Greetings! The name is Time Lizzy, or Time as my friends call me. They/Them pronouns. I love to try new things, draw, sing, dance, garden, and I do some witchcraft in my free time. I'm a Hetalia role playing partner if you guys are interested.
That’s part of why we’ve been focusing on keeping our funding at crowdfunding and why we’re keeping ads restricted to user ads!
I’ve spoken to quite a few investors in 2018, and what I’ve learned from talking to them is that many of these alternative sites are built by entrepreneurs who are seeded with tons of money from rich relatives and are seeking a 10-year strategy to build up a company before selling it off. One of the primary things that I was told was that WritScrib should have an “exit strategy” where we sell ourselves to a bigger company so we can move on to start a new business venture.
A lot of these companies are built with the intent of selling it off to a bigger company and burning any bridges made with the userbase to get there. It’s an ugly part of working with advertisers, too: advertisers don’t want anything too controversial to be associated with them, as the negative PR comes back to bite them. This puts pressure on companies to restrict user content more in order to appeal to advertisers.
All of that being said: I’m not certain about the intent behind Twitch’s updated guidelines. They were having a pretty major issue with streamers who were deliberately using a larger webcam screen and revealing clothing to try and entice viewers, which was already skirting the line of their TOS, and they had a recent incident with a larger streamer openly mocking people who have anxiety/depression who started censoring his chat when they disagreed with him.
I would always recommend being wary of sites that have to cater to advertisers, though: remember that advertisers provide the bulk of their income, and are thus their most important customers. We’re making sure that our most important customers are our users.
And also? I really hate ads. I don’t want to force you guys to stare at some malware-encrusted ad trying to sell you some PC scanning tool. Because I don’t want to stare at it.
I don’t remember who it was but there was incident with a scumbag streamer that got a clearly drunk off her ass girl to join the video feed and then him and his fans talked her doing all kinds of explicit things on cam for them.
It might’ve been Keemstar come to think of it and even if it wasn’t on Twitch the fact it happened puts ALL the major streaming hosts under pressure to crack down.
If that’s true then it wouldn’t be too surprising that Twitch had to crack down!
if that’s true then it wouldn’t be too surprising that twitch had to crack down
^Haiku^bot^8. I detect haikus with 5-7-5 format. Sometimes I make mistakes.
Aries: Daedala – celebrated in Boeotia in honor of Hera. In the festival, a wooden statue was dressed completely as a bride, to present Hera’s protectiveness of marriages and brides. At the end of the festival the statue would be burned along with sacrificial animals and a wooden altar.
Taurus: Noumenia – celebrated on the first day of the lunar month, it was described as the holiest of all days. On that day everything exhausting or stressful was forbidden, government would shut down, along with everything else in the city. Everyone just stayed at home and relaxed. Later in the day they would go out and give their offerings to the gods.
Gemini: Hybristica – festival in honor of Aphrodite at which either sex appeared in the dress of the other. Women would insult their husbands and treated them with every mark of inferiority as they are for the rest part of the year and men were forced to just sit there in their dresses and stay quiet.
Cancer: Antesphoria – Flower festival celebrated on Sicily and Peloponnesus in honor of Persephone. It represented her gentle and soft side before she was taken to the Underworld. On this day everyone would pick the most beautiful flowers and make wreaths and leave them on the ground as an offering.
Leo: Pyanopsia – Athenian festival in Apollo’s honor. This festival included playing of rustic music and brining two offerings to Apollo’s temple. Hodgepodge of pulse (the first ripen fruits and edible seeds of previous harvest) and a branch of olive or laurel bound with wool, around which were fruits common in that season
Virgo: Brauronia – Festival of Artemis in Brauron, in which girls, aged between five and ten, dressed in saffron robes and played a game where everyone acted like they are bears. They danced, trying to appease to the goddess. Since she sent a plague to their city after her bear was killed..
Libra: Adonia – festival held annually for women to mourn the death of Adonis. It was not a state festival, but actually organized solely by women of Athens. From notable wives to prostitutes. During the festivals all the women danced. sang and drank on their rooftops before descending to the street and mimicking a funeral for Adonis.
Scorpio: Thargelia – festival in the honor of Apollo and Artemis. It was held in May on their birthdays. The festival included offerings of the first fruits of the earth that came after the winter, sacrificing sheep and swine + sacrificing two ugliest men they could find. One for the protection of men and one for the protection of women.
Sagittarius: Orgia – enraptured style festival. It is more of a cult worship than a festival. It was on Dionysus honor. Participants were heavily under influence of alcohol and would dance around with masks and torches in their hands and trying to sacrifice as many animals, that surrounded them, as they could.
Capricorn: Panathenaea – Athenian festival in honor of goddess Athena. It was held every 4 years in rivalry with Olympic games. It is one of the biggest and most important festivals. It consists of lots different games. Embroidering new robe for Athena, musical contests, sports and sacrificing of domestic animals.
Aquarius: Cotyttia – night orgiastic festival that celebrated sex. It was in honor of Kotys, goddess of sex, but it is actually believed that that is just an aspect of Persephone. They celebrated Persephone’s transfer to the Underworld and the fact that she gave into Hades and let him have her body.
Pisces: Dionysia – Athenian festival in honor of God Dionysus. It consists of theatrical performances of tragedies and comedies. It was also big part of Dionysian mysteries.
