YouTube has come under scrutiny for toxic behavior on its site as well, and it has had serious ramifications including the #Adpocalypse. As such the levels of toxicity on the site have been steadily rising, especially for more vulnerable creators whom Twitch should be supporting. Twitch's tag system also allows for these accounts to zero in on marginalized creators. Since setting up an account is relatively quick and painless, sock puppet accounts are often used to enact raids in which a streamer's chat is inundated with slurs, hateful messages, and insults. However, as with most things online, people have found a way to misuse this feature. Raids on Twitch involve huge numbers of people flooding a particular stream's chat, which often allows for big streamers to bring an audience to a smaller streamer and support them in that way. RELATED: Twitch Streamer Is Biking Across the Country in Honor of Fallen GTA RP NoPixel Players However, while hashtag activism and boycotts do have limitations in their actionable power, Twitch is a site that relies on online users and having a good reputation, so the Day Off Twitch movement does have the potential to inspire some change on the site.

With online streaming being many Twitch creators full-time jobs, the movement has divided some of the top streamers on the site who may believe in the message but not the action. The 'Day Off Twitch' movement, in essence, is a boycott of the site for one day to draw attention to the ways in which the site is failing to protect its creators.

However, it seems the tides are turning somewhat as Twitch struggles to keep up with hate raids and other harassment issues. There was a time in which many creators moved from YouTube to Twitch as they felt Twitch was a more conducive atmosphere to create in. Twitch has grown exponentially as a streaming platform in the past few years, though the site has had its fair share of controversies along the way.

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