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September 15, 2020 09:11 pm
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/15/21438659/twitch-hispanic-heritage-month-black-lives-matter-lgbt-pride-month
Twitch takes another identity-related L
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Today, Twitch announced a set of emote modifiers in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month — and then it ended up pulling them before the day’s end because they were incredibly insensitive.
What in the fresh hell is this? pic.twitter.com/IjFSN9gHod
— Oraymw - ♿ - (@oraymw) September 15, 2020
2020 is a year of Ls, and Twitch has taken a disproportionate number of them in the last few months. This isn’t the first time the company has had something like this happen when it was ostensibly trying to honor marginalized groups who have a large presence on the site. Back in July, the streaming platform had two similar back-to-back gaffes: the first involved LGBTQ representation and the second was about Black Lives Matter.
Twitch initially...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/15/21438659/twitch-hispanic-heritage-month-black-lives-matter-lgbt-pride-month
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