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Twitch will now allow "Artistic Nudity" following the viral topless meta (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Twitch Updated their Sexual Content Policy:

Changes: Certain content now allowed with labels
Artistic Nudity: Permitted under Sexual Themes Label
Game Nudity: Contextual; labels necessary
Body Painting: Acceptable with appropriate label
Mature Games: Label generally covers content
Stream Visibility: Impacted by content labels
Twerking, grinding and pole dancing are now allowed without a label.

Via https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1735024184114245689

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[–] hal_5700X 213 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

Just become a soft-core porn site at this point, Twitch.

🤔 In away they did that already with the new rules.

[–] [email protected] 121 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

It's hard to do that officially when a big chunk of users are minors. Neither Twitch nor the streamers of this content want to admit that they make money serving softcore porn to kids. Cause that'd be weird.

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[–] CaptainSpaceman 71 points 9 months ago (1 children)

OnlyFans-Lite

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Only(noctua)Fans

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[–] Uglyhead 147 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Amazon doing their own OnlyFans for minors. Who woulda thunk it.

[–] hal_5700X 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Will some streamers link their OnlyFans on Twitch with the help of third party apps, like Linktree. So they're half way there.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I remember being a minor before twitch. Watching porn on the internet wasn’t the task you’d think it was without twitch.

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Porn is artistic nudity.

[–] RagingInside 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's the Infinite growth model for you.

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 9 months ago (35 children)

People in this thread really pretending they have kids in order to get upset about implied nudity. It does not get more american does it? Some chick showing lots of boobie sure seems to be the same like a girl getting banged by big dick to many here.

Also if you actually think that some nudity will wreck your kid but watching gta does not i am not sure why anyone bothers arguing with you.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Manipulative, interactive sex workers are not the same as “nudity”.

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[–] netwren 113 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Can somebody please just link the boobs

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (1 children)

She was actually fully clothed!

If you want to see her porn: https://www.pornhub.com/gif/36941951

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 9 months ago (22 children)

I'm surprised how much pearl clutching there is in this thread. This seems like a good thing. It's all supposed to be clearly labeled, and if people want to watch streams with nudity, what's wrong with that?

[–] [email protected] 86 points 9 months ago (5 children)

The twitch boob meta always fascinated me. It's literally trivial to not watch thirst streams if you don't like thirst streams. But people on the internet get so fucking upset about it, and I assume at least 100% of them consume actual porn.

[–] glimse 49 points 9 months ago (25 children)

For me it's how popular and accessible twitch is for kids.

I've never really used twitch for anything except getting drops for games (160p and muted lol) but every time I see titty streamers getting recommended despite never watching any

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Everything on the internet is easily accessible by kids if the parents aren't doing any supervision.

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[–] qwertyWarlord 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It destroys the brand. The more nudity makes it on the site the more it changes the user base, advertisers change, the whole thing just takes a turn into something completely different

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I wonder how many non-nsfw streamers are rejoicing because they no longer have to be paranoid about modded games and nudity. Prior to twitch relaxing rules regarding nudity, you could get banned for a split second of nudity in a modded game, and official nudity/sex scenes in M-rated games were playing with fire (technically allowed, but up to an admin's discretion if you were trying to "stream porn" or just playing the game as intended). At least I'm assuming these new rules will include further relaxing the game content rules. It wouldn't make sense to allow full "artistic nudity" if you're still banning streamers because of a few frames of modded tiddy.

[–] Omegamanthethird 46 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The term for non-NSFW is SFW.

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[–] Linkerbaan 91 points 9 months ago (26 children)

The only thing that really bothers me is that the porn get shoved on the front page.

I wanna open Twitch on my living room TV to watch SC2 and tiveux something is painting her tits on my screen already.

[–] Zoomboingding 28 points 9 months ago

From what I understand, this change will disallow any stream with these tags showing up on the front page. Though, I believe this will still be at the top of the "just chatting" category, so really it's the same problem.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Twitch in 2 weeks : video games? Where?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I mean hot tub streams already exist.

Twitch hasn’t been a “games only” site in a long time.

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[–] qarbone 71 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yea, sure, Twitch

They were just tired of fielding questions of why the camgirls were exempt from the rules everyone else was following. Now it's because it's "artistic".

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Yall know there's free porn on the internet right?

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think a large part of it is the parasocial aspect. People get to know streamers (or at least, the streamer’s persona) and form attachments to them over time. The same way someone wants to see how their favorite character’s arc plays out in a show, people want to watch streamers because they feel a personal connection to them.

Even though that connection is almost certainly one-sided, (except maybe for smaller streamers who actually interact with all of their viewers on a regular basis,) it doesn’t stop the viewers from forming those emotional connections. And that somehow makes them more “real” than some random piece of ass on pornhub.

I think a lot of it stems from loneliness, and wanting a personal connection. Pornhub is great for porn, but it’s undeniably commercialized porn. Lots of people will likely end up viewing nude twitch streams the same way they’d view nudes from a significant other. Even if the quality isn’t as good as pornhub, it may be considered more desirable simply because the viewers feel like they know the person.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So if I paint my cock I'm good, right?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It needs to be visible...

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Viral topless "meta"??? I haven't heard about any topless meta. What have I been missing? The article only references a single instance in which a streamer got banned, and that hardly makes a meta. What has the Twitch streamer community response been?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (3 children)

there is a lot of afaik mostly female streamers, where the game content is secondary to them always being dressed and acting sexualized.

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[–] AgentGrimstone 43 points 9 months ago

What a time to be a cam girl

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Twitch was good when it was video games only, it really went downhill since Amazon bought it.

[–] grue 69 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"[service] really went downhill since [tech conglomerate] bought it" could be a Mad Lib.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Do they plan to rename Twitch to Jerk?

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[–] dylanTheDeveloper 40 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Finally Jerma can show nipples and toes on stream

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[–] DingoBilly 39 points 9 months ago

Nice. The porn streaming wars have begun.

[–] art 38 points 9 months ago (5 children)

These comments are wild and mostly sexist as fuck.

If you have kids and you give them complete unfettered access to the web I'm sure they have seen more than a boob. If that bothers you perhaps try being a parent. Maybe getting involved with your child's online activity. Maybe don't use the Internet as a fucking babysitter.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

Getting ready for GTA 6 I see

[–] Starkstruck 33 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Already furries are live streaming drawing giant cocks lmao

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago

I'm just happy they will now allow some games that weren't allowed for sexual themes before.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (10 children)

I’m kinda surprised there’s no NSFW version of Twitch tbh, I’d imagine it would be the easiest pile of money if they could capitalize on how much porn these Twitch gals are doing as a separate brand or something.

EDIT: Should clarify, I meant an Amazon-owned NSFW Twitch using Twitch branding. I know cam sites exist and also got lucky on Omegle a few times.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Cam girl sites have been around for decades now..

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm confused, what does "meta" mean in this context?

[–] hakobo 87 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

It basically means trend. It's sorta evolved from the concept of "metagaming" where you're not just playing the game, you're gaming the game. People now use "the meta" to refer to the collection of viable strategies for a game, and "the current meta" to refer to what is popular at this moment. This could be types of decks in a card game, character builds in an MMO or a MOBA, or other things like that. Presumably, for twitch, "the meta" is referring to not strategies of playing games, but strategies of gaming twitch. In other words, strategies to maximize viewership and income, and specifically, what is working at any given time.