Twitch has officially left South Korea, and streamers decided to protest with some very explicit content, before servers went offline.
Not only has the Amazon-owned Twitch cut 500 jobs from its workforce this year but it’s also announced that it will stop all operations in South Korea entirely.
That gave Korean streamers less than three months to figure out what to do with their careers, before the streaming platform’s servers went offline in the country on Tuesday, February 27.
As the deadline approached several streamers decided to leave on very explicit terms, with some broadcasting hentai while another revealed far too much of their body.
Streamer Daeyong2 spent his last moments on Twitch streaming a hentai game to his followers, with little censorship, before being banned.
Irin-Chan decided to go a step further by undressing and showing parts of her underwear, while live streaming on the same day, seemingly protesting that Twitch was about to be no more in her country.
The clips have gone viral on Reddit, and many applaud their protest, or just find it amusing.
‘If that’s the way to go out, alright. More power to them all I say. What are they gonna do? Ban them?’ said TinyLebron.
‘Might as well go out with a bang, literally,’ YuriWinter added.
The reason Twitch left South Korea is because it’s too expensive to operate in the country, according to Twitch CEO Dan Clancy when he announced the departure in early December.
‘This morning, I shared with our community in Korea that we’ve made the difficult decision to shut down the Twitch business in Korea on February 27, 2024 KST.
‘Ultimately, the cost to operate Twitch in Korea is prohibitively expensive and we have spent significant effort working to reduce these costs so that we could find a way for the Twitch business to remain in Korea.’
Though there are other streaming platforms operating in South Korea, that the affected creators can pivot to, moving a fanbase there – that might’ve taken years to amass – is no easy feat.
For now, though, they probably don’t have any regrets going out with a bang.
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