On Wednesday twitch changed their site rules to allow artistic nudity. The policy allowed streams to display nonsexual nudity as long as the stream is tagged, so that the stream would be hidden from the front page. Twitch rescinded the policy 2 days later.

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      A lot of it is misogyny, especially in the case of so called titty streamers that are really just women wearing normal clothes (leggings, tops with midriff) and then being hypersexualised.

      However, I also think some of it’s because in a lot of cases these people are shit at the games and not very entertaining. At the start of it I remember certain ‘titty’ youtubers were using fake gameplay. Their content is more based on sexual parasocial relationships. It doesn’t really belong in the same space as a bunch of other entertainers.

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      Twitch has a some streams that are literally a woman in body paint or pasties jumping for money. Some (not all) of the titty streamer complaints are about this, not women playing games in a swoop neck.

      AFAIK the most recent rule changes don’t address this, it’s still allowed, but you can’t stream yourself drawing a naked person.

      Doesn’t really fit into my point, but here’s the funniest ban during the brief window where drawn nudity was allowed: https://x.com/baalbuddy/status/1735397897242579068?s=20

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    So weird the moral panic that was happening from this lmao. People are way too obsessed with kids seeing nudity, every generation grew up trying to see porn, from boomer magazines to fuzzy ppv on channels you didn’t have access to to sneaking it on a laptop, I don’t see how this is effectively different lol.

    Whatsmore is that there’s this pretending like the Internet isn’t one giant ecosystem. There’s literally nothing stopping kids from opening up pornhub, or if it’s blocked some other million sites to choose from, on another tab and saying they’re 18 lol. Why does it fucking matter if twitch allows some nudity on there?

  • Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Is the former policy why I saw a screenshot of some greased up girl without a top on twitch?

    I don’t think twitch could possibly be used for “artistic” nudity tbh. It would just become a cam porn site, which it almost is anyway.

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    female presenting breasts lol topless men aOKAY then? pre op trans guys with hairy tits alright? non passing trans women?

    this community concern just stinks to me that some capital G gamers are upset they can’t keep women out of gaming, it’s about ethics in video game streaming or something

    i’ll never understand live entertainment outside of people’s obsession with the thrill of seeing a mistake anyway, ala Janet Jackson, give me carefully curated scripted content, or give me death

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    Obviously there is an element of misogyny, but I think most of the people here complaining about the rule have not actually perused Twitch to see how things were (let alone a more thorough investigation). “Titty streamers,” though I don’t use the term, aren’t just busy women playing video games (that is fine and within policy). Hot tub streams aside, “titty streamers” are the ones who are top less whose entire stream is just them sitting their, periodically shaking their shoulders and “reacting” to “content” that takes up about 1/16 of the screen and that’s the whole stream for fucking hours. Twitch is trying to not be saturated with softcore 24/7.

    It’s really just a pathetic state of affairs, though just the one a shitty site like Twitch deserves.

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        Oh yeah, didn’t mean to imply I was so up to date I really knew what the “artistic nudity” manifested as beyond that it was more of the softcore like the website already has.

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    This is what happens when there are only 6 websites or so. You shouldn’t get your softcore parasocial stuff on the same website as video game streamers. There’s gonna be some infiltration but this is why different websites exist, sometimes you get dudes streaming video games on porn sites as well, but it’s the exception until you conglomerate everything and then you gotta do weird policy choices to try to have all the cakes and eat all the cakes too.