Twitch has faced growing problems with the channels through which it distributes pornographic content and fails to enforce its own community guidelines. Earlier this month, the world’s most popular streamer, Ninja, announced he was leaving Twitch to stream exclusively for Mixer. Less than two weeks later, Twitch hit the headlines with news that it was using Ninja’s old channel to promote another channel that streams porn. Ninja made a video and apologized to fans on Twitter, claiming he didn’t allow anyone to use his channel. After being named and amid growing negative publicity, Twitch once again took his old channel “offline”, like all other offline Twitch channels. They’ve only done this with Ninja’s channel, using it to promote other Twitch streams.
This highly publicized incident is just one in a series of unpopular decisions Twitch has made over the past few months, and it’s only partially related to the real issues with Twitch and its nudity/sexual content rule set. Forget the backlash Twitch faced after announcing plans to implement a subscriber-only paywall, or Twitch’s partnership with Prime Day was met with calls for a boycott from streamers and fans.While many have questions about what Twitch is doing in these areas, many are even more disturbed by what Twitch is doing no work on other corners of its industry-leading streaming platform. When streamer Alinity threw her cat into the stream, she made an apology video but was not punished by Twitch, despite her history of doing such things to her pets. According to Twitch, this is acceptable behavior.
However, the issue of pornography on Twitch is a big one, and it came up again this weekend when esports analyst Rod Breslau shared a video on Twitter of a channel dedicated to pornography. The videos soared, but were only deleted hours later after Breslau took the videos to Twitter. Mainstream Internet attention. Tens of thousands of viewers watched for more than 10 hours, and Twitch profited from the stream despite the clear violation of the rules.
These channels, and those involving the ninja controversy, are far from the only examples of pornographic content on Twitch. Dexerto For example, in June it was reported that a South Korean streamer was live-streaming a trip to find a sex toy, which Twitch allowed despite its own community guidelines banning such content. There are currently a number of partner channels breaking the “stricter” sexually suggestive dress code from earlier this year. Twitch appears to protect some streamers, while punishing others harshly for less egregious violations.
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Twitch has responded to sexual and pornographic content on its platform by either ignoring it or retroactively shutting down channels hours after a live stream ends, but a growing question is how it handles some streams and others. A streamer named PilavPowa was banned for exposing his boxers while jumping up and down, and another streamer named AndyPyro was banned for watching allegedly violent content. my world video.These responses came relatively quickly compared to other streaming channels actual Sexually explicit content can go hours or even days before it is noticed.
It’s not hard to see why the internet is turning against Twitch. The hypocrisy of Twitch enforcing and not enforcing its own rules becomes more apparent every week. There’s no question that channels that feature sexually suggestive content attract large audiences, and it’s clear that Twitch wants to keep those viewers for as long as possible in order to generate revenue. So the platform is at a crossroads; they must either allow pornography and open a section of the site designed for it (and risk losing their young audience), or they must enforce their own rules fairly and transparently. The only thing that’s certain is that their current system isn’t working and it’s only going to get worse.
Twitch only punished the co-op group for three days for the stream in which Rod Breslau called out. Extreme bias, confirmed.
Source: Dexerto, Rod BreslauTwitch, computer gamer