WOKE Network
A digital collective amplifying voices that go unheard — direct, unfiltered, live views from people on the ground, as events unfold.
WOKE Network is a digital collective with one belief: the more perspectives you have as events occur, the better your decisions. So it gives people direct, unfiltered access to live views from others on the ground.
Born in May 2020 during the George Floyd protests, WOKE grew into a crowdsourced network of on-the-ground streamers and a curated live broadcast — drawing millions of views and archiving tens of thousands of streams. It documented major events across the spectrum, from the 2020 uprisings to the January 6th Capitol attack — unfiltered, as they happened.
A streamer network + an open stack
WOKE is a network of independent streamers and a curated live broadcast. Streamwall composes their feeds into a live grid through collaborative curation; Streamdelay adds a broadcast delay to censor gore and personal information and protect people on the ground; and Anchor — powered by Matrix — is the community viewer at woke.net.
The curated stream airs on woke.net and out to platforms like Twitch (twitch.tv/woke) and YouTube (youtube.com/staywoke), reaching audiences far beyond any single feed — on open protocols, with no corporate infrastructure.
What it does
- A network of independent on-the-ground streamers — submit a stream, get featured
- Realtime collaborative curation into one live grid
- Broadcast delay to censor gore and protect people on the ground
- Encrypted Matrix community chat, viewer count, and announcements
- Broadcasts on woke.net and out to Twitch (twitch.tv/woke) and YouTube (youtube.com/staywoke)
- Archived tens of thousands of streams — a historic record of 2020–2021
- Powered by free, open-source tools (Anchor, Streamwall, Streamdelay)
How people watched history unfold
“The Twitch channel Woke collects lots of different livestreams into a single feed … letting viewers watch many different streams.” — Vox, on following January 6th
By the January 6th Capitol attack, hundreds of thousands were following events through WOKE’s feed. Its work has been covered by The New York Times, WIRED, VICE, Vox, and PC Gamer.
Built on our open tools
WOKE is powered by Streamwall (curation), Streamdelay (broadcast-delay redaction), and Anchor (the viewer site).