All across⭕ social media, Mixer streamers and staff are voicing their heartbreak over the sudden surprise announcement that the streaming platform is shutt🏅ing down.
Practically the entire Mixer community (except for Shroud and Ninja, who are 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:rep🐷ortedly making millions off the shutdow🤪n) found out that Microsoft is ending support for the streaming site when it was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:announced by The Verge this morning. This news comes as a sudden sh🥀ock to 🐓Mixer creators, many of whom rely on the platform as their sole source of income.
Unsurprisingly, Mixer streamers are using their streams to process theirꦯ grief live with their fans and supporters. All across the platform streamers are joining together with each other and their viewers to talk about their future as streamers a🌜nd try to come to terms with the news.
Stream titles like "," "," and "" convey how devastated streamers are by this unexpected news. Many of th♋ese creators have cultivated dedicated audience over the years that may or may not follow them to another platform like Facebook Gaming, Youtube,ꦛ or Twitch.
According to , every existing Mixer partner will be granted partner status w✱ith Facebook Gaming and will have access to Facebook's monetization system called the Level Up program. Mixer has also doubled rewards from Embers, The Mixer version of Twitch bits, until the end of the month. Mixer will officially shut down on July 22nd.
At that point, Mixer streamers will need to decide the best platform for them to migrate to. Twitch offers the largest audience by far, but with that comes the steepest competition and a greater risk of getting lost in the crowd. Whatsmore, Twitch has proven time and again that it isn't the friendliest platform for creators, particularly women, as evid💞ence by this past weekend's movement against abusive🌳 and predatory men in the streaming industry, something that has been a major problem for Twitch, despite repeated promises to address it. The same goes for Youtube, a platform with a long history of not holding abusive creators and community members accountable. Facebook, on the other hand, is guilty of a laundry list of predatory, anti-user ༺poli🎃cy and actions, including , , and .
For many Mixer ꦇstreamers, the best streaming platf🌟orm for them was Mixer.