Twitch seems to be the only one with this problem. Like they keep playing wackamole with rules?
Where other social media sites just have more vague banning, but at least it doesn't deal with this.
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I think most gaming sites are shit for different reasons.
But I'm gonna need your take so I know what type of person you are.
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Twitch: "We're going to pay you to stream."
Also Twitch: "No, not like that, or that, or that, or that, or that..."
It's pretty well established that people go to twitch to watch people stream video games. There's occasionally game dev on it. But you know what it isn't intended for, porn, of any kind. And there's little kids on the platform, so I'd say it's a pretty good move to keep that crap off their.
Saw some of the sexually explicit stuff get suggested to me yesterday that up until now I didn't even know existed...seriously, a girl in a bathingsuit twirking her ass into the camera and asking people for money to keep doing it.
It's not a cam modeling site, it's not a porn site. If that's what you want to see, there are plenty of other platforms out there for that.
It’s telling that the two comments disagreeing with you are by one person who doesn’t use twitch and another person who hasn’t used it in years.
Needless to say I think you’re totally right. I don’t want to make it a prude platform but I also think treating it like Only Fans isn’t right either.
I thought it was pretty well established that Twitch was like a softcore OnlyFans that caters to lonely gamers seeking parasocial relationships, but that's just my impression as someone who doesn't pay attention or care about this stuff. The few times I've looked at it the sexualized content was obvious and unavoidable.
How? I'm on twitch basically every day watching my friends stream. I follow a hand full of others and never has it been "obvious" that twitch is softcover OnlyFans.
There's a handful of prominent streamers pushing the softcore meta hard but as a whole I agree with you. The people complaining about the children need to understand it's a private company and they can do whatever they want, if parents don't want their kids seeing that stuff then they should moderate them better instead of trying to push the responsibility of raising their kids onto others.
I'm an adult and I don't want to see softcore anything on twitch. That's not what I use twitch for. As for the, you should just watch your kids better argument. Sexualization of anything to children is traumatizing.
The people complaining about the children need to understand it’s a private company and they can do whatever they want
I hate this response. It is so canned, so dismissive and hand wavy, while also being completely incorrect. It’s the kind of useless argument the right likes to parade around when they want to justify a business being cruel or even acting illegally in some cases.
No, companies cannot do literally whatever they want. There are absolutely rules that govern the types of media that can be in certain spaces. There are different TOS’s for different kinds of access to content, different hurdle
and benchmarks that must be met for certain users to access certain content. Twitch cannot do whatever it wants with impunity.
I think there are a lot of valid arguments on both sides of this debate here, and I am also very much against “think of the children.” But no, again, twitch cannot do whatever it wants here. There are different laws in different countries that they have to consider.
Edit: let’s also not forget that I am within my rights to express my disdain for what a company does, regardless if they have the right to do it or not. And to imply it is somehow immoral or otherwise reflective of our (lack of) intelligence to critique a company is patently absurd.
When I say they can do whatever they want, I mean it in the 'they literally could just follow all those rules and regulations to just allow porn on there if they wanted to' sense. There's nothing stopping them from doing it besides money and the fact they're allowing what they currently do means money is winning.
There's nothing cruel or illegal on what's currently going on with twitch but I get what you're trying to say. I'm just tired of people forcing their views on me because of their kids. Mind you, I don't hate kids.
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It's pretty well established that people go to twitch to watch people stream video games
Maybe that was true once, but I'm pretty sure the "Just chatting" category is almost always accounting for a massive chunk of viewership. That being said I stopped watching Twitch regularly a long time ago, so IDK for sure.
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