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Yesterday’s planned #ADayOffTwitch protest<\/a> appears to have made an impact on the platform’s overall viewer totals, as users aimed to make their voices heard to support marginalised streamers who regularly face hate speech and coordinated attacks from bigots on their channels. <\/p>\n

Stats site Twitchtracker<\/a> shows around a million fewer viewers were tuned into the streaming giant during its daily peak yesterday, when the platform’s average peak of 4.5 million concurrent viewers sat at around 3.5 million instead.<\/p>\n

Many streamers voiced their support for the protest yesterday, although there was squabbling among some channels which did continue to broadcast for various reasons, including some seemingly taking advantage of big names being offline. <\/p>\n

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Yesterday’s planned #ADayOffTwitch protest appears to have made an impact on the platform’s overall viewer totals, as users aimed to make their voices heard to support marginalised streamers who regularly face hate speech and coordinated attacks from bigots on their channels. Stats site Twitchtracker shows around a million fewer viewers were tuned into the streaming giant during its daily peak yesterday, when the platform’s average peak of 4.5 million concurrent viewers sat at around 3.5 million instead. Many streamers voiced their support for the protest yesterday, although there was squabbling among some channels which did continue to broadcast for various reasons, including some seemingly taking advantage of big names being offline. 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