Twitch updates sexual content guidelines amid ‘topless’ meta backlash
Twitch has updated its guidelines on sexual content following mass outrage over a new 'topless' meta that gained popularity on the site.
Twitch updates sexual content guidelines amid ‘topless’ meta backlash::undefined
Where exactly are these topless streams so I can make sure to uh... avoid them... in the future?
If you have an account, just go to one of their channels one time. Twitch will never recommend anything else again.
...Okay, it will sometimes recommend other stuff but you're never gonna be free of "thirst"-related content. Also, https://www.twitch.tv/directory/category/pools-hot-tubs-and-beaches here's the category you want to avoid :P
They usually cover/conceal nipples, so you don't see everything.
In the list of "games", the top item is the "Just Talking" or whatever the category is called. Click that and try various sorting.
Honestly you can probably scroll the front page and find them if they're on, they'll have a ton of viewers.
Open a new browser tab and navigate to Bing. Type "topless streams" into the search bar. Spend a brief moment being disappointed that it seems like there's no topless streams on the internet. Then disable safe search and make sure you're not connected to a Bluetooth speaker or Chromecasting your screen (actually should have done that before the search, but it's too late, everyone knows you're a porn-seeking pervert, so you might as well just reconnect that Bluetooth speaker).
This woman mentioned in the article, Morgpie, has quite a bit of content on Reddit and otherwise if you're looking for some research material. She's got some very high quality educational videos...
Oh no, almost visible tits!? Nono we can't have that, it'll morally bankrupt our audience.
Edit: apparently they're more lenient as long as it is properly tagged. Nice.
No actually they have a more open stance if the stream is properly labeled and just won't promote those labels on their front page
Would you look at that, nice.
My only issue is that kids use the platform a lot and shouldn't be exposed to overly sexualised content when they're just looking for gaming content. Twitch apparently says they'll try to remove it from the front page but stuff inevitably gets though.
My 4-year old nephew was watching YouTube Kids one night when I was babysitting, and some roblox trash was on. Usernames and chat were included on-screen. "I hate N****rs" "gas the Jews" and similar were prominent usernames and chat was full of 4Chan type chat. ¯(ツ)_/¯ All these platforms are unfit for kids.
Aaaaaand the Art category is covered in furry penises and nude little anime girls...
Sure, but you could have a setting which allows sexualised content to be accessed or showed. Or just a popup when entering the stream like it already does with mature streams or whatever they're called. You can have the streams only visible to people logged in, have people put their age on the account when making it (not sure if already a thing) and not show this stuff to people under 18. Yes you can just say you're 18 but in that case the kids do it deliberately and won't just stumble upon it. Have the parents do an underage account for them. Lots of options, and yes, the parents do have responsibility as well.
Can you imagine the trauma it would cause if a child were to inadvertently see a nipple? Unthinkably horrible.
Kids shouldn't be on the internet unsupervised, that's the parents' responsibility. The internet shouldn't have to cater to a bunch of brats that shouldn't be on these platforms in the first place, the internet was never meant for children.
its annoying
don't watch it then?
Glad I'm not on twitch, or twitter, or instagram or TikTok...but what a time to be alive for camgirls and camboys and everything in between or outside of that.
Why are people so bothered by bare skin?
I'd say, Twitch is ever increasingly less and less about games and more and more is just becoming PornHub. So, it's ripe for child exploitation (teenagers) and potentially could scare away advertisers.
Just Chatting has been the dominant category for a very long time. Justin.tv was used for the creator to stream his daily life. This isn't anything new.
Because American puritanical culture has conditioned people to see it as taboo... it's a lot different in the rest of the world.
It's funny how defederating a lemmy instance based on ideological differences is community guidlines this, content moderation that, but twitch enforcing a moderation policy is a puritanical america problem. :D
There's nothing wrong with porn, but there are plenty of good, existing places to do it. This is just world politics vs. anime titties all over again.
Are you sure that seeing this on the front page of the art category is not taboo? https://i.imgur.com/nSrEqvD.png
Nah I wouldn't say it is different in the rest of the world. Yes, open minded people everywhere don't get bothered by bare skin in a lot of situations, but there are also a lot of people that perceive it as a taboo. Besides that, a lot of people that okay with bare skin on many contexts, there are still many of them that don't expect or want a bare skin to be a factor in a lot of others, varying by individuals.
For example, I wouldn't mind bare skin and varying degrees of intimacy in a lot of entertainment media, but still I would expect this to me a non-factor in the indicator of quality in most of them. For twitch, a platform that has come about and widely known as a gaming streaming site, I would expect the key performance indicators of content creators to be their gaming skills and gaming related entertainment value, not their bare skin. Alas all of us know that bare skin would definitely be a factor in the KPI of content creators because also sex sells, but I'm not going to Twitch to purchase sex.
Not a surprise. There were boobs being fully exposed and no effort to cover them.
I can pretty much guarantee that these streamers were all wearing some kind of strapless bra, halter, or pasties just out of view of the camera. Way safer than risking a nip slip resulting in a permaban
No one has to watch the channels they don't want to watch. Change the channel if you don't like it. That's why they're called channels.
They’re constantly popping up on the front page
They do say they’re changing that, so we’ll see if it goes away
Twitch is stripchat, just simply as that. Any female model can just do live stream, promote their +18 Links, and be half naked 24/7 just to get donates and subs. And yes for most people this is fine, cause who cares if a kid will access hot tubs for example. Who cares if Twitch is promoting those +18 models, who cares? None, none, not even Twitch.
As we community we should hold guidelines, but guess what ? We can't.
I'm on Twitch almost since it's begging, Twitch was supposed to be SWF platform.
As long as they continue to reap their cut, they'll gladly devolve into purple Chaturbate. Their only guiding principal is revenue.
Were you on Justin.TV?
