Categories as they are are a bother to search through. Looking for Pokémon games? Well, look through all these people that have "pokémon" in their names, then all over these streams that might not be for Pokémon!

Categories nesting with Sub-Categories could change this altogether. Let's say we would want to look for Pokémon games. We'd type "Pokémon", head into the "Pokémon" category and look at all the streamers doing different games. If we want some more precision into the category, different sub-categories like "Mystery Dungeon" or "Main Titles" could work, so on and so forth until you reach the "end" of that branch.

This would go like "Pokémon" > "Mystery Dungeon" > "Rescue Team DX", for example.

But the wonderful thing about this, is that it doesn't restrict itself to games.

For example, "Creative", can behave like "Creative" > "Pottery", or "Technology" > "Programming", instead of the smaller tags that people use less (or that don't exist in the first place)!

These kinds of categories could make looking for a particular type of niche that much faster, as well as condense some of the game categories into much more agreeable to see for the viewer, and much more discoverable for the smaller streamer.

You could also check the global interest in single games or whole franchises by sorting them into full nested categories (like "Pokémon", "Zelda", "The Elder Scrolls", "Final Fantasy", for example), or by "individual category", like Twitch usually does.

Hello, there are an increasing number of video artists using twitch, but no good category to bring them together. Some use 'Art' but tend to get lost in the sea of traditional artists (painters, drawers etc). Some use 'Music' since their video art is often accompanied by music, but again the focus of that category isn't really right for what they're doing.

Most of the video artists I'm aware of are either generating artistic moving video patterns from scratch (like '70s-style psychadelic music videos, but moving far beyond that with modern technologies) or curating, reshaping and modifying pre-existing video (glitch, colorise, recomposition, remixing etc) to produce distinctive and unique new works. Many are using specialised physical hardware or software, but I'm sure there are others out there using other techniques I don't know about yet... because there's isn't currently a category to group us all together so we can find each other!

If you'd like some recommendations of streamers I know of who would fit in this category then I'd be happy to provide them.

Our community isn't all that large... yet... but I do think we are unique and distinctive and it would be worth giving us a focus and a way to find each other so we can grow together.

If twitch can't be bothered to get the default tags for games correct, which is obviously going to happen with any organization of this size working at this speed, then at least allow me to disconnect tags that don't describe what I'm doing. IE when I'm playing X-Plane 11, a flight simulator, why am I getting "Stealth" "RTS" and "Strategy"? Let -me- manage my tags, because you're bad at it. I appreciate the suggestions I get, but if you've got default tags that suck, I should be able to remove them. This should always have been a capability we should have had. For instance what if I'm playing an unofficial multiplayer mod to a popular single player game? Default tags are going to include single-player, but I'm definitely NOT playing single player. I should be able to remove that tag. Instead the best I can do is add multiplayer so I have both the single-player and multiplayer tags which makes no sense and looks like I'm trying to scam views.

End of the day I should be able to edit my tags to show -exactly- what I want to show. Otherwise I spend more time explaining why I'm in certain tags because twitch got drunk and giggled with its friends about how fun it would be to add "stealth" to a flight sim, than I am finding people who actually want to see what I'm broadcasting.

The removal of the "blind playthrough" tag was made in an attempt to be more inclusive of those with vision based disabilities, however the move of taking tags away effectively hurts more streamers in the long run than it helps (myself included, I have a visual impairment and play new games all the time on my stream, so blind playthrough is quite literal). For reference, I could count 16 tags directed towards speedrunning (a small subset of content creators on twitch, though quite popular in its own right.) and not a single one directed towards gaming with a disability.

Instead of removing tags to be inclusive, add more tags with inclusive language (handicapped gaming, differently abled, visually impaired, hearing impaired, physically impaired). If you really want more disabled gamers to feel welcome in the community, give them more opportunities to gain more viewers through tags.