#TwitchIsOverParty

Overview

#TwitchIsOverParty refers to a trending Twitter hashtag in which people shared grievances over the actions of Twitch. The campaign began after Ninja posted a video to Twitter calling out Twitch for recommending other channels and pornography on his channel after he left for Mixer. The campaign expanded to include complaints that the site unfairly bans men for violations of its terms of service but lets women get away with more. Twitter users pointed to the recent controversy with Alinity throwing her cat as evidence that Twitch gives preferential treatment towards popular female streamers.

Background

On August 11th, 2019, Ninja posted a video to Twitter complaining that Twitch had used his defunct channel to advertise other streamers, including a pornographic streamer (shown below).

The same day, YouTuber Jamari posted a video titled "Twitch Is Over Party" in which he complained about how Twitch wouldn't ban female streamers with highly sexual content but would ban others for what he viewed as relatively minor offenses (shown below). In the video, he singled out Alinity for not being banned over the cat abuse streams.

Developments

After Ninja's video, Keemstar posted a video explaining the drama with Ninja and yet another recent drama with Alinity, this time of her, perhaps accidentally, saying the n-word. Though Keemstar acknowledged she may have misspoke, he pointed to instances where male streamers were banned for saying things that could potentially be misconstrued as racist, such as saying "coon" to refer to a raccoon," to make the point Twitch is giving Alinity preferential treatment.

Twitter users began spreading the hashtag "#TwitchIsOverParty" to discuss the issues they'd taken with the website. Many used the hashtag to spread jokes calling Twitch clowns and making fun of the site in various other ways. For example, Twitter user @Nicokont^[1] tweeted a How Y'all MFers Look meme about the site that gained over 20 retweets and 230 likes (shown below, left). User @Qwsiily_^[2] posted a Distracted Boyfriend meme about the controversy, gaining over 300 retweets and 2,300 likes (shown below, right).

Shortly after Ninja posted his video, Twitch reverted his channel back to a normal offline mode, and CEO Emmett Shear apologized to Ninja saying it wasn't their intent but that there were "no excuses."^[3]

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