A new and detailed report by Bloomberg has highlighted the numbers of children who stream on Twitch, and the number of accounts linked to adult predators who follow and interact with them.
Research includes various examples of children being asked by adult users to engage in explicit or inappropriate activities and perform dances or “dares” while live-streaming. After said streams have ended, the recordings are often viewed by hundreds of other accounts – far more than expected for small channels their size.
The report suggests this is due to “hundreds” of accounts believed to be used by predators, which have collated follower lists each with “more than 1000 kids on their following lists”.
