Twitch users were surprised to find pornography on their covers this week, which has resulted in the deactivation of a new feature at the moment. This type of content reached the covers of the viewers on Twitch through a “Boost Train” function aimed at providing viewers the opportunity to promote their favorite content creators and increase the visibility of these transmissions. Since then, Twitch stopped the test of this function, but he did not specify the reason for his arrest or said when the function would be restored.
On Twitter, the Twitch Streamer, Zach Bussey, who frequently covers news related to Twitch and content creators. He shared some publications People put on Reddit and Twitter who showed pornography on their target pages. Naturally, those publications are NSFW Lasasi that visit them with that in mind if you need a test of the last twitch uproar.
Then, it is not too surprising that Twitch has not disabled this function, even if a specific reason was not given. Confirmed Twitch for PC player that Boost Train tests had stopped due to “security-related problems”.
This Boost Train function works in a similar way to the controversial Paid Boost Boost function presented last year. In the previous iteration, the spectators could pay to promote their favorite content creators to take those transmissions to the home page so that, in theory, the transmitters could earn even more spectators. Boost Train works a little differently by allowing people to promote streamers, but it does so through bought subscriptions and twitch instead of simply throwing money to twitch. It is still a pay option, but it is one that benefits the streamers a little more, since the previous version did not see anything of money spent on the streamers.
Twitch Boost Train tests began in March, so people did not take long to discover a way to manipulate the function. On the help page by detailed Boost Train and how it works, Twitch said that the function is “still experimental” and that it was only given a “random group of smaller streamers” for the initial tests. The same publication also said that Twitch would communicate on “any broader release or changes in the current experience”, so we may see a solution for this detailed situation in the future when the Boost Train tests are resumed.