this is 2018's "recording is killing the music industry, we left this side of the tape blank so you can help" and I'm hella here for it

https://kotaku.com/streamers-turn-off-ads-to-protest-twitch-prime-dropping-1828503585

Streamers Turn Off Ads To Protest Twitch Prime Dropping Its Ad-Free Perk

Compared to other online ads, Twitch ads are relatively unobtrusive. But they’re still obnoxious as hell. You tune in to watch your favorite streamer, and then the same 10-second ad plays three times in a row. Unfortunately, Twitch announced yesterday that Twitch Prime will no longer offer an ad-free viewing experience.

a wildly successful amazon-owned entity decides it needs to make even more money

shocker

@ShugoWah i hate how right you are. this RULES

@ShugoWah literally the first thing I tweeted when I saw what they were doing

ad block all of my shit please

@ShugoWah i got so pissed when i got the email about this today so it's good to hear streamers are pissed too
@ShugoWah Just Robert Moran being a fucking beast. Nothing unusual there.
@ShugoWah yeah as a small time streamer absolutely everything about that change sucks ass fuck ads
@ShugoWah i scrolled once down and back up again on that article

@ShugoWah
Reminds me of this:

Trent Reznor: Has the price come down?

Crowd: No!

Trent Reznor: Well you know what that means. Steal it. Steal away. Steal, steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealing. Because one way or another these motherfuckers will get it through their head that they're ripping people off and that's not right.

https://www.wired.com/2007/09/trent-reznor-te/

Trent Reznor To Fans: "Steal, Steal and Steal Some More"

Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor had some harsh words for record labels during a concert at Australia’s Hordern Pavilion regarding Universal Music Australia pricing his album at $30 — apparently a lot more than other artists’ music costs there: “Has the price come down? \[crowd: no\] Well you know what that means. Steal it. \[…\]

@ShugoWah lmao at this quote being on kotaku, cause gizmodo media group recently managed to break the comments section if you dont turn adblock off.....
@sky @ShugoWah That sounds like a second improvement of leaving your ad blocker on.