Toxicity in Twitch Chats: An LLM-Based Analysis Across Gaming Communities

In three linesAnalysis of 20 million Twitch chat messages (4,452 streams, 7 genres) using LLM zero-shot classification. 2.4% of messages classified as toxic per Twitch taxonomy (harassment, discrimination, sexual content, profanity). F1=94.5% on TextDetox. MOBA games show 3.2% toxicity, sports games 2%. Significant within-genre variation reveals game-specific community norms.

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