Twitch Boost Train Suspended After Users Push NSFW Content To Front Page
Twitch's Boost Train feature has come to an abrupt end after users managed to get channels streaming pornography posted to the front page. Twitch has suspended the Boost Train service and has not commented on when it might return.
Paid boosting was first announced late last year, which allowed users and content creators to essentially pay Twitch to have their preferred channels featured on Twitch's front page. The system was widely criticized as it allowed anyone to pay, including content creators themselves. This meant popular (and rich) content creators had the most buying power to ensure they remained on Twitch's front page. Furthermore, payments for the feature went entirely to Twitch and were not shared with content creators, so any user who paid to boost their favorite low-subscriber streamer often was paying Twitch for little actual benefit.
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Twitch halted the paid Boost service at the end of 2021 and replaced it with Boost Train in March. The new service allowed users to boost channels by purchasing subscriptions and bits, which are at least shared between Twitch and the content creator.
However, the Boost Train service seems to have been derailed by trolls. As noted by PC Gamer, users began to see porn posted to Twitch's front page starting March 30. The source of these streams was obvious because each one was tagged with a "promoted by the streamer's community" message.
Several Reddit and Twitter posts confirmed Twitch users had gamed the Boost Train system to ensure porn made it on Twitch's front page. A Twitch spokesperson told PC Gamer that the Boost Train service had been halted indefinitely with no mention of
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