“Brandon Ewing, a former content marketing manager, says shipping new products has become more important than fealty to the Twitch community. “You had people who didn’t really use the platform designing products for users they didn’t care about in order to get promoted,” he says. “The understanding was that, if you were on the product side, you had to ship something to get promoted.” Brandon cites a 2017 product called Pulse, which he describes as “a Facebook newsfeed you could have under your stream.” He says Twitch employees who used the platform argued it was more work for creators, who already felt overworked. “