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"honoring" is a bit much. At the time the IRL content wasn't doing well so they looked at what was, it was gaming.

They're doing the exact same thing now. Surviving.

For the sake of it "How about Justin.tv? That sounds nice, doesn't it?" No, that's actually a terrible name for a livestreaming site.

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Huh? They are growing, not surving. It was the same thing back in the day. When we migrated from Ustream.tv to Justin.tv in 2010, gaming became their largest section and continued to grow ever since. So it made sense to spin it off, as the non-gaming content was mostly regarded as clutter and the illegal streams of Simpsons and the like that I mentioned in another comment were issues too.

Not sure why you address that line as the name is obviously not good and the "sounds nice" doesn't refer to any name.

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