Mixer is dead.

Mixer is dead.

Over the last two days, a person on twitter came out and said that someone had told them they were only hired to meet a “diversity quota”, and that they were in a meeting where someone described streamers as “slaves”, and with them being black… not cool. The experience was reported to a skip-level manager who proceeded to do nothing about it, so they went to Mixer’s legal team about the supervisor who said the racist statements, as well as the supervisor basically telling them to “suck it up, bitch”. There are so many more metaphors that could have been used and thinking of streamers as “slaves” is not a good thing.

Basically one of the big shots calling the shots on the platform is incredibly racist and doesn’t treat people equally. It’s also a woman so YKNOW THAT’S SOME TRUE SHIT HEAHEHAHAA. She also got no repercussions for saying what she did to the employee. What a load of horseshit.

And then in conjunction with that coming out, Mixer decided to basically sell their platform to Facebook (read: Microsoft sold the Mixer platform to Facebook). So everyone who put work into their streams, their communities, their setups, everything about the streams: gone. As soon as it was announced, people were streaming them setting up their Twitch pages to help their community know where they were going, or setting up other pages, etc. I really wanted to just stream some hentai and be like “fuck it” but I really can’t be assed to set up a stream on my bot account lol.

Down to the meat of the matter, Mage’s community that I’m a part of. This man was crying on stream. This man poured so much of his heart and soul into this platform believing it could have been something. YA COULDA BEEN A CONTENDAH! Against Twitch. But no, they basically fucked everyone over. And Mage started Firebot, which MANY streamers were using, along with development input from eBiggz and many other people including myself. And not to even speak of MixrElixr, which is useless now since BetterTwitchTV is a thing on Twitch, so the entire project has to be dropped to the floor since BTTV is basically MixrElixr.

God I’m so pissed. I’m so pissed at the fact that a corporation thinks it’s okay to uproot many people’s lives and communities online and shove them into one of the most toxic places on the internet (Twitch). It’s absolutely terrible and all those shitty execs need to come down with a case of COVID-19 and get fucked. I don’t wish death on anyone but I will when they throw away people’s hard work on a whim like that.

We still have the community ourselves, but it’s definitely feeling like an old friend has died suddenly.