Twitch has formally left South Korea, and streamers determined to protest with some very specific content material, earlier than servers went offline.
Not solely has the Amazon-owned Twitch lower 500 jobs from its workforce this 12 months however it’s additionally introduced that it’ll cease all operations in South Korea totally.
That gave Korean streamers lower than three months to determine what to do with their careers, earlier than the streaming platform’s servers went offline within the nation on Tuesday, February 27.
Because the deadline approached a number of streamers determined to go away on very specific phrases, with some broadcasting hentai whereas one other revealed far an excessive amount of of their physique.
Streamer Daeyong2 spent his final moments on Twitch streaming a hentai sport to his followers, with little censorship, earlier than being banned.
Irin-Chan determined to go a step additional by undressing and displaying elements of her underwear, whereas dwell streaming on the identical day, seemingly protesting that Twitch was about to be no extra in her nation.
The clips have gone viral on Reddit, and lots of applaud their protest, or simply discover it amusing.
‘If that’s the way in which to exit, alright. Extra energy to all of them I say. What are they gonna do? Ban them?’ stated TinyLebron.
‘May as properly exit with a bang, actually,’ YuriWinter added.
The rationale Twitch left South Korea is as a result of it’s too costly to function within the nation, in keeping with Twitch CEO Dan Clancy when he introduced the departure in early December.
‘This morning, I shared with our neighborhood in Korea that we’ve made the tough determination to close down the Twitch enterprise in Korea on February 27, 2024 KST.
‘Finally, the associated fee to function Twitch in Korea is prohibitively costly and we’ve spent important effort working to scale back these prices in order that we may discover a approach for the Twitch enterprise to stay in Korea.’
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Although there are different streaming platforms working in South Korea, that the affected creators can pivot to, transferring a fanbase there – that may’ve taken years to amass – is not any simple feat.
For now, although, they most likely don’t have any regrets going out with a bang.
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