Good Morning,
I’m sure many of you are wondering why did I take my notifications off last night, or why I turned off the notification ticker. Why was I thanking for free follows and there was a nervous jitter in the air. Well boys and girls, sit down while I tell you a tale of a griefer.
For those of you who don’t know who I am, my name is Junie. I am a broadcaster on Twitch and I am one of many women being targeted by a griefer. What’s a griefer? It’s a person that harasses, provokes others on line in a demeaning manor to spoil the enjoyment of others. Now why did I do the things I did last night.
Well Twitch in their ever benevolent wisdom changed their TOS as of March 9th. With that, Twitch is holding the broadcaster accountable for a lot more in their channel. Sadly, this allows some complete and utter fuckwad to start griefing women broadcasters both on the gaming and creative platform. How you may ask? Well by using offensive names, or turning around and commenting in channel about our physical appearance or saying racist or defamatory comments about the broadcaster. This has been going on for over a MONTH! Yes, a MONTH!
Have we complained? You bet your pretty ass you’re sitting on right now we did. Have we reported him? You bet your sweet fingers you’re using to type on your keyboard we did. It has gotten to the point where broadcasters are calling the police due some of the names this complete dickless clown has used. Twitch’s response as of present is to block him and ban him from our channels. To ignore the threats and the actions of this individual. Now ask if me if this has this been effective?
NOT ONE FARKING BIT!
What Twitch fails to realize is that this complete and utter moron can make an account faster than they can let their cozy new name vetting process can work. Oh and about that cozy new name vetting process, it DOESN’T work! When you’ve been able to talk to Twitch staff about this, you get a healthy dose of Mansplaning,
“Oh, you can block them and ignore them.” “Don’t worry, he’s getting his jollys off and then he’ll leave you alone.” “Do you really think he can dox you and come to your home?” “It will pass soon, just keep on ignoring and banning him, I’m sure he’ll get the message.” “You signed up to be a Twitch broadcaster, you should have known what you were signing up for.” What the actual fuck is in the god damn kool-aid Twitch?!
These aren’t questions I SHOULD have to FARKING ANSWER! We’ve ignored, we’ve REPORTED TO TWITCH; several broadcasters have called the police to get them involved because Twitch won’t do a thing about it. Am I pissed? YES!
I SIGNED UP TO BE A BROADCASTER AND TO BRING ENJOYMENT INTO PEOPLE’S LIVES. I DID NOT SIGN UP TO BE TARGET PRACTICE FOR PREBUPESENT BOYS THAT THINK VERBALLY THREATING WOMEN IS THE PATH TO MANHOOD!
I shouldn’t have to worry about the safety of my child nor my friends while being a FUCKING streamer! Seriously, the fark Twitch. You are letting some farking little asshole threating the safety of broadcasters and their FAMILIES! We signed up to broadcast, have fun and bring some enjoyment into people’s lives. We did NOT sign up for getting trolled, griefed, threated and even put our safety both physical and mental at risk to broadcast.
Isn’t your brand new sparkling TOS supposed to protect me from this shit?! You’re more worried about my tits hanging out, doing a nipple slip, maybe seeing my vagina; than stopping some mother farking griefer hurting amazing and talented women out there. Is Twitch worried that banning a fucking griefer will hurt their wallet?!
I’m sorry, is the BRO-CODE more important to your wallets than the things I can do for Twitch? I’m sorry because I have tits and a vagina doesn’t mean that I’m not valuable. I am not a person and I am not someone that needs to be protected. That you would rather protect those masochistic, women hating, toxic, vile asshole of a popular MALE streamer than protect the women streamers out there that don’t bring in as much money as this asshole of a Male streamer does. (Stage whisper: Actually the women on Twitch collectively bring in a lot more money to Twitch than ONE vile male streamer does.)
Twitch, you don’t get to pick and choose who you can protect with your precious TOS, you need to protect us all. This griefer isn’t going to stop with just picking on the women of Twitch. Will you react when he starts to grief men? Oh if you do, how fucking WHITE KNIGHT of you!
Its sad, VERY SAD to see the platform that I love, the platform that I adore and highly praise turns a blind eye to the women of Twitch that get harassed, terrorized, threatened and tormented by a griefer they could have permabanned a MONTH ago. How many more will be griefed, hurt and turned sour because Twitch doesn’t care about their broadcasters as much as they care about the revenue that we can provide them.
Thanks Twitch, I bleed purple but what do you bleed? Green?
Best Wishes,
Junie von Esch
