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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

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[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 204 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

Just become a soft-core porn site at this point, Twitch.

🤔 In away they did that already with the new rules.

[–] Dirk_Darkly@sh.itjust.works 115 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

It's hard to do that officially when a big chunk of users are minors. Neither Twitch nor the streamers of this content want to admit that they make money serving softcore porn to kids. Cause that'd be weird.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

That’s right. Doing it is one thing but admitting what you’re doing? Too far

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[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 68 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 36 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Uglyhead@lemmy.world 142 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Amazon doing their own OnlyFans for minors. Who woulda thunk it.

[–] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I remember being a minor before twitch. Watching porn on the internet wasn’t the task you’d think it was without twitch.

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[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Will some streamers link their OnlyFans on Twitch with the help of third party apps, like Linktree. So they're half way there.

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[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 130 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] RagingInside@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's the Infinite growth model for you.

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[–] Obonga@feddit.de 109 points 9 months ago (44 children)

People in this thread really pretending they have kids in order to get upset about implied nudity. It does not get more american does it? Some chick showing lots of boobie sure seems to be the same like a girl getting banged by big dick to many here.

Also if you actually think that some nudity will wreck your kid but watching gta does not i am not sure why anyone bothers arguing with you.

[–] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 55 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Manipulative, interactive sex workers are not the same as “nudity”.

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[–] netwren@lemmy.world 109 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Can somebody please just link the boobs

[–] picnicolas@slrpnk.net 47 points 9 months ago (1 children)

She was actually fully clothed!

If you want to see her porn: https://www.pornhub.com/gif/36941951

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[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 102 points 9 months ago (22 children)

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?

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 81 points 9 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 46 points 9 months ago (24 children)

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

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[–] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 28 points 9 months 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.

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[–] qwertyWarlord@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 100 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I wonder how many non-nsfw streamers are rejoicing because they no longer have to be paranoid about modded games and nudity. Prior to twitch relaxing rules regarding nudity, you could get banned for a split second of nudity in a modded game, and official nudity/sex scenes in M-rated games were playing with fire (technically allowed, but up to an admin's discretion if you were trying to "stream porn" or just playing the game as intended). At least I'm assuming these new rules will include further relaxing the game content rules. It wouldn't make sense to allow full "artistic nudity" if you're still banning streamers because of a few frames of modded tiddy.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 45 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The term for non-NSFW is SFW.

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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 86 points 9 months ago (26 children)

The only thing that really bothers me is that the porn get shoved on the front page.

I wanna open Twitch on my living room TV to watch SC2 and tiveux something is painting her tits on my screen already.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

From what I understand, this change will disallow any stream with these tags showing up on the front page. Though, I believe this will still be at the top of the "just chatting" category, so really it's the same problem.

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[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 78 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Twitch in 2 weeks : video games? Where?

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I mean hot tub streams already exist.

Twitch hasn’t been a “games only” site in a long time.

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 9 months ago (28 children)

Yall know there's free porn on the internet right?

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think a large part of it is the parasocial aspect. People get to know streamers (or at least, the streamer’s persona) and form attachments to them over time. The same way someone wants to see how their favorite character’s arc plays out in a show, people want to watch streamers because they feel a personal connection to them.

Even though that connection is almost certainly one-sided, (except maybe for smaller streamers who actually interact with all of their viewers on a regular basis,) it doesn’t stop the viewers from forming those emotional connections. And that somehow makes them more “real” than some random piece of ass on pornhub.

I think a lot of it stems from loneliness, and wanting a personal connection. Pornhub is great for porn, but it’s undeniably commercialized porn. Lots of people will likely end up viewing nude twitch streams the same way they’d view nudes from a significant other. Even if the quality isn’t as good as pornhub, it may be considered more desirable simply because the viewers feel like they know the person.

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[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 66 points 9 months ago

Yea, sure, Twitch

They were just tired of fielding questions of why the camgirls were exempt from the rules everyone else was following. Now it's because it's "artistic".

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 51 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So if I paint my cock I'm good, right?

[–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 44 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 50 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Viral topless "meta"??? I haven't heard about any topless meta. What have I been missing? The article only references a single instance in which a streamer got banned, and that hardly makes a meta. What has the Twitch streamer community response been?

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 29 points 9 months ago (3 children)

there is a lot of afaik mostly female streamers, where the game content is secondary to them always being dressed and acting sexualized.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A quarter of the way into the 21st century and we're still not sure if a website can be profitable if there's boobs.

This timeline is dumb as hell.

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[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Finally Jerma can show nipples and toes on stream

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[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago

What a time to be a cam girl

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 39 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Do they plan to rename Twitch to Jerk?

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[–] DingoBilly@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago

Nice. The porn streaming wars have begun.

[–] Starkstruck@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Already furries are live streaming drawing giant cocks lmao

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[–] art@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago (5 children)

These comments are wild and mostly sexist as fuck.

If you have kids and you give them complete unfettered access to the web I'm sure they have seen more than a boob. If that bothers you perhaps try being a parent. Maybe getting involved with your child's online activity. Maybe don't use the Internet as a fucking babysitter.

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[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 29 points 9 months ago

I'm just happy they will now allow some games that weren't allowed for sexual themes before.

[–] BurningnnTree@lemmy.one 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm confused, what does "meta" mean in this context?

[–] hakobo@lemmy.world 83 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

It basically means trend. It's sorta evolved from the concept of "metagaming" where you're not just playing the game, you're gaming the game. People now use "the meta" to refer to the collection of viable strategies for a game, and "the current meta" to refer to what is popular at this moment. This could be types of decks in a card game, character builds in an MMO or a MOBA, or other things like that. Presumably, for twitch, "the meta" is referring to not strategies of playing games, but strategies of gaming twitch. In other words, strategies to maximize viewership and income, and specifically, what is working at any given time.

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[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Other policies that were once prohibited and are now allowed with a label include “fictionalized …fully exposed female-presenting breasts and/or genitals or buttocks regardless of gender,” “body writing on female-presenting breasts and/or buttocks regardless of gender,” and “erotic dances that involve disrobing or disrobing gestures, such as strip teases.”

They're really going all in on this

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[–] FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

They might as well just rebrand into a cam girl site at this point.

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