How did the #ADayOffTwitch boycott go? The numbers show ‘a significant drop’ in viewership

It’s safe to say Twitch is a bit in a pickle right now. There has been a lot of negative feedback regarding the way the platform handles abusive raids, so called ‘hate raid’, where streamers get massively spammed with racist slurs in their chat. According to streamers (and viewers) Twitch is not doing enough to take care of their creators, which led to the #ADayOffTwitch boycott.

A lot of streamers and viewers supported the movement that was started with the hashtag #ADayOffTwitch on Twitter. The idea was to not stream or watch streams on Twitch on the first day of September. Multiple big streamers also joined the fray and stayed offline yesterday. If we look at the numbers, we can say the boycott really made an impact.

Very preliminary data on #ADayOffTwitch

But according to charts from @TwitchTracker_, there are *currently* about 5000 fewer streamers live right now than last week and ~500,000 fewer viewers. (That’s a significant drop.)#TwitchNews pic.twitter.com/NvZfkkMea6

— Zach Bussey (@zachbussey) September 1, 2021

A significant drop

Zach Bussey reported on Twitter yesterday that, around 7 PM, there were ‘about 5000 fewer streamers’ live at that moment, in comparison to a week earlier. There were also ‘~500.000 fewer viewers’ which he described as ‘a significant drop’.

Ofcourse it’s a bit early to make assumptions and we never know what will happen next, but the fact is that streamers and viewers really pushed through this boycott. We also don’t know if Twitch is impressed in any way by this. What we do know is that the platform is having some rough days, also seeing DrLupo and TimTheTatman move exclusively to YouTube recently.

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