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October 25, 2019 06:56 pm
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20932354/shroud-twitch-mixer-channel-search-hide
Shroud left Twitch for Mixer, and now Twitch is hiding his channel in search
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Twitch stripped Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek of his verified partner badge and hid his channel on the site’s search after the popular streamer and former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro announced yesterday that he was leaving the platform for Mixer.
In a vacuum, those two things wouldn’t necessarily mean much because a dormant channel doesn’t need to be promoted in search. Applied to a prominent streamer who left the platform the day before, however, it becomes a sign of how Twitch thinks about its biggest personalities. Leaving, to Twitch, seems to mean something like a betrayal. Twitch’s partner badge is one of the harder verifications to get online, and it denotes a level of status on the site. Grzesiek’s announcement was instantly...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20932354/shroud-twitch-mixer-channel-search-hide
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