Not including my tournament obviously haHA. Speaking of next video is Tournament number 3 with Technicals co-casting! Look forward to it soon! 💪

You are 100% correct about that last part. The fact they decided to roll back those changes right now does not mean they will not be implemented. They WILL definitely be implemented, they will just do it more sneakily and gradually until they arrive at the same point. That's how it's always done.

Note at the end of video I discuss twitch “rolling back” the policy changes but big caveat there…

Twitch try not to destroy their platform challenge: impossible

Take a shot everytime Zero says TORNAMENTS 😂

This is probably one of the worst decisions ever made by a company in recent years

For those who dont know that twitch has removed these policies after all the bad publicity and publicly apologized

ZeRo tournaments should be called the "ZeRo Cares Tourney" since ZeRo cares about the scene, as well as he gives 0 cares about the hate he might get from it.

It has been time to create a new streaming platform from a long time ago.

For the people who have no idea about how this ended: most of this stuff got removed the day after putting these forward. After a shit ton of pushback.

Funny enough, what bugs me the most about this is the fee they’ll charge if you don’t sign on to the new terms. It’s small (like $25 or something), but if they’re changing the terms, the other side should have the ability to accept or decline without punishment. Like imagine if you hire someone to build something and they outright decide to build something else, and then threaten to charge you if you don’t agree to the new plan.

I’m still so impressed on ZeRo’s glow up, Ik it doesn’t relate to the video but your looking great man and a huge inspiration to any who wants to get in shape, thank you for continuing to making awesome content for smash and fitness fans alike!

I feel like maybe they can sort something out in terms of sponsorship in the future, especially if this gets brought to their attention.

The smash scenery dies just for Zero to take it over. That's actually pretty funny

Nobody's going to start a live streaming career on Twitch, knowing that KZfaq is an alternative.

Imo they do more damage to themselves by trying to enforce greedy policies like these. Idk if it is subjective but I have the feeling that streaming on KZfaq has become more popular as of recently. Chances are that those who are affected most by these changes would just switch platforms. This includes the Smash Community and their events.

Sounds like they’re retracting those rules, but we’ll find out

I think Ludwig is right in regards to this change, they're just implementing it now so they can target very specific groups of people/companies in case they ever somehow exploit a loophole which would begin stealing traffic and adsense away from Twitch. KZfaq has the same wording in their TOS but youtubers still get sponsors and put full on video ads in their videos all the time without KZfaq punishing them. Very sus of them to publicly fold just to lowkey put it in the new TOS though and force partners to agree to it, Twitch also doesn't have the best track record of consistent enforcement either so whether they'll play it the same as KZfaq or not we have no idea..

They definitely need to look at other options for broadcasting 100%. Twitch is just too volatile and unstable.

This reminds me a video someone made a few years ago about the risk of being a content creator like this for KZfaq, Twitch, etc of something like changes happening that can ruin your job.

Did you know that KZfaq conveniently lowered the requirements to become a partner and be able to stream on their platform for completely unrelated reasons?

Did anyone else. 😂 At the beginning of the video make zero say the twitch more then once

High desert e-sports(my region) streams on KZfaq as opposed to twitch. Twitch also walked back on these things, and kick and KZfaq are technically options too

Had me worried, thought you were talking about your tournaments!

they said they were gonna make an exception for events like that

I read that as "My smash bros tourneys are done" and got so scared

Thumbnail artiest did ZeRo dirty.

I wonder if zero makes anything from videos anymore.

Ok. Anyways so I was blasting-

Can the tournaments switch to KZfaq for streaming instead of Twitch?

Are there any other streaming services that people can change to?

The fact that Twitch has effectively shown their hand means almost every content creator, not just the ones in the Smashsphere, are likely going to be looking for practically any other platform. If Google is watching, revisiting and updating KZfaq's streaming accessibility and tools might be an insanely smart decision with the future of Twitch so uncertain.

Wasn't there a streaming platform called "kick" or something like that? I wonder if that would be better for streamng tournaments

Bros lips are begging for water.

One of the things they changed that I don't think was rolled back is that you are not allowed to simulcast with other platforms.

This whole situation sucks

This isn't just smash tourneys on twitch. This is all FGC tourneys. I foresee everyone moving to Kick or KZfaq, for streaming tournaments.

this is probably going to make youtube a bigger platform for streamers because even if they dont do the changes company’s wont be able to trust twitch in regards to how they market their brand

I think they rolled back on them already. Hopefully anyway

Twitch has been fucking up for a long time now

They walked a lot of this back a few days ago I believe, but there is still a bunch of stuff they left in the updated TOS/Agreement that they did not walk back, and expected people not to notice. Shady stuff

So is it better to just stream on YT now?

My biggest fear right now is that, since KZfaq and Twitch are the only viable platforms to stream on, the only way to rebel against one making an ass change is to support the other greedy corporation. There's currently nothing stopping them from just trading the creators back and forth through progressively shittier changes to each other's websites, and only stopping once one has gotten so bad that even the most popular creators cannot support themselves and one or both platforms implode. I feel like we've already seen it start to play out over these last couple years, so I really hope we get some rising star in the coming years that steals all their users by providing a halfway decent service to users and creators.

