Mixer

Mixer was a streaming service on the Internet.

Overview
When Mixer was originally created, it was not known as Mixer, but as Beam. It was created back in January 2016, and it was later bought out by Microsoft several months later. This was the first streaming service that introduced "Faster Than Light" latency, or FTL, which allowed a low-latency of about 1 second or less. What this means is that if you were to speak on stream and hear yourself, it would be almost instantaneous. In May 2017, the company changed its name to Mixer, bringing along new features like co-streaming with others and a mobile app to allow streaming on the go. It also allowed users who got partnered with Mixer to allow their followers to subscribe to them, allowing many more exclusives on one's channel. In late 2018, Mixer added many new features such as, embers, a premium currency you had to pay for, and special animations you can trigger in the chat. They later also added a leveling system to show how much dedication you have shown to a streamer, allowing even more bonuses. Everything was going great for Mixer until later in July 2020 when they got nuked and died in a tornado, atleast that's what's rumored.

FTL
When designing the streaming protocol for Mixer, the dev team wanted the absolute lowest latency possible. The design they landed on was FTL, which allowed for sub-second delays on Mixer streams. What the general public didn't know, however, was that FTL wasn't just a marketing name; the Mixer team, in their quest for speed, had accidentally stumbled on the first discovered way in the Universe to travel faster than the speed of light.