Earlier today Alex Hutchinson, creative director at Typhoon Studios (bought by Google last year to make Stadia games), made a tweet suggesting that Twitch and YouTube users should be “paying the developers and publishers” of the games they stream.
The real truth is the streamers should be paying the developers and publishers of the games they stream. They should be buying a license like any real business and paying for the content they use.
— Alex Hutchinson (@BangBangClick) October 22, 2020
It blew up, and the reaction went about as well as you’d expect.
https://twitter.com/embed/status/1319345186548441088
It’s a Very Bad Tweet, and he was rightly roasted for it. What’s funny here, beyond the replies, is that the tweet was so bad Google had to issue a statement disowning it.
In a statement issued to 9to5Google, a company rep said, “The recent tweets by Alex Hutchinson, creative director at the Montreal Studio of Stadia Games and Entertainment, do not reflect those of Stadia, YouTube or Google.”
Shortly afterwards, YouTube Gaming’s Ryan Watt also tweeted this:
https://twitter.com/embed/status/1319378835125628928
Remember: if in doubt, never tweet
