"[Twitch's] priority is making money," she said. "My priority is making a cool, safe environment and community for many, many, many people. I think there are a lot of problems that minorities on Twitch still face and that I wish they could do more about.
And after shitting on them for being capitalist pigs, bigots, fascists, misogynists, etc, Twitch official can't help but simp.
Indeed, she admitted she would still be on Twitch "sometimes" and still had a lot of love for the company. Twitch even responded to her social media announcement: "You'll always have a home on Twitch, Poki".
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And after shitting on them for being capitalist pigs, bigots, fascists, misogynists, etc, Twitch official can't help but simp.
I fucking wish. It would probably be a better platform if that's all there was to it.
Sorry can you bring me up to speed. Did Amazon/Twitch do something lately?
Sounds like Pokimane had an exclusive streaming deal with Twitch that just expired and didn't get renewed.
So she has to do the whole "It's not me, it's you" to save face.
There's really no actual news here. She's not leaving Twitch, just not streaming there exclusively anymore as per the terms of her old contract.