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i don't know who those two idiots were chanting in my stream room but they've gone now so we're
safe um yeah hello and welcome i'm machine dane i hope you're doing really really well in this
video we're gonna talk a little bit about a new feature that twitch is testing called
chanting and it uses the forward slash chant text command when you're in chat and mods can use
and also the broadcaster can use it it's currently not available for just any old pleb in your chat
this was announced like yesterday and it's already rolled out to a number of different streamers
mainly some of the biggest streamers but i think some of the smaller students will have it as well
i've not seen it yet on my channel but in this video i'm going to talk a little bit about what
it is what the objectives of it are how it might affect twitch also show an example of it in action
i'm also going to show some pretty interesting opinions that people have shown on this already
which are some valid and some of them are not very valued and some are just downright funny to
be honest so if you find this video useful hit the like button feel free to subscribe to the channel
and of course you're welcome to come check me out twitch.tv forward slash machine dana come hang out
ask many questions chill or not whatever either way let's do this so here's the tweet we see here
for a limited time experiment twitch is rolling out in some communities a new way to
chance during hype moments on stream and mods can use a forward slash chant to suggest messages with
text and or emotes views will see private call outs in the chant and can dismiss or participate
so here's a quick look at what it actually looks like to the viewer somebody else has obviously
started this like a mod or the actual streamer himself with the forward slash chant command
and then this appears to all the viewers that can then just quickly click the button so
twitch has made it really really easy for someone to come up with something creative like it's some
sort of silly chant and then for everyone else to get involved at the click of a single button or a
thumbprint i'm guessing if this is on mobile it may not be available on mobile yet i guess we'll
see at the moment twitch haven't rolled this out to everyone clearly they're just testing this to
see how people respond to it to see if the chat engages a little bit more and i guess they'll have
all the metrics and stats that back up whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing and
these are probably metrics and stats that you or i wouldn't even probably think of like does
it affect how long a user goes on to does it does it mean that you spend more let's be honest we're
probably going to figure out if you spend more on twitch as being able to chant on twitch that's
the real deal here so what's the aim here for twitch with the chance well obviously for twitch
one of the biggest and most important factors for anyone streaming on twitch is the culture
it's definitely the unique selling point of twitch it's been going for so long there's this real
sense of community within twitch that you simply do not get anywhere mixer when it was around
youtube gaming facebook gaming you do not get that feeling of being in a community to the same
level that you do on twitch and it's because of emotes is because of hype chains and it's because
of silly little things that they've implemented over the years you probably won't call them
innovations because you probably just get gotten so used to them but at the time when these things
have been rolling out over the years they've been innovations in the streaming market and even the
very fact of being able to chat live while someone is broadcasting back in the day would have been in
itself an innovation so clearly twitch is trying to expand on their unique selling point and kind
of like leverage their strength but also trying to keep ahead of facebook gaming they're trying
to keep ahead of any new players as well as well as youtube gaming too they want people coming back
for longer to be served the advertisements to spend more money on bits and subscriptions and
things like that they want loyalty and they want broadcasters with strong communities that are
going to stick around and have your eyeballs on the content for longer so okay chanting it's a bit
stupid it's kind of a bit dumb but when you think about the logic behind it from a business point
of view from twitch it's actually quite cool and it makes good sense i also think as well they're
trying to improve the moderation on the channels and that sounds silly when you're talking about
having chance it's a little bit like frat boy type environment it's not really like that though the
thing is if moderators can create a more positive vibe in a particular community or the streamer
himself by using chants and other similar types of tools that may be rolled out in due course a
community might be less likely to push the boundaries with negativity more inclined to
stick around and be positive and therefore twitch in itself is probably a safer place and a more
enjoyable place for people so i do think there's maybe like a more kind of underlying deeper
objective that's which i've got here so this is what it looks like and obviously they're making
it really really convenient for people to just get involved in this i kind of annoyed that they used
the new pog champ remote because i don't really like it if you want to show the reaction from
miz kif he's put a reaction to it here remove this or i'm going to mix it where there is no hype nor
stream i'm still live by the way this is obviously mischief trying to get some cheap pr because he
