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Elon Musk asks Twitch streamers to move to Twitter – they say no-Kenneth Andersen-Entertainment – Metro
Top Twitch streamers Ludwig and CohhCarnage are among the ones keen to call Elon Musk a hypocrite over viral sexual content meme.
That really backfired for Elon Musk (Twitter/YouTube)
Top Twitch streamers Ludwig and CohhCarnage are among the ones calling Elon Musk a hypocrite over viral sexual content meme.
It seems that every time Elon Musk talks about video games his audience is left rather unimpressed, like when he claimed he was one of the best Quake players in the world, while others said he wasn’t very good, or when he got into it with an Elden Ring streamer who beat the game using Morse code.
Earlier this year Musk also revealed that he wanted to make Twitter a force in the livestreaming industry, by exploring ways to monetise the platform for content creators, having livestreamed himself playing Diablo 4 numerous times on Twitter before.
When the billionaire recently encouraged Twitch streamers to follow suit, however – making a joke that the streaming site is full of half-naked people and not gamers – it only pushed them away further, with some calling him a hypocrite.
Musk tweeted, ‘Stream on X,’ adding a meme in which Mr Burns and Smithers from The Simpsons are approaching a bar.
The caption reads, ‘Perhaps there’s some video game streams in here,’ and is followed by another image of the inside of a strip club.
We’d guess that the joke is that Twitch has become more known for sexually suggestive content nowadays, rather than video games, but the content creators themselves didn’t find it funny.
Twitch streamer CohhCarnage called out Musk’s hypocrisy, reposting the tweet and saying:
‘Elon is posting about a bunch of sexual content on a platform that he doesn’t think should be there. The real joke here is he isn’t talking about Twitter.’
‘The idea that you should stream on Twitter because there’s less sexual content is insane, porn bots run this site,’ said Ludwig.
‘Goober has clearly never gone into the replies on a single tweet in the last six months. This site is infested with porn bots just spread a****** pictures on every post,’ Moistcritical said on Twitter.
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Other popular streamers such as HasanAbi and Alinity also made fun of Musk’s tweet, which currently sits at 477,000 likes and 32,000 reposts.
If Musk wants to poach talent from rival sites, a better strategy would be by offering them better cuts of the subscriber fee and advertisement revenue.
That being said, both Twitch and Twitter have lots of sexually suggestive content, so neither can really claim the moral high ground.
Elon Musk is all about Diablo 4 (Twitter)
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