Twitch Updated their Sexual Content Policy:

  • Changes: Certain content now allowed with labels
  • Artistic Nudity: Permitted under Sexual Themes Label
  • Game Nudity: Contextual; labels necessary
  • Body Painting: Acceptable with appropriate label
  • Mature Games: Label generally covers content
  • Stream Visibility: Impacted by content labels
  • Twerking, grinding and pole dancing are now allowed without a label.

Via https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1735024184114245689

  • @[email protected]
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    1031 year ago

    I’m surprised how much pearl clutching there is in this thread. This seems like a good thing. It’s all supposed to be clearly labeled, and if people want to watch streams with nudity, what’s wrong with that?

    • @[email protected]
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      861 year ago

      The twitch boob meta always fascinated me. It’s literally trivial to not watch thirst streams if you don’t like thirst streams. But people on the internet get so fucking upset about it, and I assume at least 100% of them consume actual porn.

      • @[email protected]
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        451 year ago

        For me it’s how popular and accessible twitch is for kids.

        I’ve never really used twitch for anything except getting drops for games (160p and muted lol) but every time I see titty streamers getting recommended despite never watching any

        • snooggums
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          431 year ago

          Everything on the internet is easily accessible by kids if the parents aren’t doing any supervision.

          • @[email protected]
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            121 year ago

            It’s not the same, porn you have to search out. They’re already on twitch for other reasons and are far more likely to be suggested/shown more vulgar content like “artistic nudity”.

            • @[email protected]
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              151 year ago

              If they can google search for twitch, they can google search for porn. They already know. I mean, come on, you were 14 once.

              If they cant google search for twitch, then they shouldnt be able to change the channel to boobie streams for the same reason they shouldnt be able to change to any other non-kid-friendly stream. Thats part of being responsible as a parent.

              I dunno, this doesnt seem like that big of a deal.

              • @[email protected]
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                01 year ago

                i kinda agree, but i seen like youtube kids, where kids that don’t know how to search spend the day there, or not actually, twitch never marked for the same kids that youtube kids has counted for, hmmm, idk

          • @[email protected]
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            91 year ago

            This is the double standard I hate so much about violence / porn / swearing.

            Kids are watching ultra violent game streams? No one gives a shit.

            The second a bad word has been said on a stream or a bit of nudity is shown, people are losing their god damn minds.

            • @[email protected]
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              31 year ago

              Short explanation of part of my issue with it:

              There’s a big, important difference between watching violence in video games/movies and watching a cartel execution or someone being run over on LiveLeak.

              There’s also a significant difference between “a bit of nudity”, even contextually appropriate full frontal, and eroticism.

            • @[email protected]
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              -11 year ago

              Kids probably shouldn’t be watching ultra violent games, but that doesn’t mean porn being accessible for minors is not a far more dangerous problem. There is no double standard, because these are two different things. Porn is neurologically addictive. This is an established medical fact. Exposing a minor to more and more sexualized subjects is what groomers do. Interacting with strangers sexually over the internet is not something that should be normalized for children.

        • @[email protected]
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          For me it’s how popular and accessible twitch is for kids.

          You mean, as opposed to the notoriously unpopular and inaccessible PornHub (among hundreds of others)?

          • @[email protected]
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            491 year ago

            If my child is on twitch, I can reasonably assume it’s for game streaming. If my child is on pornhub, I can assume they are watching pornography. I dont like having that line blurred.

          • @[email protected]
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            It’s not the same, how many children are going to pornhub to watch video games and happens to see and click on a recommended stream for actual porn?

            Your false dichotomy does not hold up.

          • @[email protected]
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            261 year ago

            Yep. It’s a lot easier to block Pornhub than it is to block porn on Twitch but leave the rest of Twitch unaffected.

              • @[email protected]
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                61 year ago

                I was thinking more from a parent’s point of view. It’s a lot easier to block a whole website than parts of a website.

        • @[email protected]
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          171 year ago

          Personally, as long as kids are getting access to good sex ed I don’t see any issue with them stumbling across sexualized content online. We all did it at some point in our lives, digital or not. It’s a part of growing up. I also don’t think sexualized content should be seen as more problematic than violent content. If anything it should be less problematic (and to be clear I don’t find either to be an issue personally)

          • @[email protected]
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            261 year ago

            Personally, as long as kids are getting access to good sex ed

            i have bad news for most of the US for you

            • @[email protected]
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              61 year ago

              That’s definitely something to improve, but hiding sex from online spaces is not going to help.

              • @[email protected]
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                41 year ago

                Oh, sure, we probably agree. A distressing amount of people have really bad takes on sex, sex education, gender, history, relationships… a lot of things, really. Conservatives especially have egregiously bad views.

                I remember when I first saw This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and I talked about it with some coworkers. An older woman and a younger woman who sat next to me in the office. Both of them 100% felt that they’d rather their kid watch a movie where people’s heads got blown off than one where someone got head. I don’t remember their exact argument (this was many years ago), but I’m pretty sure it was such an axiomatic belief for them it was difficult to articulate why.

                • @[email protected]
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                  11 year ago

                  Yeah, America really got fucked up by the puritans. That prudishness still runs deep. I’m philosophically very sex positive, but I get it, and I’m not immune to that shock factor either sometimes. I try my best to disregard it.

