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Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams

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Re: Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams

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Post by throwkeep »

jedberg wrote: post #36

I never used Twitch before the pandemic -- watching people play games was never really my thing. But then I discovered the entire second use of Twitch, streaming music. Since March 2020, it's been possible to find someone streaming music at pretty much any time of day. One day I was watching around 2am Pacific time, and the stream ended. I was looking for another one when I saw someone in the music category with 13,0…

It reminds me of World of Warcraft, where guys give female avatars their items and gold for nothing.

Re: Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams

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Post by msbarnett »

robbrown451 wrote: post #29
didibus wrote: post #11

> Sexually suggestive content–and where to draw the line–is an area that is particularly complex to assess, as sexual suggestiveness is a spectrum that involves some degree of personal interpretation of where the line falls This is just in general why I have an issue with prudeness in our society. I have no idea where prudeness comes from, is it innate to some people? Is it a taught trait? But it seems to cause so mu…

Probably it comes from the fact that humans are so naturally attracted to things sexual in nature, that without controls the whole world would look like the seediest red light district you can imagine. With everyone competing to be more and more extreme to get attention.

citation needed

Re: Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams

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Post by meheleventyone »

nickysielicki wrote: post #43

These streams are closer to pornography than most people realize. There's a reason that these streams get so much attention: 14 year old young men love watching video games, so they go to sites where they can watch video games. If you start serving softcore pornography on the same website, well gee wiz, who could have guessed that it would be pretty lucrative? You don't have to be a prude to have a problem with this.…

Given the sheer amounts of money being flung at streamers of all stripes by their audience directly I doubt the majority of the audience is 14!

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Post by fancifalmanima »

vorpalhex wrote: post #65
nickysielicki wrote: post #43

These streams are closer to pornography than most people realize. There's a reason that these streams get so much attention: 14 year old young men love watching video games, so they go to sites where they can watch video games. If you start serving softcore pornography on the same website, well gee wiz, who could have guessed that it would be pretty lucrative? You don't have to be a prude to have a problem with this.…

If your kid is on the internet, it's on you to manage that. Full stop.

Sure, and it's reasonable for parents to express to twitch that if they don't actively control sexualized content (or provide parental controls), that they will lose the eyes of their child. It's reasonable for advertisers to do the same. Unless your concept of that is control the mouse and keyboard for the child at all moments, what's the issue?

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Post by [deleted] »

vorpalhex wrote: post #65
nickysielicki wrote: post #43

These streams are closer to pornography than most people realize. There's a reason that these streams get so much attention: 14 year old young men love watching video games, so they go to sites where they can watch video games. If you start serving softcore pornography on the same website, well gee wiz, who could have guessed that it would be pretty lucrative? You don't have to be a prude to have a problem with this.…

If your kid is on the internet, it's on you to manage that. Full stop.

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Re: Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams

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Post by ZephyrBlu »

nickysielicki wrote: post #43

These streams are closer to pornography than most people realize. There's a reason that these streams get so much attention: 14 year old young men love watching video games, so they go to sites where they can watch video games. If you start serving softcore pornography on the same website, well gee wiz, who could have guessed that it would be pretty lucrative? You don't have to be a prude to have a problem with this.…

Twitch has no spine. If it was up to Amazon they'd probably ban it though.

Re: Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams

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Post by KapKap55 »

Manuel_D wrote: post #46

I think there's a significant amount of nuance in this situation. On the one hand, I don't object to people steaming and monetizing suggestive (or even explicit) content. These content creators should be able to produce and monetize this content without stigma. On the other hand, I do think the juxtaposition of this content with the rest of Twitch content is problematic. I think putting this content in the same categ…

Twitch does not see it as a problem. Advertisers (the actual important group in this discussion) and the gaming side of the Twitch community do care, for different reasons.

This situation has been ongoing for awhile with individuals pushing the boundary of sexual content, but this response from Twitch only occurred after a partner who creates this type of content pissed off Twitch's advertisers.

Re: Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams

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Post by logicslave »

My real question is all the young men that will have to marry all these women exposing themselves online for money. Three times in the past week I drove by a car where a girl put her venmo on the window. On dating apps its now common for girls to have a venmo in their profile. This culture is far more widespread than just twitch.

Re: Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams

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Post by xboxnolifes »

vorpalhex wrote: post #65
nickysielicki wrote: post #43

These streams are closer to pornography than most people realize. There's a reason that these streams get so much attention: 14 year old young men love watching video games, so they go to sites where they can watch video games. If you start serving softcore pornography on the same website, well gee wiz, who could have guessed that it would be pretty lucrative? You don't have to be a prude to have a problem with this.…

If your kid is on the internet, it's on you to manage that. Full stop.

Becomes hard to manage when soft-core porn is allowed to co-mingle with "safe" content without the ability to filter out.

Re: Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams

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Post by Semaphor »

vorpalhex wrote: post #56
Semaphor wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

every streamer? Hard disagree, I see feet commonly and never never even heard of this.

I've seen multiple streamers, especially women, who are playing games or normal twitch things and end up modifying their behavior because of fear of this rule. A whole bunch of twitch streamers are wearing slippers in case their feet end up on camera for a second. The whole rule started because people were monetizing feet content which obviously leans lewd, but the poor rule targeting has ended up with all kinds of w…

I watch an aussie food streamer, she's always barefoot in summer. She's been streaming for around 3 years, the only problems she had were related to excessive swearing. Not even spanking her partner was a problem.
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