Twitch updates sexual content guidelines amid ‘topless’ meta backlash - Dexerto
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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.

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

  • bearwithastick@feddit.chEnglish
    144·
    7 months ago

    This is the double standard I hate so much about violence / porn / swearing.

    Kids are watching ultra violent game streams? No one gives a shit.

    The second a bad word has been said on a stream or a bit of nudity is shown, people are losing their god damn minds.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      52·
      7 months ago

      Short explanation of part of my issue with it:

      There’s a big, important difference between watching violence in video games/movies and watching a cartel execution or someone being run over on LiveLeak.

      There’s also a significant difference between “a bit of nudity”, even contextually appropriate full frontal, and eroticism.

    • gun@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      7 months ago

      Kids probably shouldn’t be watching ultra violent games, but that doesn’t mean porn being accessible for minors is not a far more dangerous problem. There is no double standard, because these are two different things. Porn is neurologically addictive. This is an established medical fact. Exposing a minor to more and more sexualized subjects is what groomers do. Interacting with strangers sexually over the internet is not something that should be normalized for children.