I love Subtember and the concept of it for subathons but fuck me are some people going way too greedy/scummy with their community stuff. This absolutely will piss off some of my mutuals but at least I'm not dropping names. "Pay me hundreds of subs to have a chance at a 20 dollar product" you're supposed to REWARD YOUR COMMUNITY FOR SUPPORTING YOU. Also fyi in some states this is outright illegal. In the EU it's highly illegal due to the AML directives to make people buy in at a chance (A lottery) for a physical prize with a price attached without registrations. All ya'll doing stuff like that: Straight up shame on you. Stop taking advantage of your communities. Subathon goals are supposed to be things where you're appreciative and do things like eating gross food, changing avatar, community events (Like parties), etc. It's supposed to be a reward for the COMMUNITY for supporting you, not an exploitative FOMO scam. "PAY ME 2000 SUBS AND YOU GET A CHANCE TO GET A DAKI" get the fuck out of here with that. This isn't supposed to be about you. Stop being so wildly selfish, JFC. It's such a bad look and people are *absolutely* talking shit about it behind the scenes.

This is step 1 of many, btw. They are absolutely going to replace streamers with AI streamers. Sorry to name drop - but Neuro-Sama proved this is an extremely profitable thing to do. They were the most subscribed person on Twitch for a period. They broke 340,000 subs on Twitch. Again, AI powered. This proved that AI can abso-fuckin-lutely replace streamers and Amazon/Twitch have 10000% noticed this. I promise you the moment this happened there were meetings about it and gears started turning that cannot be stopped without insane pushback. There is no arguable reason you'd want to pull everyone's content and scrape it unless you were going to replicate it or use the data on trends/etc. Streamers *really* do need to get mad. If you're streaming it is entirely likely you *will* be replaced if you don't. If a company can replace you and not pay you 50% of the profits and hit numbers like Neuro then they ABSOLUTELY WILL. People clearly support it. AI doesn't need to sleep. It doesn't need to rest. It doesn't miss trends. It doesn't miss comedy. It can understand exactly what makes people laugh at all points and know the funniest way to do/engage with things. If you let it into your space it will *absolutely* fuck everyone else over. Again - if you're on Twitch you have time to make a LOT OF NOISE ABOUT THIS. It's genuinely serious. I know a lot of mutuals (I won't name drop) want to just blanket ignore everything AI and act like it doesn't exist but you HAVE TO STOP HIDING. You're at the point where you need to be really loud and encourage your community to be really loud about this if you *genuinely* care.

We're genuinely getting into the era of "You will own nothing and be happy with it" EA/Activision started this "No hosted servers" stuff and now it's spreading with tons of money behind it. I would argue most of Minecraft's major media success is due to hosted servers. It's incredibly stupid that Microsoft is moving to set this as precedent and make this a thing in the industry. 700% increases on ram pricing driving everything up, hosted servers being banned, 'borrowing' licenses being pushed. Can't wait til it's 10k to buy a mid range laptop Gotta get louder and start causing way more drama and push back against this stuff.

This just genuinely reads as "Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make" "AS LEADERS WE RECOGNIZE THE GAME FELL SHORT" no dude, leadership fell short. Leadership failed the game. Leadership made awful decisions. Keep fucking reminding people and don't let them settle down into another cushy job in another company/IP/game they can fuck up. Do. Not. Let. People. Forget. Their. Bullshit. The devs didn't deserve this. Fans didn't. Game didn't. Studio didn't. I 100%, fully encourage and will personally be shit flinging towards the people responsible if they try to take their bag and leave to another project after causing all this. (Leadership responsible, not the devs. DO NOT HARASS THE DEVS. Help them) This doesn't mean threats. Do NOT do that. This just means making their name so toxic no studio will hire the people responsible back due to fears of backlash. Vocalize. Be loud.