“I thought that I would get some creepy comments, because it’s Twitch,” she told Kotaku. In light of all the furore, however, she feels like she can’t just stay quiet.
Speaking to Kotaku on the phone late last week, Kent described herself as “not really a huge political movement type of a person.” Nor, she said, is she somebody who regularly feeds her daughter on stream, typically opting to instead stream at night, when Margaux is asleep. “Where was the outrage when Twitch streamed the Mister Rogers’ Neighbourhood episode about breastfeeding on the front page?” she asked. (Twitch has yet to respond to a request for comment.) Kent reposted the clip on Twitter and discussed its removal, writing that “we obviously have a long way to go in the fight to normalise breastfeeding” and noting that an episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighbourhood once featured on Twitch’s front page focused on breastfeeding much more than her own stream. Kent says that Twitch took the clip down that day. It was not well-received by many of the posters on Livestreamfail, some of whom jumped to accuse breastfeeding streamers of “using their children as an excuse to flash tit” and “make money” from exposing their bodies. The clip’s poster, a fellow parent and fitness streamer who goes by the handle TominationTime, had good intentions, titling his post “Normalising Breastfeeding On Twitch.” In this clip, Kent was casually breastfeeding her baby, calling no attention to the act itself. On the same day as the stream in question, another clip in which Kent and her friend discussed a Sports Illustrated modelling audition got posted to the Twitch clip repository (and drama crockpot) Livestreamfail. Now she’s run into another complication: During a stream last week, she decided to breastfeed Margaux while chatting with a friend. Twitch doesn’t offer any form of maternity leave, so she just had to take the hit to her bank account and audience. Streamer, YouTuber, and model Heather “ HeatheredEffect” Kent took three months off after her daughter Margaux was born last year.
As independent contractors, parents have to deal with inconsistent work hours, unreliable pay, a lack of healthcare and a general lack of safety nets should anything go wrong. When a Twitch streamer breastfed her baby on stream last week, clips of the moment ended up getting removed from Twitch, and it sparked a debate about whether or not the practice violates Twitch’s terms of service, with some arguing that breastfeeding constitutes “sexual” content.īeing a parent on Twitch isn’t easy.
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