Those are issues that extend beyond Twitch.
Drama drowns out discussion.
When popularity becomes profitable, appealing to the lowest common denominator will yield the best results.
Those are two laws of nature that explain why we can't have nice things.
In a battle for attention Logan Paul would murder Neil deGrasse Tyson.
It's why I cry at night.
Those are issues that extend beyond Twitch.
Drama drowns out discussion.
When popularity becomes profitable, appealing to the lowest common denominator will yield the best results.
Those are two laws of nature that explain why we can't have nice things.
In a battle for attention Logan Paul would murder Neil deGrasse Tyson.
It's why I cry at night.
One of the issues I have with a lot of the streamers that I don't see being discussed is the effect it has had on the gaming categories. If you search for streams by game, you will notice that the top 20 or even 30 games never really change. There have always been popular games, but it seems like this has changed slightly over the past year or two. Instead of there being people who want to stream a certain game because they like it or are good at it, or people who stream a variety of games, people are just playing the most popular games on the site because it gives them more exposure to do stuff on stream that is, at the most, vaguely related to the game they're playing.
It may not seem like a massive issue, but the end result is that the most popular content on Twitch is low level entertainment for 12 year olds. It is very similar to what happened to gaming channels on YouTube, in fact. Another issue with this whole thing is that there are some streamers who do not play games and do art, music or IRL streams who actually have really good and interesting streams, but nobody will ever see them because of the drama filled IRL clickbait channels.