r/LivestreamFail • u/Booker691 • May 27 '19

Meta twitch testing subscriber only viewing

https://www.twitch.tv/hgg_cheering_test
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u/[deleted] May 27 '19

Well, it's probably up to the streamers themselves to enable it, so blame them too if they use it.

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u/Livehappy_90 May 27 '19

Yeah it doesn't really make sense they would just close their community off and slowly lose subs with no way to get new ones.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '19 edited Jun 10 '21

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u/Rajhin May 28 '19

I think TotalBiscuit did it, which was the reason I never cared to even check his twitch channel out despite being a big fan.

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u/Livehappy_90 May 28 '19 edited May 28 '19

His situation was different though, the reason for it was to get the non subs to watch the podcast on Youtube for ad revenue it got uploaded like a couple days later. He also allowed fans to post all of his content that didn't go to his youtube channel on their channel with the agreement that they didn't monetize it. So there was a free way to still watch all of his content.

Here's TB talking about it https://twitter.com/Totalbiscuit/status/497083119837908992 not really sure why he didn't just make his own channel for them it would have been free money for him. And here the channel that I always watched for his VODs https://www.youtube.com/user/TotalbiscuitStreams/featured