Game Theory: Dear Twitch, Grow Up!

It is interesting to think that Twitch brought it on themselves a wee bit by making contracted streamers hit huge amounts of stream hours as opposed to making the hours more flexible to allow for more unique, shorter content. Streamers with paid deals make up a tiny portion of the overall number of streamers but a higher % of them have opted to do this "react to TV shows" type of thing, probably because it's easy and fills those hours up

Can we just acknowledge that after all these years MatPat is still able to use the same old picture of himself to create any facial expression imaginable for his videos

Everyone: complaining youtube is too strict and sold out

I don’t think twitch is right for making streamers meet stupid amounts of streaming hours but I do believe that streamers shouldn’t be allowed to sit in front of a TV and “react” to someone else’s hard work and then make thousands from it

It feels completely wrong to keep this up without edits

The advance warning for dmca is very cool, it makes it feel less like a trap to take away revenue from creators, and more genuine

I like how a lot of big streamers have broken the rules and haven't been "permabanned" while smaller Twitch streamers get permabanned when they slip up once.

I love how this video is neither about a game, nor a theory, lol

Claiming copyright over music being talked over is absurd. (ie streaming while you walk into a store) This should be fair use.

I don't know how MatPat can be a YT creator with the mindset/attitude of "if Twitch just did what ESclips does, everyone would be happy" as if ESclips's system isn't it's own godawful mess for both watchers & creators

The problem with copyright detection bots is they don't recognize instances of fair use, like parody and commentary. Commentary in particular is hard to recognize because it's all in the context.

Counter argument: Corporations need to grow up and stop growing the definition of copyright arbitrarily.

When MatPat says: “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed,” he has officially taken his final DadPat form.

There's so much of this video that is simply untrue, it's awesome. Nice disclaimer in the description that no one will read.

Riot Games allowed to stream first (and for some streamers 3 first) episode of Arcane on Netflix. It got hella views. It was just like watching something with the friend that you never had that shares your specific interest. I hope things like that will happen more often.

I'm with you on the whole Facebook ruining the word meta, smh

I honestly think (and this is my own theory) is that Twitch doesn't truly want to do that because it would heavily lock out so many content creators if not cause Twitch to lose money because then you or the creator then has to pay to gain access to that copyright allowance so they can stream basic games. And that's the thing, the gaming side of Twitch would be hit the hardest, because game devs take dmca takedowns for their soundtracks VERY seriously.

This requires Twitch to care about their creators.

Just another small correction, Toast wasn’t ever banned for a month. He was only banned for 24-48 hours. He just said “see you guys in a month” as a joke

Ludwig had a much more realistic take on this topic. Sorry, Mat, but he knows the ecosystem better.