a<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/livemes-trivia-game-quizbiz-is-breaking-records-with-150000-in-prize-money-on-sunday-300592669.html"> $1 million prize pool</a>. The minimum giveaway per game this month is $10,000, with special games giving away $100,000 in cash. One of the three Super Bowl-themed games ended with a winner taking home $50,000, for example. While Live.me is indeed doubling down on QuizBiz, it is being careful not to place all its eggs in one basket. QuizBiz is part of a bigger push to create original live programming designed for the app's engaged mobile audience, but the company is also investing in other types of content.The push will indeed be helped by the<a href="https://www.tubefilter.com/2017/11/15/live-me-50-million-funding-from-bytedance-bought-musically/"> $50 million funding round</a> that it recently received, led by Chinese internet giant Bytedance."We want to create different opportunities for the community to get involved in," said Annous. 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Influencer Abby Rao says Twitch caused 'a rift' in her relationship her ex and YouTube star RiceGum

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Twitch suspends controversial streamer after she accidentally showed her nipple during a broadcast

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Twitch is launching an advisory council that includes top streamers in the wake of months of criticism over controversial bans

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FaZe Clan members suspended following allegations that their Save the Kids cryptocurrency may have been a scam

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The Twitch streamer who said broke viewers 'should be working' apologized after intense backlash, calling her comments 'tone-deaf'

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Twitch streamer faces backlash for 'shaming' broke viewers while asking for money: 'If you don't have $10, you probably don't have time to watch Twitch, because you should be working'

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A member of Twitch's new safety council is facing harassment for criticizing voice chat as non-inclusive

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Twitch streamer SayNoToRage denies allegations of sexual misconduct by six women, claiming that accusers 'conspired against' him despite his previous apology

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A knockoff game is trying to take on HQ Trivia by using celebrity hosts like Wyclef Jean and a $1 million prize pool

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