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At this point, I've become immune to the vile things people write about me in chat, and I'm still not sure if that's a good thing at all." Twitch streamer Taylor 'SlyTQ' Quinn. "But black girl streamers or queer girl streamers somehow see even more vitriol. "Ask any girl streamer and they'll tell you they've been harassed in new and horrible ways that they never thought possible," says Ripley.
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I feel like content creators outside of the queer community in general should be researching how to be a safe space." The Pepe emote has been an issue for a long time with regards to its alt-right association, however I have found many streamers who seem to not even know its history. " see many streamers whom, to be fair I cannot assume their sexuality or gender, that don't stream to the LGBTQ category, having a higher rate of sexist or homophobic speech within their chat. Quinn is also keenly aware of a difference between the streams of those within and without the queer community.
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As far as I know, unless they are reported, no action is taken."
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"An implementation, though I don't know how this would work, that would be great to see would be monitoring of usernames that use numbers to bypass filters and are used to harrass LGBTQ+ and minority streamers or remove a channel that's been banned over 10 times, possibly look into the user. I can see working on improving and I look forward to seeing them take more steps to being a progressive company in the area of community management and content creator accountability.
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"Streamers need to be held more accountable for their chats actions, it's our job to make sure our mods are aware and working to keep chat safe and hate free. For Taylor "SlyTQ" Quinn, the problems start with streamers themselves. I just feel like Twitch as a company does a lot sometimes to make queer people feel comfortable." Nikki 'Nikatine' Ripley is a full-time streamer on Twitch. "I compare the experience to YouTube probably more than I should, but where YouTube demonotises queer creators and runs anti-gay ads in front of our videos, Twitch staff reached out to *me* to be a part of the front page pride celebration last month. "Twitch as a company is extremely welcoming and supportive to the queer community," Nikki "Nikatine" Ripley says of the platform where she streams full-time. I spoke to a few queer streamers to gather the lay of the land when it comes to queer inclusion on platforms like Twitch and to my surprise, what they had to say wasn't all bad. That they feel comfortable using such slurs and challenging any action taken to stamp them out is telling. Though Twitch's response was welcome, it's still a rather weak one that seems all the milder when prominent figures within that scene, such as Duncan 'Thorin' Shields, came out to defend the use of that language. It was a reminder of where our industry is really at. don't belong in the games industry."Īt the end of this year's Pride month popular streamers Mohamad "m0E" Assad and Steven "Destiny" Bonnell II were both served 30 day suspensions on Twitch for homophobic slurs. Calling it out usually gets an, 'oh, it's just a joke, I don't really mean it' response but even if that's the case for 90 per cent of the people who say that stuff, there's still a huge portion of people who genuinely think that woman, queer people, people of colour, etc. You only need to spend a few minutes in most online competitive games before you're called a homophobic or racist slur. "While the workplace side is generally pretty good (in my experience!), gamers are often not quite so welcoming. "I think it would, however, be difficult to ignore the elephant in the room of Gamergate and its ilk," they told me. People at work were actually less bothered by it than people in my musical theatre group!"īut they were able to suggest where the main issues lie.
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"I think it varies a fair amount depending on the company, but the professional industry as a whole is relatively liberal and therefore I think people are either not queerphobic or sensible enough to hide it within a professional setting. I spoke to Hannah, a queer game developer of seven years, about their experience in the industry and despite my concerns, there's plenty to be proud of. No efforts to help out queer developers, to boost their presence on platforms like Steam. No public donations to LGBT charities, shelters or activist groups. It was still more than what most companies did. ❤️?? ??? /GDtQO2e3Nx- PlayStation UK JTo see this content please enable targeting cookies. Last year’s festival was inspiring, and because #PrideMatters to PlayStation, we’re proud to be sponsoring for the second year.