This past July, Twitch added a multitude of tags to improve the discoverability of channels belonging to users of various identities, including trans, black, and disabled streamers. This also served as a lightning rod for harassers to find and direct their hate against those communities. Particularly egregious were so-called «hate raids,» where automated accounts would flood chats with derogatory or violent speech.
Things came to a head on September 1st when a group of streamers staged a
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