Have you heard? Maya Higa’s surprise emote, another Sidemen sellout, and TheBurntPeanut rises

Each week, we handpick a selection of stories to give you a snapshot of trends, updates, business moves, and more from around the creator industry. This week, a popular streamer got some surprising news about Twitch’s emotes, the Sidemen made a big announcement related their next charity soccer match, and an anthropomorphic peanut is the hottest thing in the streamer world. Creator commotion Maya Higa had no idea she’d been a Twitch emote for years. Through the 7TV extension, thousands of Twitch channels have enabled an emote featuring Higa’s laughing face, and she only found out about it recently. It’s not the unexpected publicity that seems to be bothering her — it’s the quality of the emote itself. “It’s not even good,” she said. “Is this my claim to fame?” Subscribe to get the latest creator news Subscribe Hasan Piker got banned on Twitch and reinstated (again). The political streamer’s seventh ban was the result of comments he made related to ICE, but he was only offline for a few days until the ban was lifted. If Piker gets to ten Twitch bans and fills out his punch card, does he get the 11th ban for free? The sports report
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