I agree with OP. Dumpy style emotes are a non-sexualized animation meant to express/share happiness & joy amongst the chat.

The fact that the majority of these emotes that get removed get "sexual content" as a reason is absolutely absurd. There's nothing even remotely sexual about them, in the vast majority of cases (though, some can be, and they should be handled separately). Most of them are just a silly little character doing a silly little dance. Sometimes, and especially among VTubers, the silly little character is the streamer themselves, but they're still just a silly little dance from a PG movie.

I think that the small cartoon meme nature of the emote should not cause it to be banned for violating community guidelines - if there are Dumpy emotes that DO violate community guidelines, that's perfectly understandable, but many of them are innocent and funny and indicative of excitement or agreement, rather than anything explicit.

Dumpy emotes should be moderated but not removed, just like any other widely accepted emote.

A few outliers are obviously going to push the rules and make explicit versions but the majority that I've personally seen are tasteful, loved by the community and shouldn't be a violation of the guidelines.

Dumpy memes are very common and prolific in online communities, it makes sense to allow pg emojis of such an animation due to this.

Animated bums that aren't in any way intended to look realistic are a truly bizarre thing to ban

If twerking is allowed on Twitch now, then so should be Dumpy emotes

Seems to be just a harmless, and for most, fun dance emote. Who does this hurt?

If the intent for this moderation is to protect the platform and viewers from actual nudity, this feels like a bit of overkill. Something that is mirroring a PG source that stays true to that level of content shouldn't fall under the description of nudity.

Definitely agree. It's very frustrating to have a rule like this applied seemingly at random as well. If something like this we're to be banned, it should be banned equally and not at random

This emote style has become a large part of many streamer communities and a staple in many interactions in chats. The emotes contain very little detail typically, and should not fall under visual content guidelines violation.

Hallo, that guy above is right. Its like canceling emotes of an animal dancing. They are not sexual content. Really

Agreed, a "dumpy" in most cases is presented in a humorous context, and has no ties with anything nude or sexually explicit, sure there are outliers, but a fix for the minority should not hurt the majority

No animal dancing should ever be considered "nudity" or "sexual content" and I find the thought of such things to be absolutely grotesque. The emotes are fun, and are very much a fun part of many communities on twitch.

I hope that a common sense rule can be applied to animations like this. Obviously they could be made to unacceptable, however most of us have no interest in sexualizing a cartoon animal.

In my opinion removing that emote is harming many communities that used it for the sake of joy and genuine fun. I think this emote is totally fun, positive, and wholesome, and it is really really sad to see it gone.

This emote is tasteful in the context that the movie it was derived from was shown to millions of children worldwide. This emote should not be judged as nudity, sexual, and/or sexually explicit.

As Pirate Software mentioned, dumpy emotes are not sexually explicit especially and are based off of a draw-over a PG movie from a 2006 animated cartoon. The inconsistent moderation of these emotes cause confusion around what does or does not fall under sexually explicit content for emotes.

These emotes are used to spread joy and fun for communities across twitch and in my opinion should not be taken down unless they blatantly violate the policy. All in all clearer guidelines are needed here! Thanks for your consideration on this!

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As PirateSoftware states, the 'Dumpy' emote is based on a PG movie and is a wholesome and important part of the community. I believe that it's not breaking the ToS since it doesn't have any kind of sexually explicit intent or appearance.

this is obviously something that could be made NSFW, but just because that's the case doesn't mean it should be outright banned.

Let each emote get judged individually and not just flat out remove any emote that references the open season dumpy.