@Felthry Unfortunately this is more Twitch's fault than anything. There was a period of time... a long period... where someone built a bot farm that'd flood a streamer's chat with really awful shit, then report the streamer for not modding well enough.
This went on for MONTHS with no action from Twitch. Their eventual solution was a toggle to require SMS verification of your account before you can talk. The UI to control the setting is awful and Twitch pops up this giant warning that your settings are "not safe" if you have it off.
@trysdyn i'm mostly just frustrated because this is making things difficult for us as part of a bad solution to a problem that shouldn't exist, that only exists because some people are just awful people, and that this is the solution they give feels like they're using it as an excuse to farm more data and it's just, ugh
everything about it is bad
-F