Calls for Twitch to police 'sexual streaming'
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Re: Calls for Twitch to police 'sexual streaming'
#2Twitch already has a flagging system for "mature" content, and they ban anything with actual nudity pretty aggressively. It sounds like this is actually a call to police the use of sex appeal by streamers, which seems like a difficult thing to judge in general and I'm not sure how they could actually achieve such a thing.
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#3Twitch already has a flagging system for "mature" content, and they ban anything with actual nudity pretty aggressively. It sounds like this is actually a call to police the use of sex appeal by streamers, which seems like a difficult thing to judge in general and I'm not sure how they could actually achieve such a thing.
It's probably blowback from American Vandal.
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#4Oh come on, why can't we just have fun? The site already has a "no nudity allowed" policy and a per-stream "mature audiences only" warning screen.
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#5The sex-work scolds have found a new cause.
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#6Oh come on, why can't we just have fun? The site already has a "no nudity allowed" policy and a per-stream "mature audiences only" warning screen.
I think the idea is people who don't have the same sex appeal feel they are finding it hard to compete. Also, they feel it is "changing" the feel of the site.
Not saying I agree, that's what it sounds like to me.
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#7It's interesting to see the timing on when mainstream media runs these things. BBC is picking this up when most of the intensity around the topic was piping up on Reddit over the last couple of months. I just find the lag between when something hits the BBC vs the people directly involved with it fascinating.
The devolution of stream content on Twitch is really is something that needs to be addressed though. Anyone that thinks that Twitch isn't turning in to a soft-core cam girls site can just load the IRL section of Twitch and see for themselves. It takes about a 30 second cursory glance to see the themes.
Re: Calls for Twitch to police 'sexual streaming'
#8Twitch already has a flagging system for "mature" content, and they ban anything with actual nudity pretty aggressively. It sounds like this is actually a call to police the use of sex appeal by streamers, which seems like a difficult thing to judge in general and I'm not sure how they could actually achieve such a thing.
Yeah it gets into the hyper subjective realm of what is acceptable or not. If I sexually identify as a CAS aircraft, will they ban DCS A-10 Simulator as sexual content?
On the other hand, they're a company so they're perfectly allowed to decide where they draw the line and enforce that.
I just hope we don't accidentally cause a regression with women in gaming by accidentally enforcing a dress code that mostly impacts women.
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#9Didn't even have to finish the headline to know it was the UK.
Re: Calls for Twitch to police 'sexual streaming'
#10So I think Twitch actually will ban 'booby streamers' but I don't expect them to do it yet. The problem is that the community Twitch has built wants Twitch to be about games with little bits of other stuff but twitch wants to be a general service streaming site that just happened to start out with games. Sexualized streaming is a great way to branch out into non-game related livestreaming but also hurts the reputation of the site so I think allowing these streams is probably a temporary measure to build up the IRL streaming.