I'm just feeling so burnt out lately. More than I have in my almost 6 years at Twitch. While all the negativity and criticisms on the timeline are directed at Twitch, it's really hard sometimes to not let it personally affect me.
I love this community so damn much and I love the partners I've had the pleasure of either working with directly or met once at PAX 5 years ago. When I scroll and every tweet is something negative it just makes me so sad. I wish I could do more somehow. I want it to change.
And it especially hurts when some cool stuff that we work really fucking hard on isn't allowed to be celebrated even a little and is just turned back into negativity is crushing. idk what the outcome of this little thread is per say but I felt the need to get it off my chest.
This year sucks. Thanks to those that have Pog'd this year or tried to make this year brighter, those little moments are truly special and needed in this cesspool of a year. I wish we could do that more. Celebrate each other and accomplishments instead of tearing things down.
If you'd like to share some positive moments this year I'd love to see you shout out some creators or friends that have celebrated major accomplishments or cool moments. Use this to amplify them, please. We all could use a little light.
I'm actually crying now at some of these replies. Just feels like things were bottled up until this moment or something. Thanks for all the affirmation and words of encouragement.