Black streamers write an open letter demanding Twitch create a less hostile streaming environment
Hate raids continue to plague Twitch’s community. In response, advocacy organization Colors of Change with notable Black streamers have penned an open letter urging the Amazon-owned platform to take action. The letter was aimed at Twitch CEO Emmet Shear, alongside their leadership staff.
The aim is to create a less hostile streaming platform, where streamers of any color or orientation do not have to fear being harassed.
On March 11, 2022, Twitch Support released a tweet talking about the latest wave of hate raids organized through another site. This allegedly came through the Cozy.tv streaming platform. Hate raids were organized through this site and the Tweet discussed this without naming the platform.
The streaming platform claims the hate has no place on their website, but February saw an incredibly large spike when it came to hate raids. This ultimately led to Colors of Change, a group dedicated to fighting injustice working with Black streamers to pen an open letter.
The response to the recent hate raids left the group unsatisfied, so now they are trying to reach out to the platform via this open letter. The letter itself talked about how Amazon's platform promised a series of initiatives to celebrate Black creators on the site, but the site did very little to protect those streamers.
According to the open letter, streamers were harassed by racist attacks throughout the month and wanted the company to address their complicity in allowing racism to exist on the platform itself. The authors of the piece discussed demands previously requested of the streaming site but have heard nothing back about them.
Though the streaming service did add phone-verified chat, the above demands about improved safety protocols were not
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