The German opinion blogger Tim “Kuchen.tv” Heldt will not become a Twitch partner. In response to a query to Twitch, he was told that much of his programming consisted of “reactionary” content. Kucheen.tv first had to be instructed in order to understand what that meant, but then showed itself to be shocked. He’s not that right after all.
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Here’s what he says about his own situation: The streamer explains in a video in which he criticizes Twitch that he himself no longer has an affiliate contract with Twitch:
“I said in the Cake News that I wouldn’t get the partnership because I do editorial content, i.e. reactions, so to speak. However, Tobias Huch pointed out to me that it is not there. It says reactionary. That means, as it were, that I have outdated political worldviews. Translated this means: I am super-right for Twitch. How did they come up with that?”
Cake.tv then shows a number of examples in which he expressed himself in an exemplary and progressive manner. He’s been making videos on open-mindedness and tolerance for years.
So he has:
“So how do they get the idea that I’m so hardcore right-wing that I can’t be offered a partnership?”
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kuchen.tv fans criticize Twitch for lack of freedom of expression
How is that commented?? Under the video it says:
The segment starts at 1:11 minutes:
Twitch is allergic to riots, not necessarily opinions
This is behind it: The basic criticism is correct: Twitch seems to have a wide range of discretion as to who is allowed as a partner and who is not. That seems arbitrary and non-transparent. The same goes for their ban policy.
A clear scale is difficult to see;:
Twitch doesn’t necessarily seem to have an allergic reaction to “right-wing political content”, but above all to conflicts and controversies, to riots in other social media, such as Twitter.
Twitch often reacts to shitstorms on Twitter with bans on Twitch, for example in the legendary Malta “Ey, Memo, look” video by MontanaBlack.
This only became a scandal after HandofBlood shared a snippet of it on Twitter:
But even then there is no clear pattern. The “strip incident” from December 2020 had hardly any negative consequences for those involved.
That’s why Cake.tv and MontanaBlack also say that Twitch allegedly treated women preferentially.
Public image apparently decides who becomes a partner
Why doesn’t kuchen.tv get a partner contract? One can only guess. It’s probably not the case that Twitch gives someone 30 hours for a partner application to look through and check the complete work of Cake.tv for years.
His public image and what is known about him will be decisive.
Someone like kuchen.tv, who thrives on criticizing others and starting feuds, as recently with Shurjoka, doesn’t seem like an ideal partner for Twitch to advertise with.
Individual videos about the Allianz Arena won’t change that, if even a superficial investigation of kuchen.tv comes across terms like “lawsuits for hate speech” and convictions for anti-Semitic jokes (via vice). In fact, they were a few years ago, but they shape the image.
Cake.tv was recently sued again. He had called the streamer “Shrujoka” extremist, i.e. anti-constitutional. The streamers didn’t want to put up with that.
In the conflict with Shurjoka, Cake.tv was aggressive, saying the streamer wanted to take refuge in a victim role and pushed her gender to protect herself from criticism.
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