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"networking"
For small indies it's about hooking up or sexpesting, or about selling your body to bigger and more influential streamers.
For big platform stars it's a mandatory humiliation ritual where you pay obeisance to twitch staff and their related corporate interests and perform free marketing for the platform as a way to buy protection from arbitrary bans or hidden blacklists that will sink your channel and redirect your audience to someone willing to play ball.
And yes, for most of the big platform indies who are women, this involves having a lot of sex.
Small indies or fresh viral stars often go to twitchcon oblivious and are shocked to discover the entire culture is a little Epstein island for nerds and losers. It's not just an incidental thing because cons are a good place for ldr couples to hook up or a few bad apples putting roofies in drinks, it's a concerted and conscientious culture of exchanging sex, money and blackmail for the connections, agreements and favours that are necessary to be successful.
There's a reason that like 90% of the top female twitch channels, vtuber and fleshie, are all past or current sex workers.
