TwitchAlerts and GamingForGood Situation Discussion Thread

Athene is a YouTuber/Twitch Streamer/philanthropist/activist. TwitchAlerts is a platform streamers use to display their donations on stream. GamingForGood(G4G) is a similar platform that Athene is the face of, the difference is that G4G launched in February while TwitchAlerts has been around for a while now. G4G also has added features where you can choose how much of your donation should go to charity(Save the Children) and how much to the streamer. You can also win games when donating.

When G4G launched Athene's stream got viewbotted. A lot of people thought it was Athene doing it to advertise his platform which actually can't be proven and would make no sense for Athene to do (viewbotting is frowned upon in the Twitch community for obvious reasons). Then after high profile streamers started using G4G (eg: Sodapoppin)

TwitchAlerts started contacting them asking for feedback, also random twitter bots started bombarding them with tweets about TwitchAlerts having no fee and Athene being a viewbotter.

Later because of the constant accusations of Athene viewbotting he decided to stop streaming so the damage that was done to his reputation wouldn't damage G4G and the charity behind it.

Then TwitchAlerts copied the feature that G4G had that they did not (you could type in a YT video that would play on the stream if you donated) to which Athene responded with donating to streamers using TwitchAlerts to play a video advertising G4G and also asked his followers to do the same if they can. This made TwitchAlerts pretty mad so at first they started to block the specific videos but since everyone kept reuploading them and making new ones they just simply blocked all videos uploaded in the last 30 days. TL;DR: TwitchAlerts doesn't want competition and is shady as fuck. This video sums things up if you don't want to watch the others.

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