              • @[email protected]
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                41 year ago

                I’m not sure what you mean. Parents are ideally involved in raising their children, but there’s no guarantee they’ll be involved, good at teaching, teaching anything true, alive, or anything. Public education is important.

          • @[email protected]
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            The women in Twitch use sex and interactive false sexual interest and love to get people to give them money and buy them gifts. In some ways that’s worse for kids than pornhub porn. Do you expect a 15 year old boy to be able to avoid the “stripper really loves me” trap?

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              Then it sounds like your actual problem is with a certain pattern of behavior rather than nudity/sexuality itself. So maybe you address your actual concern rather than something tangentially related.

        • @[email protected]
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          131 year ago

          While porn sites are well protected behind a question. Ultimately it’s up to parents to monitor their kids media consumption.

            • @[email protected]
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              I am not responsible for ridding the world of maladjusted assholes. I simply do not have the energy.

              If there is no other imperative for caring about something beyond “but what about the poorly supervised children?” then that thing is generally going straight to the bottom of my concern list. If the worst thing that poorly supervised children get into is cleavage on twitch, then I’d actually call that a pretty massive win.

            • @[email protected]
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              31 year ago

              How will 14 year olds accidentally seeing a boob on twitch instead of doing what most 14 year olds do by actively searching out porn-esque content going to turn them into a person I dont want to interact with?

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          Yup, I’m not letting my kids on Twitch because of that.

          I hate kiddie accounts, so if I don’t trust my kid to browse a service safely, I ban it. As they gain my trust, I open up the services I allow. For example, I used to have a “no YouTube” rule, now I let my oldest (10yo) to browse on his own, provided he tells me what he wants to watch. If I catch him watching something he knows I don’t approve of, he’ll lose that privilege until he regains that trust.

          Twitch will take a while.

      • @[email protected]
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        281 year ago

        The problem, at least to me, is the wildly inconsistent application of the rules. Plenty of streamers have gotten bans for inappropriate content for far, far less than this, and been told to shove it when they tried to appeal. I can guarantee you nobody would be up in arms over this if twitch just treated it as a free for all, and didn’t care if people streamed tits. The problem is that it isn’t, and lots of people get banned, while the big thirst streamers get given a free pass on everything

        Also, If this goes through, the “banned games” list is going to need some real pruning.

      • @[email protected]
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        191 year ago

        My only problem with it is that it’s always on the homepage under recommended, despite the fact I’ve never watched any streams like that. Even if I tell the site “not interested” it still shows the content. I only get on twitch to watch content for one game and from a small number of creators.

      • @[email protected]
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        -11 year ago

        The thing is, teens with accounts set to 18+ do access twitch. And they are going to be diverted there more and more which can draw viewers away from genuine streamers who are just gaming.

    • @[email protected]
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      361 year ago

      It destroys the brand. The more nudity makes it on the site the more it changes the user base, advertisers change, the whole thing just takes a turn into something completely different

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Gamers mad at women and attractiveness. This is a really hard combo for them.

      Nothing new.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      I don’t think people object to it from a moral standpoint, but more from the perspective that it will overtake the content that they want to see.

    • Herbal Gamer
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      That’s not all; certain dances, such as “twerking, grinding, and pole dancing” are now allowed to stream on Twitch without a label, and broadcasts that are labeled with “Drugs, Intoxication, or Excessive Tobacco Use; Violent and Graphic Depictions; Gambling; and/or Sexual Themes” will no longer be allowed on Twitch’s home page.

      This is what got me: Now you can have tits out and twerking, but no longer smoking?

      Edit: I personally don’t use Twitch nor mind it when nudity becomes more normalised, but as I said in my other comment it’s mostly about weed or just smoking a cigarette while doing something else.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        Makes sense. Normalizing smoking isn’t cool. It’s one thing if it’s in a movie or TV show, but Twitch has the pretense of being real people who can have parasocial relationships with their fans and influence their behavior. Kids don’t need to see or be influenced on that level. At least the nudity or sexuality will be properly labelled.

        • Herbal Gamer
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          31 year ago

          Personally I was thinking about weed; there’s a large community surrounding it and ever since parts of the US started legalising a lot of discussion around it has been popping up.
          For example a stream discussing and reviewing different strains could definitely work.

            • @[email protected]
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              01 year ago

              Doug the pepper man? Because thats one streamer I wouldnt watch get high, his content is too thought heavy and directed and getting intoxicated would derail the hell out of that

              • @[email protected]
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                21 year ago

                Getting Doug With High is a podcast by Doug Benson where he invites other celebrities to hangout and get high with him. It’s pretty entertaining most of the time.

                The first Eric Andre one is really good imo. Eric said he doesn’t usually smoke because he had a bad experience when he was younger, but in the episode he gets super baked and asks a random person in the studio for a hoodie, and then he just spends the rest of the time all cozied up in someone’s sweater. It’s pretty great.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        I don’t think that’s what it’s saying given that “sexual themes” is on this list as well. Seems more like they’re saying “we’re allowing more sexual content if it’s properly labeled, but we’re going to start keeping those labels off the home page, and while we’re at it we’ll take off a bunch of other objectionable content”