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Twitch has already been morphing into Chaturbate and the change last week doubled down there. I don’t think a website with a large audience of children should h
by elephanlemon 3y ago
Twitch has already been morphing into Chaturbate and the change last week doubled down there. I don’t think a website with a large audience of children should have been brushing up against pornography. I don’t even know what was going on with the AI art stuff, but there were numerous streams where females appeared topless, stopping just short of visible nipples.
- ipaddr 3y ago[flagged]
- voidfunc 3y agoMeh if you're old enough to be online by yourself you're old enough to see some titties. The puritan approach to sex in America is ridiculous.
- haunter 3y agoOr maybe not every site should be about porn? Why don't we post here on HN then too?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago> Why don't we post here on HN then too? Twitch's audience wants it and HN's audience doesn't. Perhaps more accurately, HN specifically doesn't want that.
- malfist 3y agoHN isn't an image or video sharing site?
- haunter 3y ago>HN isn't an image or video sharing site? Not with that attitude
- insanitybit 3y agoPuts on my robe and wizard hat Well, hello.
- cwillu 3y ago‹looks up base64 rickroll encodings›
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- Thoreandan 3y agoThat blew some dust off some brain cells. ^_^
- pierat 3y agoAnd somehow, seeing Palestineans' parts of bodies on the front page of CNN is fine. It's the puritanical idiocracy of "woman body bad, death and dismemberment good". (I don't mind seeing topless people. Indifferent really. But seeing people blown up is akin to a snuff film. And this world needs less violence.)
- junofan 3y agoI mean, I dunno, the Puritans were upset at tolerance. It’s not really puritanical if Amazon doesn’t want to run an internet brothel. Besides, any time you let new content on a social site you risk getting flooded and people leaving.
- okasaki 3y agoThe default (not logged-in) reddit front page includes r/combatfootage, where we get to watch "orks" getting killed.
- Retr0id 3y agoOld enough to see titties perhaps, but not to parasocially live-chat about them, or send cash tips.
- YurgenJurgensen 3y agoChildren shouldn't be sending cash tips to streamers regardless of the content of said streams.
- Retr0id 3y agoAnd yet they do.
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- kgwxd 3y agoAre there a lot of kids on there? My oldest never watched it once and my youngest only knows it as the place we can feed cats treats with channel points while old people talk about old video games.
- insanitybit 3y agoI've never really spent time on Twitch but I guess I've always assumed it's for teens. Maybe that's just bias though, I assume teens are also the primary target of video games.
- recursivecaveat 3y agoAs far as I can tell it's a "pinky promise you're over 18" site, so twitch has a "see no evil" approach to counting that demographic. The public number is 22% 18-25, 50% 25-34. My experience is young adults are much more common than teens, but that probably shifts when you look at bigger streamers and lurkers instead of chatters.
- squeaky-clean 3y agoTwitch allows a minimum age of 13. It is a pinky-promise thing, but it's fairly common to see a chatter admit they're under 13 and the streamer is like "Well now that you said that publicly in my chat, I have to ban and report you."