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Rachel ‘Valkyrae’ Hofstetter was forced to turn her Twitter profile to private following online abuse by a stalker, who for the past few months has reportedly made over a hundred accounts after Valkyrae kept blocking him.

Valkyrae has amassed over 3 million subscribers after shifting to YouTube from Twitch. Joining early in the Among Us hype train has helped her become the most-watched female stream of 2020, breezing past Pokimane. 3 million subscribers boast the obvious implications of her popularity which, as good as it sounds comes with its fair share of shortcomings.

Valkyrae for the past few months was subjected to a stalker, after finding no way out, she was forced to private her Twitter account as despite blocking it, the stalker would make another account to trouble her. She kept blocking the person in question until there were over a hundred accounts. It took all those stalker accounts for her to reach the boiling point upon which she locked her Twitter.

Things, as it seems, are too serious to be taken lightly, instead of blocking, Valkyrae should take legal action against the alleged stalker before things go too out of hand. Stalker is nothing surprising for popular personalities but if one is found, the matter should be taken to the police or some form of law enforcement agency.

Keeping her profile locked can’t be a permanent solution to the problem, given that she is a public figure the stalking should be put to an end immediately because such a platform especially when Twitter is an essential way for her to communicate with her fans.

Fedmyster played a big part in a few of the biggest dramas of the past year; in the aftermath of it, we saw Fed disappear from Twitch and every other social media, however his Twitch schedule hints at a possible comeback.

Fedmyster took a break from streaming after OfflineTV removed him over allegations of sexual misconduct by a fellow streamer Yvonne. The allegations were compelling enough to get him banned from OTV, causing him to disappear off the face of every social media at the time.

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However, it doesn’t end there, months later Fed was found himself in trouble yet again after a document where he describes his long-standing and complicated relationship was inadvertently leaked, naturally causing a series of statement exchanges between the pair.

When Is Fedmyster Coming Back?

Fed’s Twitch at the time of writing says “FEDMYSTER is on vacation and will return in 20 days”. The statement is followed by his stream schedule that indicates the same.

The 20 days gap end on 3rd February 2021, which can possibly be his return date on Twitch. Although all of it is speculated, the stream schedule is the most compelling hint towards his return before he confirms it himself.

Given how he was disgraced out of the streaming industry, the news of his return has yielded mixed reactions from the community. Comeback streams usually pull massive viewership numbers which as it seems won’t be the case upon Fed’s return. It will be interesting to see how Twitch welcomes him back.

Imagine working hard on your Twitch channel and reaching the point when Twitch is supposed to offer you a partnership but they don’t because you fail to meet their age restrictions. British streamer ‘AverageHarry’ is facing a similar situation after Twitch denied him partnership over age restrictions.

What Is the Twitch Partner Program?

“The Twitch Partnership Program is for those who are committed to streaming and are ready to level up from Affiliate. Twitch Partners are creators who stream a variety of content, from games, music, talk shows, art, to just about anything else you can imagine. If you love sharing what you do with a live community and have built up a sizable audience on Twitch or other services” read Twitch’s official blogpost.

The minimum criteria to make partner:

• Complete the Path to Partner achievement to demonstrate large, engaged viewership/following on other services.
• Broadcast content that conforms to our Community Guidelines, Terms of Service and DMCA Guidelines.
• Those who complete Path to Partner should be able to maintain the criteria set forth in the achievement on a consistent basis.

However, the post did mention that these are the “minimum criteria” and that they look for more things in a streamer before they uplift them to Partner status from Affiliate. One of those things that Twitch looks for is the age that AverageHarry lacks.

Furthermore, Twitch has informed AverageHarry about the possibility of vacating his current account as he was 13 at the time of creation which is against their terms. Fast forward two years, he is 15 now which is insufficient for Twitch to let him have his way with the account, rather they asked him to recreate an account and start over which left him in tears as all the effort he put in for the past two years is about to go in vain.

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