Due to their live nature, all kinds of things can, and often do, go wrong during Twitch streams. Sometimes this leads to delightful incidents, such as the time Snoop Dog rage quit Madden NFL and accidentally left the broadcast on for hours, and sometimes it leads to the streamer having the broadcast removed, as is the case with Mizkif’s recent kerfuffle involving a Rihanna music video.
The incident occurred several hours in Mizkif’s subathon, which is an event where streamers broadcast for extremely long spans of time in order to raise their number of subscribers. Mizkif’s subathon was actually a reverse subathon however, in which each new subscriber the broadcaster earned took a second off a timer that was counting down while he tried to beat ten games.
Generally, when streams are removed after playing copyrighted content it’s the result of a DMCA take down. Twitch even censored its own Metallica broadcast to avoid this very issue. However, when Mizkif played a Rihanna music video during his stream, it was taken down because of imagery that Twitch deemed to be sexually explicit.
The music video in question is Rihanna’s Work featuring Drake. In a specific moment in the video Rihanna is wearing a semi-transparent top, and unfortunately because of this, Mizkif was forced to stop and delete his broadcast. With some subathons going for several days, and others like fellow streamer Ludwig’s Twitch stream lasting a full week, having to cut things several hours in left many Mizkif viewers confused.
Mizkif took to Twitter to briefly explain the incident moments after it happened and announced that he’d be starting up a new broadcast in an hour. From there it seems it was smooth sailing, but the interesting moment did lead to a discussion amongst fans about the differences between YouTube and Twitch broadcasts. For one thing, as Rihanna’s Work music video lives on the artist’s YouTube channel without any censorship, if Mizkif had watched the clip on a YouTube stream it likely wouldn’t have caused any issues, save a possible DMCA claim.
While some streamers like Dr Disrespect have been forced to move to YouTube, there is also a huge streaming community on the platform who simply prefer it to Twitch. It doesn’t appear Mizkif will be making a move anytime soon though, nor does it appear the broadcaster was all that upset about having to delete and restart his stream, as his Tweets and subsequent stream were largely lighthearted affairs.
Sources: Twitter/Mizkif, Reddit
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