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On Tuesday, Twitch announced new branded content rules on its platform, and creators are not happy. Twitch’s new advertising rules were slated to go into effect on July 1 on the Amazon-owned live-streaming service, prohibiting the size and nature of ads streamers can use. However, Twitch backtracked later on Tuesday, saying they would rewrite the guidelines due to backlash from creators.
But that’s not how everyone else sees it. On Twitter, creators called the changes “insanity,” “crazy,” “the most anti-creator shit I’ve ever seen,” and said, “These limitations are going to push content creators away.” Many streamers threatened to leave Twitch altogether. …
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