How Anime and Porn Brought a Dead Game Back to Life on Twitch - Video

Folks, Artifact is back, and it’s back in a big way.

Well, not really. It’s still extremely dead, but somehow, it picked up over 13,000 viewers this past weekend, all thanks to the power of porn, anime and memes.

The problem is that it wasn’t all innocuous, and the sudden revival of streaming “Artifact” reveals some glaring holes in Twitch’s policies.

Edited by: Dennis Gonzales (@Tarmanydyn)
Hosted by Daniel Rosen (@Daniel_Rosen)

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Artifact Reveal
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Nymn
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Will Wonka
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