YO @Twitch

THIS IS PRETTY ASHY.

Like, I can rationalize a LOT of stuff. A LOT.
But more or less shaming anyone on the platform with less than 5 viewers (which is the majority, btw) by saying 'your raid isn't big enough to warrant a notification' is pretty nasty. https://twitter.com/DoubleAgtSmith/status/1312560496818761728

and as OP stated, I want to thank and welcome EVERYONE who raids my stream. Regardless of their raid size. 5, 50, 500, 5000.

How is this productive in any way?
How does this encourage people to keep growing on the platform?

original thread since this person was being accused of just making shit up: https://twitter.com/di0__0ib/status/1312781293319528448

also a moment of realness?

I've seen a lot of people wanting to be like 'way to virtue signal' or claiming that it's 'just about having fun'-thing is, when you're being told by your home base that your viewership doesn't matter, that fun slowly starts getting sucked away.

what's fun about raiding your favorite creators or friends and having to spend the first 10 minutes of arriving trying to troubleshoot and see if your raid alert did or didn't go off?

It's one thing if the streamer is like 'oh I turned those off'-which to be clear is shitty imo.

'I turned them off, you have to have X people' sounds a whole lot like low key, quiet coattailing fuckshit. Just say you don't think the people under the threshold are worth your time, take your Asshole badge, and go.

but that ISN'T what's happening.

this ties right back to the mentality of looking this as a competition. If you want this to be your fulltime gig with your name in bright lights, more power to you. People being dickweeds about not caring about raids isn't new or original, so cool it. The take isnt spicy.

But that many of you would take your FELLOW PEERS' IRRITATION AND ANGUISH as an opportunity to build your own clout is telling. It's crusty.

If you 'don't care', you don't have to engage the topic.

And yea, you right: Twitch is gonna do whatever they wanna do.

But as people using their platform, we 100% reserve a right to criticize when they do something that, generally speaking, isn't helpful to the community.

If general apathy is going to be your route, don't have your ass in any of the threads criticizing them for general issues with bigotry on the platform, and ESPECIALLY don't have your hand out when our criticisms/work benefit you.

Since 'you think it's being overblown.'

Offering up shitty, heartless, and generally rude ass commentary that only works to detract from the convo ALSO doesn't help the community in any way.

So next time, keep the tweet in the drafts.
Let others appreciate one another since you don't.

PS. since this needs to made clear before I get subtweeted for being mean or whatever:

if you have a REASON to have this feature on, such as certain things you're doing or interruptions of something happening (ex. speedrunning) , then VERY OBVIOUSLY this is not about you.

But that said: there are even still MORE OPTIONS that allow people to raid you that don't interrupt you, such as having no sound effect for the raid, or even turning your alerts off.

please do not crawl on to this thread trying to rationalize that I'm 'not being fair' to you, specifically, by making 30 additional tweets explaining how your specific instance is 'OK, actually.'

I'm very clearly not talking about y'all, so don't make it about you.