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I've seen multiple streamers, especially women, who are playing games or normal twitch things and end up modifying their behavior because of fear of this rule.
by vorpalhex 5y ago
I've seen multiple streamers, especially women, who are playing games or normal twitch things and end up modifying their behavior because of fear of this rule. A whole bunch of twitch streamers are wearing slippers in case their feet end up on camera for a second.
The whole rule started because people were monetizing feet content which obviously leans lewd, but the poor rule targeting has ended up with all kinds of weird consequences.
- Semaphor 5y agoI watch an aussie food streamer, she's always barefoot in summer. She's been streaming for around 3 years, the only problems she had were related to excessive swearing. Not even spanking her partner was a problem.
- jasonwatkinspdx 5y agoPart of it is less fear of Twitch themselves but how some of the more toxic people in the audience react. Sadly if a woman does something like simply stand up and walk across the room showing their rear in an utterly ordinary way, some folks will not just say nasty stuff, they'll publish the clip on reddit subs like /r/LiveStreamFail and try to drive up a mob behind it. Then said streamer increasingly has this mob of viewers that's a combination of horney enthusiasm or hate watchers, neither of which they wanted in most cases. Sweet Anita has had some great discussions on this. She has Tourettes, including ticks that violate the ToS, but has successfully negotiated things with twitch to make that ok. So Twitch isn't straight up incapable of nuance here, they're just being inconsistent and incompetent.