A number of Twitch streamers are planning to turn their channels off on September 1st to protest Twitch’s continued slow response to a spike of bigoted harassment on the site.
The protest is being organized by streamers like RekItRaven, using the hashtag #ADayOffTwitch.
Update: When asked about the protest, Twitch spokesperson referred us back to the company’s August 20th Twitter thread about upcoming changes to improve protections on the platform.
In the interim, streamers have been making use of third-party tools to try and combat the hate raids, but it’s a glaring issue when third-party developers using Twitch’s API can build better anti-harassment tools than Twitch can.