A Black Twitch streamer says he got thousands more views when he changed his avatar to a cartoon white man

• A Twitch streamer changed his avatar to a white man and received three times his usual views.
• Zach, or Just_Relax_Kid, is Black, and theorized that pretending to be white meant higher views.
• "Is this what it feels like to have privilege on Twitch?" he asked.

A Twitch streamer, who is Black, changed his avatar to a white man, and immediately saw a major bump in views.

Just_Relax_Kid, whose name is Zach, has been a Twitch creator for about nine years, and has 77,000 followers on his channel where he normally streams gaming content.