• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    In announcing the change, Twitch cited the “costly” indefinite storage of these highlights, which it says are responsible for “less than 0.1% of hours watched” across the site.

    I don’t know how many hours are watched on Twitch, but I bet it’s so many that 0.1% is still a fuckton of hours.

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      13 hours ago

      it definitely is and I bet a lot of the people that are watching them are spending more money on the site than many other people because they are so dedicated to a content creator.

      • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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        2 hours ago

        Yeah, maybe. A lot of that is also probably people that put up someone’s 80 hour Minecraft vod on repeat to fall asleep to