Twitch updates sexual content guidelines amid ‘topless’ meta backlash::undefined
Where exactly are these topless streams so I can make sure to uh… avoid them… in the future?
If you have an account, just go to one of their channels one time. Twitch will never recommend anything else again.
…Okay, it will sometimes recommend other stuff but you’re never gonna be free of “thirst”-related content. Also, https://www.twitch.tv/directory/category/pools-hot-tubs-and-beaches here’s the category you want to avoid :P
Open a new browser tab and navigate to Bing. Type “topless streams” into the search bar. Spend a brief moment being disappointed that it seems like there’s no topless streams on the internet. Then disable safe search and make sure you’re not connected to a Bluetooth speaker or Chromecasting your screen (actually should have done that before the search, but it’s too late, everyone knows you’re a porn-seeking pervert, so you might as well just reconnect that Bluetooth speaker).
Oh no, almost visible tits!? Nono we can’t have that, it’ll morally bankrupt our audience.
Edit: apparently they’re more lenient as long as it is properly tagged. Nice.
No actually they have a more open stance if the stream is properly labeled and just won’t promote those labels on their front page
My only issue is that kids use the platform a lot and shouldn’t be exposed to overly sexualised content when they’re just looking for gaming content. Twitch apparently says they’ll try to remove it from the front page but stuff inevitably gets though.
You’re worried about kids seeing a nipple while they watch a streamer turn their enemy into a bloody mess. If we can accept kids seeing constant violence in their media, I really don’t think nudity is a big deal. We have our priorities all messed up.
I typed out a multiple paragraph response to this and really it boiled down to a couple sentences so I’ll just post them instead. It’s about reputation, twitch doesn’t want to be known as a soft core porn site and if a parent sees a boob then it could impact whether they let their teenager use the site (which to be honest is there most active user base). It’s not about having priorities straight wrt sex vs violence, it’s just maximizing profit.
What happened to good parenting being a valid solution to a problem like that?
Kids will be kids. Good parenting makes a big difference but kids will end up seeing and seeking these things at some point.
Good parenting in the age of streaming platforms and social media is a frigging minefield. I’m not saying it should be easy, but it has entirely new challenges that didn’t exist for all of humanity before the internet. You can’t even ban your kids from the platforms to solve the problem because schools depend on YouTube for instruction, and work is done on Chromebooks that parents usually have no admin control over.
Again, not saying parents get a free pass, but the challenges are evident.
Good parenting is not letting your children using twitch. Let’s be honest, the whole web is degenerate. You either have to curate absolutely every piece of content your child consumes or have to give them the skills to identify and turn off in appropriate content (which isn’t easy either)
My 4-year old nephew was watching YouTube Kids one night when I was babysitting, and some roblox trash was on. Usernames and chat were included on-screen. “I hate N****rs” “gas the Jews” and similar were prominent usernames and chat was full of 4Chan type chat. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ All these platforms are unfit for kids.
Sure, but you could have a setting which allows sexualised content to be accessed or showed. Or just a popup when entering the stream like it already does with mature streams or whatever they’re called. You can have the streams only visible to people logged in, have people put their age on the account when making it (not sure if already a thing) and not show this stuff to people under 18. Yes you can just say you’re 18 but in that case the kids do it deliberately and won’t just stumble upon it. Have the parents do an underage account for them. Lots of options, and yes, the parents do have responsibility as well.
I talk constantly with my kids and they’re preteen and already having sex talks. Maybe more parents need to stop being lazy shits?
Unfortunately, most parents are not tech savvy and don’t understand Twitch or how kids use the internet at all. On the face of it to most parents it just looks like a gaming thing. To these people the internet is basically platforms like Facebook on their phones. When they eventually hopefully catch little Johnny watching furry penises on Twitch it’s already too late and a lot of parents lack even the parenting skills to deal with that appropriately. Sadly, it doesn’t take much intelligence to procreate.
Personally, I’ve just blocked Twitch outright on my firewall with this change in policy for my kids and continue to monitor what they do as always. But fortunately unlike the majority of parents I actually know how to deal with it either way.
Glad I’m not on twitch, or twitter, or instagram or TikTok…but what a time to be alive for camgirls and camboys and everything in between or outside of that.
Why are people so bothered by bare skin?
Because everyone is trying to use sexy/sexuality to sell their crap and I’m absolutely tired of it.
One thing is wrong is that this site accumulated alot of children auditory with fortnite and Minecraft streams and then allowed nudity
I’d say, Twitch is ever increasingly less and less about games and more and more is just becoming PornHub. So, it’s ripe for child exploitation (teenagers) and potentially could scare away advertisers.
Because American puritanical culture has conditioned people to see it as taboo… it’s a lot different in the rest of the world.
It’s funny how defederating a lemmy instance based on ideological differences is community guidlines this, content moderation that, but twitch enforcing a moderation policy is a puritanical america problem. :D
There’s nothing wrong with porn, but there are plenty of good, existing places to do it. This is just world politics vs. anime titties all over again.
Are you sure that seeing this on the front page of the art category is not taboo? https://i.imgur.com/nSrEqvD.png
Nah I wouldn’t say it is different in the rest of the world. Yes, open minded people everywhere don’t get bothered by bare skin in a lot of situations, but there are also a lot of people that perceive it as a taboo. Besides that, a lot of people that okay with bare skin on many contexts, there are still many of them that don’t expect or want a bare skin to be a factor in a lot of others, varying by individuals.
For example, I wouldn’t mind bare skin and varying degrees of intimacy in a lot of entertainment media, but still I would expect this to me a non-factor in the indicator of quality in most of them. For twitch, a platform that has come about and widely known as a gaming streaming site, I would expect the key performance indicators of content creators to be their gaming skills and gaming related entertainment value, not their bare skin. Alas all of us know that bare skin would definitely be a factor in the KPI of content creators because also sex sells, but I’m not going to Twitch to purchase sex.
The amount of movies marked R in America that get G/PG ratings in Europe and other places in the world because they show nudity is rather high. It’s a running joke that showing tits, love and affection gets you restricted but copious amounts of violence, gore and murder is okay for everyone in the US, while rest of the world has it reversed, and that it explains quite a lot about the US.
First one to come to mind is Amelie. It’s R, restricted to adults only like porn in the US, South-Korea and Malaysia, but 7 in Sweden & Swizerland, 11 in Finland, G in Japan and Spain and so on.
Not a surprise. There were boobs being fully exposed and no effort to cover them.
