When a licensed song manages to sneak into a stream or video, it could wreak all kinds of copyright-infringing havoc. This might include fines, bans, and other unwanted attention from the music industry. That's why more and more games are starting to include a streamer mode that removes any licensed music that could lead to a DMCA takedown. They may not always work, but it's a very welcome feature.
Of course, removing music from a game can lead to a bit of unintentional awkwardness. Especially if it's removed from a scene that's entirely focused on a particular song and your main character is stuck rocking out to absolutely nothing.
There's a moment in Life Is Strange: True Colors where the protagonist, Alex Chen, is listening and dancing to some rad tunes with her brother Gabe. Thanks to the game's streamer mode, you don't need to worry about the music in this scene getting you into trouble. The downside to this is that this mode doesn't add copyright-free music or do something to fill in the gaps where the music used to be. All it does is remove the music and leave nothing but awkward silence aside from the foot-stomping sounds of these two characters dancing around like idiots.
While it's not an elegant solution to the problem, it is better than potentially having your channel banned or demonetized over a single song. DMCA strikes are becoming increasingly common and it's making streamer modes more necessary than ever before. Unfortunately, if a developer decides to include a licensed song in a pivotal section of their game, muting or removing the song usually leads to hilarious moments like this.
There have been some attempts at finding a fix to this issue. For example, the SpotifySynchronizer Twitch plugin lets viewers listen to any licensed song included in a game through Spotify so they can still hear the music but the streamer doesn't get into any hot water. Ideas like this are great, but not perfect. It's hard to say if a proper way to resolve this conundrum will ever be figured out since developers will always include music in their games, which means the possibility of DMCA strikes will be always lurking around the corner for any big or small streamer.
Unless of course, the music industry suddenly decides to not be greedy jerks, which doesn't seem very likely.