My values and Twitch’s collided. I built my community and channel around what I perceived was what was needed to be successful at the cost of what I wanted to show the world and cultivate in my community. Just weeks before New Year’s, Twitch passed their simulcasting guidelines that were vague at best and downright offensive at worst to me.

I value:

1. the freedom to connect with others and connect them together without locking them into a singular platform they may not agree with; Twitch allowed streaming to other platforms but the experience must be taylored to Twitch audiences exclusively

2. the freedom to create content without fear of a random policy change taking my account down; prior to this new policy, Twitch had changed their policies multiple times throughout the year prior and not been transparent enough about their changes and actively seemed to use their policies as a way to manipulate a narrative of doing it for the best of all users. Their sexually explicit content policy debacle was very much a joke

3. the freedom to enrich the lives of others through giving them myself. The Twitch Affiliate Agreement is a contract in which forces one to implicitly show support of their policies