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Re:Clubhouse Payments by tmpz22 on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:25PM (#26705981)
Every content platform has a slew of top earners who are effectively bad actors. But they're profitable so they get to stay.

Diet supplements, vitamins, and other garbage on Youtube.

xQc on Twitch.

Every. Single. One.

Re:Clubhouse Payments by ZephyrBlu on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:29PM (#26706027)
How is xQc a bad actor? He just memes with his chat.
Re:Clubhouse Payments by tmpz22 on Monday April 05, 2021 @09:17PM (#26706908)
Are you trolling? He's been banned over a dozen times from twitch, OWL, GTA5 RP, for a reason. His chat spills over to other streamers, harasses them on Twitter and Instagram, and spreads misogynistic (whore, slut, etc.), and homophobic, filth.

The last incident? Yesterday [1].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/search/?q=xqc&sort=t...

Re:Clubhouse Payments by ZephyrBlu on Monday April 05, 2021 @09:44PM (#26707070)
xQc is just an edgy entertainer with a short fuse. I wouldn't class him as a bad actor because I don't think he intentionally tries to ruin things.

Twitch chat is also a completely different beast that no one controls.

Re:Clubhouse Payments by iaml on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @03:01PM (#26715909)
Not only is he not managing his fanbase, he is actively encouraging stream hopping. Moreover when he was banned from nopixel yesterday, server got ddosed into the ground afterwards ruining other people's streams.
Re:Clubhouse Payments by PeterisP on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:54PM (#26706231)
Well that's kind of the big difference - such a bad actor is profitable for Youtube or Twitch (since they earn from the "safe" money stream of ads and engagement and are not in the risky money stream of payments for the shady goods/services), but loss-making if you're a payment intermediary without any direct revenue from their fraudulent schemes like Clubhouse intends to be.