I had no idea what that meant. Found this article that explains it: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-set-up-text-to-speech...
"You can set up text-to-speech donations on Twitch through a widget called an 'Alert Box.' With text-to-speech donations enabled, viewers can attach messages to their donations, which will then be read aloud on your stream."
It notes: "You can also set up a blacklist of words that the text-to-speech robot won't read."
A common TTS would be something like "Go back through the door on the left you missed the best weapon in the game you single celled organism 777777777777777777" . A mixture of helpful, berating, and spam.
There’s people who have endless time (teenaged trolls) and there’s people who have endless money (lonely middle aged techies)
The teenaged trolls (incels) provide the engagement, and the lonely middle aged techies (simps) provide the spending.
There's tons of streamers that don't allow their chat to be a disaster. For others, allowing chat to go nuts is their MO.
The funniest thing to me is utterly un-insteresting "tit streamers" wearing as little as they can to avoid violating ToS.
IMO twitch is just a reflection of the differences in viewing tastes. There's an extremely wide range of channels and personalities. Something for everyone.
It really, really depends on the community the streamer creates. I spent a lot of time watching a transwoman who is a high-level MOBA player. She had a very active mod base who banned toxic or wanna-be edgy people.
She had automatic notifications that would post user-submitted messages across the screen. They were almost uniformly positive. Because of the community she fostered.
On the otherhand, there was a streamer of the same game who had a toxic community who would abuse text-to-speech. What was the difference? He himself was a toxic player, which attracted a toxic community trying to out-meme one another.
From people trying to trigger a woman who has tourettes to disguised n-word spam, it's way worse than even your average comment section. Not really sure how to fix it either. One big problem I think is this feature that streamers have figured out where you let viewers pay a few bucks of money and then they can use it for text-to-speech. It's basically designed to give trolls an outsized platform.