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Twitch requires your phone number to a) become verified (because apparently paying them every month for 5 years is not a verification) and even dumber, b) to en
by Semaphor 4y ago
Twitch requires your phone number to a) become verified (because apparently paying them every month for 5 years is not a verification) and even dumber, b) to enable TOTP.
And people on the Twitch subreddit insult you for even questioning this issue, even after they had a data leak. And yes, that's a majority opinion over there.
It's sad.
- nubinetwork 4y agoBoth twitch and YouTube's subreddits aren't moderated by staff, but by random tryhards. If they don't like you, you're banned. Reminds me of Wikipedia.
- philpem 4y agoReminds me of furries, and a lot of other fandoms actually. A: "Hey I had a problem at the con this weekend" B: "How dare you talk about that, that's DRAMA! Take your DRAMA elsewhere, LLAMA. I'll have you know the guy who runs ConWeekend is my best friend! You're Banned for life! Long live ConWeekend! And here's that Japanese BANNED meme video to play you out! HAHA I SAVED THE FANDOM!"
- Semaphor 4y agoTbf, that's what I expect, most subs are community-run. But even if not, that'd be telling me a lot about the community.
- philpem 4y agoSome communities (fandom is probably a better word) are more like cults of personality than actual communities. Given the fannish nature of Twitch and its audience in general, this level of almost religious fanboying and "how dare you question the Gods" mentality is very familiar (my teens and 20s were spent in fandoms - first anime, then comics, then furry). I've seen this in every single one of them to some extent, but especially furry and Twitch. It's sad, because -- as they, sunlight is the best disinfectant -- and all this does is block the sunlight and discourage people from talking about issues.