This entire thread is missing what the study is actually saying. > Based on these criteria, the top 10 videos were selected from the daily world ranking within

This entire thread is missing what the study is actually saying. > Based on these criteria, the top 10 videos were selected from the daily world ranking within the selected categories during 32 consecutive days. Within the Videogames category, the three most popular clips of each day were selected (n = 960) and within the IRL category, clips from the subcategories JustChatting (n = 320), ASMR (n = 320) and Pools, Hot Tubs & Beaches (n = 320) Anyone focusing on the idea that women are sexualizing themselves or that most women on Twitch are just softcore porn / taking advantage of lonely men / whatever the narrative is today misses it entirely. This study is saying that of all the women on Twitch, the overwhelmingly male audience chooses to watch the ones that sexualize themselves. This is a study about Twitch's mostly male-viewerbase and who they choose to watch, not a holistic sample of female streamers. You can't measure this by popularity for the simple fact that the women who play games on Twitch are far far less popular than men who do. And any woman who cultivates an audience of primarily other women will be an order of magnitude less popular than that.