Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers | Twitch confirmed its policy banning nudity was sexist.::Twitch confirmed its policy banning nudity was sexist.

  • RabbePompano@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Why is twitch becoming a cam soft porn site? It was supposed to be about gaming. I just want to watch people play games.

    • graymess@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      You’re in luck! There are millions of people playing games on Twitch. Who knew?

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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      11 months ago

      Well, you see, it turned out that people are far more willing to fork over money when they get to see boobs instead of noobs.

    • Xanis@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      goes on Twitch

      finds game

      watches someone play it

      At some point in there I completely ignored all the discount OnlyFans over on IRL and Just Chatting tags.

      That said: An opt-in with specific categories would halt a lot of the people complaining. Been awhile since I’ve dug into websites design, though thay shouldn’t be too difficult to implement, especially as they already have tags.

      • slumberlust@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        There’s a lot of good content under the umbrella of. Just chatting. From scam baiters to glassblowers and musicians, all trying to do their best to attract viewers.

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      11 months ago

      Your comment insinuates that you have trouble finding gamers on the platform, as if there’s a finite limit on creator count and the gamers are getting pushed out by non-gaming creators, which is obviously not the case.

      Is it a matter of going to Twitch for games but then getting roped in by the porn instead? If so, that’s pretty funny tbh.

      • RabbePompano@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        I don’t use twitch anymore. And porn doesn’t need to be everywhere. There’s a place for it. There’s nothing wrong with specific platforms. I wouldn’t want a restaurant that sold porn in the back rooms either.

      • BURN@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        It’s mostly that the front page is increasingly being titty streamers, which really isn’t a problem, but isn’t super fun to land on every day.

        It’s also heavily pushed in recommendations if other viewers of a stream you’re watching are regular watchers (ex. I’m watching shroud, but a ton of shrouds viewers also watch titty streamers, so I must want to as well)

        Honestly it’s just more annoying than anything else. There’s no viewership loss implications for streamers, despite what some scream about.

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      It hasn’t been strictly gaming for many years,

      What is interesting is if you don’t click on or watch those streams Twitch doesn’t recommend them to you.

      A lot of the complaining is often just an unaware self report which is kinda funny.

      • Yttra@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        No, they’ll definitely still show on the front page if under Just Chatting, even if you log out, open a private window, or use a different computer altogether. It’s basically random, as far as I can tell, or just showing popular streams (or both).

        • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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          11 months ago

          Sure, but you should be aware that logging out, using a private window, or a different computer are all sure fire ways to ensure it acts as close to randomly or popular as possible.

          The 18+ streams shouldn’t be freely advertised until the user has identified themselves as 18+ at any rate.