was still live and people will now see that tweet and maybe come to his channel but he did actually
test this so i'm gonna show the who asked this test probably some mods honestly what is this i i
feel like i'm talking to one viewer right now like what the hell no one's hello you have never been
more in sync than today this is incredible i don't know what to do so obviously in that example you
could see that there was a lot of people in chat that were basically pressing the button when a mod
had put the easy clap content there the thing about larger streamers is that they obviously
don't read every single message there's so much chat there that they tend to feel the emotion
within the chat based on the emotes or repeated messages that they see so it's almost like more
of a feeling by seeing the density of text rather than any one individual text when you get to the
state where you're in where you're getting 50 100 000 viewers and it's simply impossible for a
streamer to read so having this as an option on the forward slash champ for the mods to
almost like direct the feeling and the emotion in chat based on what's happening in the game or in
the stream it's actually quite a cool thing that they're doing it does remain to be seen whether or
not this will be something that stays ultimately i think it'll be money that decides whether or not
this stays if streamers as a result of having this have a stronger more lucrative community there's a
good chance that the chance will be rolled out so who's gonna get this at the moment i know i'll get
the questions when people watch this video clearly this is in test and beta mode at the moment and
only a very small fraction of people have it whilst they test it if it doesn't work nobody
might get it they may never roll this out if it does work then more than likely roll out at least
to partners and affiliates i suspect they will not roll out to non-affiliates and non-partners and
the reason is because you don't get customisable emotes when you're a non-partner and non-affiliate
and the emotes are obviously a key part of the chance i said i'd go through some interesting
opinions on this that people have shown there is this forum that twitch has which is kind of
twitch.uservoice.com it allows people when they're running tests to give direct feedback about any
new things that they're testing it's a good thing that they're doing this they're trying to canvas
user feedback it's really really useful they say hey we'd love to hear your thoughts and
suggestions we look forward to hearing your feedback man some of these comments oh in
my opinion we better get feedback first before pushing this test out without letting streamers
to disable it screenshot of what it looks like was sufficient enough for me to understand the concept
man agent dave's having a really really bad day i like it's sharon's feedback here i could see
this as a feature that could be a fun way for shy users to interact without feeling the pressure to
chat this is obviously low commitment low effort like easy almost like part of the crowd content
someone that is chatting and of course you get all kinds of different personalities i really like the
sentiment of what she's saying here you don't know who's in the background watching your stream that
might want to get involved but perhaps doesn't want to introduce themselves and have the pressure
of doing that so this is potentially a really nice way of including those people and helping them to
feel more included which is obviously very important to building a wide-ranging community
with all types of people and a very inclusive community as well a few people are saying things
like it's spammy and so on and so forth no one really asked for this but often with innovations
like this people don't really know what they want until it's put in front of you a couple of people
saying you know it encourages spam and things like that but that's kind of the whole point as long as
the mods are not doing this every two seconds it's probably not going to be much of a problem
and it probably will encourage people to be more inclusive it was saying to remove it the thing is
twitch will just have the option to turn it on or off so it's pretty narrow-minded thinking of
the people that are even making these comments to say oh please remove this well why don't you just
have a button to turn it off on your channel if you don't like it you then have the option so
thanks a lot waka this feature sucks i mean i'm not sure what the three stars are but i think we
can use our imagination some other interesting feedback here this guy says chanting likes my
chromebook to death who has a chromebook so while i like the feature and it works great
on other devices maybe a way to hide them and any people just spamming the chat might help that's
actually quite an important piece of feedback and my favorite comment of all of them is this guy
this is probably one of the worst things added to twitch since i started using
twitch the chance just flood the chat with pointless spam and chat unbearable if this
feature stays i'm going to have to stop using twitch chat and without chat i don't care for
the emotes anymore so why would i subscribe anymore okay dude okay twitch is probably gonna
remove it now because this one person said that he's not going to subscribe as a result of it
oh god
let me know what you think of the chat function below i think it's a really good idea and i think
it's good that twitch are trying to add new features it's just a really good sign of a
platform that's trying to create a better more inclusive community as always have a brilliant
day feel free to like the video subscribe and take it easy cheerio guys this is so [ __ ] dumb
totally unnecessary