Adding pronoun information to chat
For people who are trans and/or non-binary, letting streamers know your pronouns in chat so that your gendered correctly can either be awkward or difficult. An option for people to add their pronouns in brackets beside their usernames or in their profile cards in chat might help to let the streamer and/or chat know if a user feels it's important.
AnnieKrevice
shared this idea
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ZoeS17
commented
@Ferrari_Fire in what version of BTV/7TV as neither of these on their stable channels provude "pronouns" as a function. You might be able to rename/nickname someone with their username[pronouns] but that isn't the user themselves just having the information proffered automatically as suggested.
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Ferrari_Fire
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Anyone looking for this you can install BetterTV and 7TV apps and they do this for you
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bommelbaer
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It's not even only affecting trans/non binary people. You just cant tell the pronoun by a username. Would be great to have a badge which you can activate similar to the badges that show that you muted the stream.
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TopMavrik
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I think it's a good idea to have a gender icon near our username (mostly in chats), it's a small touch that will be a very good improvement. It's kinda hard, not having a real name or a real picture, to know who are you talking to, male, female, I'm not going further, at least male or female for the start. You don't want to insult anyone, and you don't know what that person might be, and it's pretty hard to communicate with people without knowing how to address them. Or at least, let us choose.
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Quumin
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I was really impressed to see the attention to Safety and Acceptance at the cons and am shocked this is still not some sort of feature w.r.t. Twitch.
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5ucur
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In the meanwhile, there's Alejo's extension, but native support would be excellent.
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hello_i_love
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They/them
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number420dad
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very sad that this has been around since 2019 and still hasnt been implemented :(( definitely needed as a feature
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Cheeky_Goose
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Native pronoun functionality is especially useful because with random gamertag names, it's hard to just guess someone's pronouns. By default I end up referring to everyone as he/him. It could be next to their names or it can be tied to the reply feature, where it will show their pronouns as you type your reply.
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queen_popsicle
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Native pronoun support in chat, it’s impossible to know how to refer to other chatters
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jennykim5
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100% agree with your opinion there should be an option set pronoun next to the user name so there would be no confusion to call anyone i have faced this issue with my https://drduany.org/ clients so it would be very easy to call anyone according to their gender.
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NicfromKakariko
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This would be perfect! I’ve been struggling with setting up an extension that’s supposed to do this as well! Having it as an option from twitch would be wonderful!
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JokerHausen2
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There should be an option to set pronouns and set them next to user names to avoid any confusion.
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malikamustang
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This would be great! Normalizing pronouns is super important.
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alecplaysthesims4
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Please do it
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miss_eerie
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Yes please!
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Bubbly_Salad
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Amazing idea!!!
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cleverdew
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I absolutely love this idea!
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MIWBailey666
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I 100% agree. I love this idea. ♥
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LizzKitt3h
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Agreed! It would be nice to just have pronouns as a dropdown field you can specify and then have that show up when you click on names in chat