They’re “alt” platforms for people who feel like Twitch and YouTube are too “woke and gay” and they’re run by crypto gambling companies

If I remember correctly Rumble was started as a "conservative streaming platform" after YouTube and Twitch start deplatforming some right-wingers for hate speech, encouraging violence, etc.

Kick is a little weirder. They came onto the scene booking big multimillion dollar exclusivity deals with a ton of established streamers, and wasn't started explicitly as a politically motivated streaming platform. They operate entirely off of AWS, pay streamers significantly more while having fewer real viewers than Twitch, so they are quite clearly not profitable at all, and notably have a lot of gambling streams (and explicitly permit gambling streams in their terms) so there's a lot of speculation that they're owned by one or multiple of the big gambling platforms and it's operated as an advertisement for online gambling.

Both platforms have developed deserved reputations of being reluctant to punish illegal and immoral behavior by streamers, and many streamers are reluctant or fully morally opposed to streaming on/supporting either platform.

One streamer my wife watches exclusively streams on twitch and his wife exclusively streams on Kick, and every time he mentions it you can tell by his change in tone that it's something he doesn't agree with, and can hear the distaste in his voice when he mentions that it's on Kick, but can also tell he does it to support his wife

Parti I don't really know but I think that might be another "conservative" one? I honestly can't remember.

They’re like the difference between Patreon and OnlyFans. Patreon has stricter rules about what can be posted. So all of the people who needed to post things against Patreon’s rules ended up on OnlyFans. If you’re too extreme for Twitch, you end up on one of those alternative streaming sites. And he was too extreme even for those alt sites.

Rumble started as an alt-right streaming site, after Twitch started banning Nazis for hate speech. They got butthurt that they weren’t allowed to spew hate speech, and started their own streaming site instead.

Kick is a weird one, which basically started by recruiting established streamers. They sniped established streamers from Twitch, with the promise of better pay-per-view. They have a significantly lower user base compared to Twitch, but supposedly pay those streamers more. Aside from that, it has a lot of gambling streams. Lots of Twitch streamers tend to view Kick as a sort of morally grey area, because there is speculation that the entire site is basically a gigantic online gambling ad.

I haven’t heard a lot about Parti, but it seems to be a sort of last-ditch landing ground for people who have been banned from other platforms. Jack Doherty was one of their biggest streamers for a while, after getting banned on Kick for fighting a dude on stream. He got stream-sniped, and in response he basically sic’ed his security team on the stream sniper. They chased him down and beat him in the street, live on stream. Kick banned him, while Parti kept him on. He was banned from Parti not too long ago, though. Not sure why.

those are apparently degenertes platform where twitch streamers go to become obscure.

Content to post where??

Yes. The forcing of Korean captives into Japanese soldiers' "comfort women" is a common sore point in geopolitics between both Koreas and Japan. Japan has refused to give a real apology, and occasionally South Korea and Japan have visible clashes over the topic.

There are some good ones out there, but they're not the ones with huge followings.

He's a slimeball, but no human being deserves that.

I don't think that would be a bad thing.

The stockades never should have gone away. (Figuratively speaking, publicly shaming people for being stupid assholes needs to come back)

You're absolutely right!

He did the same shit in Japan and only got deported and banned. He simply assumed Korea would be the same. Good to see Korea don't play.

America itself doesn't even adhere to it.

Especially when it comes to hate speech and inciting violence, etc. Even America has restraints on inciting violence, but other countries definitely restrict things like hate speech, while the conservatives in America just go BUCK WILD with the hate speech and then have meltdowns when private platforms boot them for violating the TOS and they cry about their "free speech" and how "conservative speech" is being restricted, LOL.

It's weird how conservative speech always needs to involve hate as its core tenet. These assholes are never kicked from these platforms because they were discussing tax policy or deregulating big business.

If he had bothered to read his passport it says plainly that you are subject to all local laws, and that their penalties are probably worse, but the US doesn't care.

Can we get a live stream of him doing hard labor? That would be amazing!

engaged in a nation wide manhunt to get the fucker who gave a lap dance to a statue [...]

That seems extreme.

[...] of a child [...]

oof

[...] that was constructed to remember the systematic rapes the imperial japanese military commit.

damn it man

This is a person who fairly regularly gets punched out on stream. I genuinely think he doesn't have the mental capacity to change from this 6 month sentence, possibly even before he started getting punched out.

I am surprised it’s only 6 months.

Sounds like it.

Fact. Should've been "bag of trash". 🤌🏼

Even worse, jeez.

Or maybe if quantum immortality is real, he's off in his own universe where it worked out for him while the rest of us take the "fucker's getting what he deserved" branch.

Sounds charming

Depending on the goal, I think it can be very effective.