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Twitch has updated its guidelines on sexual content following mass outrage over a new 'topless' meta that gained popularity on the site.

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notsorryforpartying
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Where exactly are these topless streams so I can make sure to uh… avoid them… in the future?

They usually cover/conceal nipples, so you don’t see everything.

In the list of “games”, the top item is the “Just Talking” or whatever the category is called. Click that and try various sorting.

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).

@xc2215x@lemmy.world
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Not a surprise. There were boobs being fully exposed and no effort to cover them.

DrMango
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I can pretty much guarantee that these streamers were all wearing some kind of strapless bra, halter, or pasties just out of view of the camera. Way safer than risking a nip slip resulting in a permaban

@avater@lemmy.world
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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.

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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

AnonStoleMyPants
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Would you look at that, nice.

@Sorgan71@lemmy.world
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its annoying

KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ
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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.

@MonkRome@lemmy.world
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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.

There are also Mario videos and Suika. It’s not just nips or Bloodbath the Incinerator HD.

It’s hard parenting because the platforms change quickly and navigating when and how to have impactful conversations with kids is hard.

@TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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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.

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Nah I don’t care about that, I care about it being shoved in their faces. My kids are at least old enough to know about these topics somewhat and can make the distinction between video game violence and some cam girl.

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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.

KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ
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These things never work at all.

Aaaaaand the Art category is covered in furry penises and nude little anime girls…

Final Remix
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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.

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Twitch is stripchat, just simply as that. Any female model can just do live stream, promote their +18 Links, and be half naked 24/7 just to get donates and subs. And yes for most people this is fine, cause who cares if a kid will access hot tubs for example. Who cares if Twitch is promoting those +18 models, who cares? None, none, not even Twitch.

As we community we should hold guidelines, but guess what ? We can’t.

I’m on Twitch almost since it’s begging, Twitch was supposed to be SWF platform.

@ZeroTHM@lemmy.world
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As long as they continue to reap their cut, they’ll gladly devolve into purple Chaturbate. Their only guiding principal is revenue.

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