Twitch’s new boost feature disabled after porn appears on front page

Twitch’s controversial paid promotion, or stream “boost,” feature has been temporarily deactivated after the website’s front page was flooded with streams broadcasting porn.

Twitch streamer TheNoosh22 was among the first to notice a problem on Twitch’s front page when a boosted stream featured a topless woman. With a glaringly obvious “Promoted by the community” tag attached to the pornographic stream, there was no denying how exactly this stream appeared on the front page.