Allow PG "Dumpy" style emotes on Twitch.
A Dumpy emote is an emote with a shaking butt in a circle and does not contain nudity or sexually explicit content of any kind. There are over 900 of them on Twitch as of this writing.
Dumpy emotes are incredibly popular among a wide number of communities on Twitch. However, they have been removed by Twitch Moderation at seemingly random for violating the community guidelines.
Context Here: https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1686114277491650560
As these emotes are based on a draw-over of the PG movie Open Season from 2006 it seems absurd to ban them from the platform.
Context Here: https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1686127545429942278
Non-sexualized animal butt emotes are allowed per our emote guidelines. Closing this submission - thank you.
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NJDevil856
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Being from a PG movie the style has essentially already been vetted to be suitable for everyone old enough to use twitch by the MPA for it to appear in a PG movie. I don't see the harm in these emotes. They're not sexual. They're cute and make you laugh.
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donbasos
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Not only is it not explicit sexual, it is just a furry animal swirling it's tail as a dance move. Nothing wrong with it.
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tylrsteak
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i want my dumpy emotes!
(please)
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ToasterBomb4416
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its just a funny lil guy, not harming anyone
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mary_anne_sgriccia
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This emote is a tiny animal. This movement almost mimics natural activity of the animal, much like a winking human emote. Will winking faces be interpreted as a sexual next? There are probably some people on the planet who might interpret a wink as a sexual advance.
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chazwazza36
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While I understand Twitch being careful of the content that it permits/ promotes I feel that in cases like this it is important to pay close attention to not only the streamer and their other content but in cases like this where the emote is from a PG film and has no dubious intentions that considerations should be made.
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sirmaxim
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This could've also been referenced from Baloo in "The Jungle Book", Duck Tales, Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers, or any number of cute animals in media.
The way this has been enforced (unevenly, I might add) would also result in excluding wagging tails from people's pets (everyone's pets are usually "the real stars of the stream" by community opinion).
The nature of inconsistent enforcement and removing these has always left every streamer and the communities I'm part of confused why theirs were removed. It genuinely doesn't make sense to remove these.
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Fluxszi
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Creators absolutely deserve more consistency in how these kinds of emotes are handled. You already explicitly allow things like twerking, and now pole dancing live on stream. Silly "butt themed" emotes, or animals mimicking pop culture, with no defined sexual features, should not be the focus of moderation.
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Ripwrath
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it's a squirrel shaking its tail in a circle. while the squirrel is not clothed I would be more concerned if it was.
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greenjam94
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I appreciate the cuteness and humor from these dumpy emotes, it adds to Twitch interactions with viewers via chat. There is nothing in the animated emote that contains sexual content against twitches guidelines, an animal swinging its tail is innocent.
Any versions of the emote that is customized to include specific explicit visual references should be moderated individually, the entirety of the emote should not be judged for the actions of a few. The overcorrection hurts the twitch community.
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senhordoclash
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This type of emote are not a threat to the well being of the platform in any way. The removal of the dumpy from PirateSoftwere shouldn't have happened so please return the emote and update the guidelines for emotes like that.
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daedas101
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Please allow emotes such as yarrDumpy from Pirate Software to be used on the platform. It is most definitely PG and doesn't break community guidelines whatsoever.
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OculiLupiUmbra
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It's hard to add to as clearly stated an idea as this. It's poor censorship theater to remove emotes based on a PG animated movie when live streamers may dress, behave, or promote _far_ more provocative content without penalty.
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jermx505
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I see nothing wrong with this emote. It contains no sexual details and I have never used it, nor have I seen it used, in an inappropriate manner. I really love this emote and hope it can come back.
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Clunch
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I agree with this, seeing as the disney movie The Fox and The Hound 2, have a song within that is called Good Doggie, No Bone. Where at some point the screen is filled with animal butts. The age rating for that is 5+ so I would not see harm in emotes like this.
For reference the song especially after 2 minutes 50:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-C7iiuGOko&list=PLIyFTeWsze76LAFes0GDU52q1sCDFsY7_&index=4 -
RedrebelGoliath
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According to the new guidelines entire watch categories should be deleted as they overly sexualise actual humans, this particular emote is 1, not even human, and has no human characteristics either like you would find on a furry. And 2, it was based of a drawing of a PG movie character, the moving of the character is not even in any sexual way or context.
Rather than focussing on deleting a beloved cute emote, focus on getting the actual softcore **** of the website, from streamers content side of things, rather than this.
Guidelines should serve the communities.
Not the selfish profiteering of the platform by being hypocritical because of it's capitalism.
Focus on banning the accounts that you should be posting on OnlyFans. Rather than wholesome content that doesn't make you the same amount of money. -
Astrororor
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While I can understand the thought process behind these bans I personally would not say emotes like these fall under explicit content, especially since they are based on a movie that I used to love watching when I was younger. If there are any versions of the emote that do show explicit content those should be dealt with separately, and the emote should not be generalized to all being regarded as explicit content.
Personally, I think it's all a bit over the top, and I feel the emote should definitely just be allowed. -
Farosarg
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I understand that rules can be hard to define, and as such completely innocuous things end up on the ban-list when trying to work within the defined rules. The Dumpy emotes are harmless and popular, and as such seems counter-intuitive to have them banned. Is there a way to interpret the rules in a way that these emotes can remain on the platform? Thank you for the consideration.
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svaensson
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Please save this innocent emote. It has no sexual indication that would in any way break the rules.
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shortman
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The banning of a pg emote with nothing explicit in the emote is crazy but allowing other things that should not be shown on a platform where people as young as 13 can join is beyond crazy. I wish Twitch would open their eyes to the real factor and not just let a bot auto remove the emotes