And that’s when KZfaq streaming comes in

gamers, its time to start streaming on the adult sites, less rules there.

Didn’t they like immediately go back on their statement? Aren’t they changing it back to what it was before?

Aren’t you late on this? I thought they already said that they’re not gonna do that? Or at least to that extent

Use some chapstick bro I was too distracted staring

Ontop of that, the fact that Steve still isnt banned at most tournaments will hurt the numbers aswell. GLGT

This is why you need alternative platforms. Help them grow

They reverted the changes of the ads

This is why I believe in Kick

Everything is killing itself lately, huh… Reddit, Twitch, Twitter to some.

Its not done people just need to learn how to move to another platform thats all

They'll probably just move to Kick or KZfaq

Holy shit, you look like a whole different person now.

You are missing a very simple solution: KZfaq streamed tourneys

youre basically gonna be the lone tourney operator soon. lmaos

"Hey Iron Mike, what's your opinion on the Twitch change?" Mike Tyson: "Fuck Floyd Mayweather" -Source: Trust me 🅱️ro

Not just smashbros, even events like league majors heavyly rely on sponsors, so this will screw every big event basically, cause twitch would never pay the money to rent a big stadium for a tournament or something. At this point i feel like twitch is just trying to advertise YT-Live

Don't worry, they said that they were gonna reverse the policy change on twitter.

So, basically Smash Bros has a chance that it will become completly grassroots

And this is why content creators are migrating to KZfaq.

Welp, guess we gotta stream tournaments on KZfaq now.

In a sense, this reminds me of when KZfaq chose to take away the dislike button numbers. Only difference is that Twitch listened.(after being horribly flamed by content creators and fans)

Can't you still have advertiser stuff in person, and still do in person ads?

This might be the end of hot tub streams 🤣

We need a new streaming platform

if this change does go through most people if not everyone will move to other platforms like kick or youtube

Back to the fields 🍎🍏

This is going to be so good in the long run. The tech monopolies are about to end. Expect increase govt regulation as a desperation play by the corpos.

Twitch trynna purposely let kick take over.

tech would be a better commentator if he knew anything about the game

haven't used twitch in years, no need. theres gotta be better options for streaming

I should build a simple streaming platform and run it at a loss, and allow creators to put ads. Could be a fun project

I think the solution is pretty obvious: long-term, the Smash community simply needs to decouple itself from Twitch (as well as possibly even KZfaq) and take a chance on Rumble or Kick. This would be the time to do it. They can establish a foothold on these communities before they blow up and it gets harder to negotiate good deals. Twitch is an incredibly toxic platform for so many reasons, and I think gamers are finally getting fed up with it. Although the Smash has many problems, this is something they should all be able to agree on.

Im not a streamer but just the fact that Twitch would roll out a change like that, ignore the livelihood of people that keep their platform running, and only undo their change after the backlash says a lot. These people aren't morons that don't know any better, they did a power flex and hoped their users would follow suit without question. I hope this platform falls apart soon

Zach Bussey is just someone that reports on Twitch / Streaming / Creator news. He is not the CEO

THORNAMENTS

I've even noticed Fatality streaming on KZfaq now more than twitch, twitch is going down

Somebody have theories explaining the reasons behind those stupid decisions? For me, it's just doesn't make any sense to forbid the presence of any third party sponsors.

I really hope Rumble/Kick becomes viable for gaming events and whatnot. Oh wait, smash bros tournaments? Don't really care about those🤣

Newest info of the twitch controversy (5:12). Everything before is dated.

The irony here is that people, not everyone mind you, but some people had used twitch because they didn't want to deal with KZfaq, but now most people affected by twitch's stupidity are considering youtube streams.

I dont get why they dont stream on youtube regardless of this anyway

Idk why they dont just take a small percentage of sponsor revenue

Any fellow devs out there wanna make a replacement platform on our spare time?

Twitch walked all that back, right? ZeRo is out of the loop.

I thought twitch removed the polices.

Stream on kicks

Goddaym

Their biggest F UP is getting rid of their number 1 money gaining streamer. Kai Cenat

KZfaq is a good platform to stream oj

They reverted it already

Man, I got click baited again! Suggestion for next title: SMASH BRO COMMUNITY IS DEAD …serious about not letting me return.

I get what you're saying here Zero, but this isn't the death of Smash Bros content, it's the death of Twitch. Streamers will just move to other more reasonable platforms. I just can't understand why Twitch is so adamant on going through with this change, despite it absolutely being a suicidal move.

I feel like this is a path all free to use soc med platforms end up in. They start and have rules that are fine, as the content creators grow, the site grows and both make money. At some point the site isnt growing anymore because doubling 20 people is easy, doubling 2,000,000 is a lot harder, so they cut revenue to try to boost own profits. And then they keep squeezing until creators need outside sponsors, and then the stupid ass platform makes other new rules and things start going downhill.

lets go Zero

Why won't you just love stream your tournaments on KZfaq? 🤷

seems like twitch is gonna start a process for sponsors to go through twitch directly. thats what my money is on, atleast :P