For perhaps as long as Twitch has existed, there has been a myth : On exceedingly rare occasions, if the stars align perfectly, the ever-popular "Kappa" chat emote will turn gold. Some have suggested that a single Twitch user receives golden Kappa abilities every 24 hours. Others believe you have to fulfill highly specific prerequisites in order to unlock it. Yesterday, out of the blue, Twitch gave it to everybody . Twitch streamers and viewers, in turn, did not give a shit, because they were too busy recovering from the DMCApocalypse. Advertisement Last week, Twitch abruptly deleted thousands of videos in compliance with copyright complaints from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and other music industry entities. The Amazon-owned platform did not tell streamers what it had deleted, nor did it give them a chance to dispute claims. Instead, the company encouraged them to delete all of their clips and VODs, just to be safe, and pointed them to new tools they could use to avoid running afoul of DMCA rules in the future. This was understandably heartbreaking for many streamers, who had to scramble to download and reupload their histories elsewhere before those suddenly sordid pasts got them… Read full this story
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