I think the credit card companies gave them a call and threatened to treat them as a porn site.
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
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Nudity can be artistic but we all know how this is going to be exploited on twitch
I just hate that highly entertaining, high production value, high effort streamers get like 10-50 viewers tops, and two chicks sitting on the couch barely speaking will get 3,000. Like I understand what drives it, but how fucking desperate are people.
There's plenty of boobs on the internet. It's this weird thing where people want to see as much as possible of the boobs they can't see.
Once you see one woman naked... You wanna see the rest of them naked too.
-Ron "Tater Salad" White
One pair of boobs could be different from the other pair of boobs I just looked at, I won't know until I see them all!
Twitch is just such a weird fucking place man
It looks like a company that can't figure out how it wants to operate anymore... They don't want to enforce their rules because having soft nudity makes them profit, but they also don't want to deal with the consequences of actually allowing it...
Its simple. Make twitch money without crossing a line. You can skirt the line if you make them tons of money.
At this point, it feels hard to argue that Twitch's TOS is even enforceable.
Oh, the advertisers and puritans didn't like the previous move, did they?
The only age restriction I've ever seen on twitch including these last two days was you had to be 13. Did you see anything for age verification when it came to the twitch softcore porn?
I mean I can see how this would quickly get abused. Maybe a bunch of are either new to the internet or you were hoping to bribe the 16-year-old... And then play stupid and say well the platform allowed it...
Geez, the fuck’s going on over there?
I don’t think anyone minds artistic nude or even full on porn, assuming there’s reasonable legal protections to keep underage kids away.
As we saw in the two days the former policy was in place, there are/were not.
Also, Twitch is meant to be a gaming-centric streaming platform, not OnlyFans 2.0. There are a million other sites on the internet to find porn, let Twitch be what it's supposed to be.
Thank you! I feel like the plot was getting lost here debating the morality of nudity while ignoring that the site is a gaming streaming service.
Nudity/porn doesn’t bother me at all but the moment twitch becomes widely associated with it is the beginning of the end. Parents will think twice about allowing kids into the service, brand equity suffers, other services start up that allow for safer spaces and eventually, as you said, twitch risks being considered OF 2.0.
Did you ever watch JustinTV?
good ol' justin tv lol.. i was one of the first few streamers on it.. i know that sounds hipster and all, but i miss those days.. i got in trouble for streaming family guy and games that didn't get released yet 😂
I remember seeing all types of strange porn there.
oh wow i don't remember that part. i wouldn't be surprised tho.
It was the first place I saw the video of the one lady slingshotting horse chestnuts into another lady’s anus.
😆 😆 😆 i apparently missed out on a lot!
Did anyone really expect this part of the policy to stay? My understanding is that they only reinstated the nudity ban, the rest of the new allowances are still allowed.
I wasn't even sure if that was the case from the statement, seemed like they revoked the option of cartoon imagery. I expected that may be due to the complications of unrealistic body image associated with suggested age, to be vague enough to avoid an argument in my replies