Twitch updates sexual content policy

[Vode]

I still don‘t understand why it’s totally fine to let kids play/watch games where sticking a knife in somebody‘s neck leads to a medal popping up, yet people flip their shit when a female nipple is on screen.

 

As with most content it should be parents responsible…

[wanderingfool2]

19 hours ago, Vode said:

I still don‘t understand why it’s totally fine to let kids play/watch games where sticking a knife in somebody‘s neck leads to a medal popping up, yet people flip their shit when a female nipple is on screen.

 

As with most content it should be parents responsible…

There is a difference in terms of sexual content vs violent content.  Now a closer comparative I think would be gambling.

 

From very early on most kids can tell the difference between a fantasy game/violent game vs reality.  As a whole it won't shift anything internally in the person (although it might increase violence MAYBE, the fact is most will still easily separate it from reality...especially when they are the ones watching they don't necessarily rage).  It could make a small amount of issues but on a whole when you watch someone playing a violent video game it doesn't really create an issue.

 

Now in terms of sexualized content, a lot of adolescence are full of hormones and don't necessarily think about things.  It's why some of the sexual content creators get very aggressive stalkers, and why you constantly hear stories of teens to even adults spending all what they have.  It's also why you have male boys being the largest category of sexual blackmail...because if a creator or even someone tells them "I'll do [xyz sexual content] if you send pictures"; the male mind at a young age will not think things through, but just do it.

 

The issue with "parents responsibility" is that you can't babysit your kids 100% of the time on something like Twitch, and there is a massive issue where they can simply click the art category without even any other prompts see 18+ rated content in the thumbnails.  There literally was hentai, furry, and AI generated stuff all over it.

 

As a whole, Twitch should actually do additional things to prevent such content from showing up in thumbnails.

 

 

[Quackers101]

between violence and sexual content, there is a line.
hard to know where that line is for everyone with both contents, and it gets worse if those two get mixed.
And yes, we dont know how quickly and realistic games/media can get with this.

[Bitter]

On 12/18/2023 at 7:46 PM, Vode said:

I still don‘t understand why it’s totally fine to let kids play/watch games where sticking a knife in somebody‘s neck leads to a medal popping up, yet people flip their shit when a female nipple is on screen.

 

As with most content it should be parents responsible…

I had both and I'm fine. Hell I saw much much worse than that and I only have mild PTSD from watching that soldier get beheaded.

[fulminemizzega]

I do not understand why someone would prefer to browse twitch for partially or poorly censored porn content instead of just going to another website and enjoy the real deal. I understand what Luke and Linus said during WAN show about the "least amount of friction" principle for website viewers, but this would apply if the content had been the same. Being equally free, why watch the "worse" version? I instead see creators getting more eyeballs, advertising themselves and the platforms where the content they make is completely fine and allowed. So I guess... either allow everything to try to steal traffic from porn websites, or make rules stricter (and enforce them), I'm not seeing the point of this half-way compromise. What do you think?

[wanderingfool2]

1 hour ago, fulminemizzega said:

I do not understand why someone would prefer to browse twitch for partially or poorly censored porn content instead of just going to another website and enjoy the real deal. I understand what Luke and Linus said during WAN show about the "least amount of friction" principle for website viewers, but this would apply if the content had been the same. Being equally free, why watch the "worse" version? I instead see creators getting more eyeballs, advertising themselves and the platforms where the content they make is completely fine and allowed. So I guess... either allow everything to try to steal traffic from porn websites, or make rules stricter (and enforce them), I'm not seeing the point of this half-way compromise. What do you think?

The thing is there isn't any one specific reason, but a bunch of little ones that all add up.

 

I think the biggest reason is that you get people who get attached to a particular streamer and it is just exasperated by sexuality.  As one twitch streamer said, if you catch your partner watching porn it's not bad, but to see then watching a sexual streamer isn't good.  Simply because it's a lot more "attainable" or that there is more of an interaction with the person.  So in that sense it gives you a more closer feeling than looking at similar content.

 

There is also a certain amount of control aspect that also comes to that, where you have someone who would be so happy that there comment was read etc.  (Sense of community)

 

Now other aspects can include, ease of hiding it.  (Parents are more likely to allow their children on Twitch and it's easier to switch between and not look suspicious).

Ease of evading parental locks, again because Twitch isn't included in lists of websites to be blocked