Robot attack
Twitch was launched in 2011 and was acquired by Amazon three years later. It has more than 30 million daily visits, and most of them watch other people play video games with entertaining reviews.
But this does not mean that it cannot be used for serious purposes.
Swedish lecturer Gabriel Erikkson Sahlin uses the username BabblingGoat to log in to play “The Sims” and “Dragon Age”.
He smiled and said that the 24-year-old transgender man gently answered questions about gender identity in the live chat-including the child’s recent anxious parents-“falling down in the game and trying not to die at the same time.”
He is frustrated that his efforts to create positive things are being undermined by transgender abuse with an alarming pattern.
The scale of hate raids varies: they may involve a few people posting hate messages, or hundreds of people may be involved.
People also program bots to post endless offensive spam, sometimes in the form of “bloody attacks”-a series of images of extreme violence.
