Allow Nudity
Since the creation of twitch creative last year, there's been a great community growing. Twitch has made a new and exciting platform for artists to connect with their audience that hasn't really existed before. It allows for such a personal connection between the art, artist, and viewer. When I see artwork from an artist that I watch regularly, not only do I see their beautiful creation, I remember special moments when they completed a section of their work.
On October 28th, 2015, when Twitch creative was announced on the Twitch blog they wrote, ”We expect to learn much about what is, and is not, appropriate for Twitch as the community grows.”
After a year of silence, I hope that the community can get some answers and solutions to this important issue.
For clarity here are the terms of service regarding nudity.
For Twitch gaming:
“Nudity can't be a core focus or feature of the game in question, and modded nudity is disallowed in its entirety. Occurrences of in-game nudity are permitted, so long as you do not make them a primary focus of your broadcast and only spend as much time as needed in the area to progress the game's story.”
For Twitch Creative:
“We are working on ways to ensure that artists can produce the work that they want, while also fostering a safe space for the community as a whole. We ask that you refrain from creating or using depictions of nudity or extreme violence until those features are implemented.”
For gaming, nudity can't be the primary focus. For creative, nudity can't be shown at all.
These rules imposed upon the creative community, cripple creators and the viewers knowledge from such a fundamental core of drawing, the human anatomy. Artists want to share their creative process, including their skills as they improve. How can they improve when the necessary knowledge of human anatomy is forbidden?
When game designers make a choice to have nudity in their games, the majority of the time it's for sexualized purposes.
However what the creative community wants is to at least have nudity as an educational tool to build upon our skills as artists to further our understanding of anatomy.
Today you can view nudity in games, however if there's a drawing thats somewhat suggestive it's a bannable offense.
Just as flowers, sunsets, and mountains are useful tools in the artist’s toolkit, the unadorned human body can be an essential tool to express the pure emotion of what the artist is trying to convey. Artists use nudity as a tool to focus attention on the human form, and not irrelevant aspects like how their shirts are buttoned, how clothing is being draped, or whether they are wearing the most stylish kind of hat. And if the point of art is to primarily express ideas about the nature of humanity and our role in the world, then it would be natural to expect the nude body would be among the most powerful of those expressive tools.
Artists deserve the same level of freedom as gamers. To put a lid on our talent diminishes the range of appreciation for the human condition and causes us to constantly edit our creativity.
I want the artwork I experience to be created with the best training, the most creative ideas, and the widest freedom to use all those things to make the most excellent works that best efforts can achieve. To do any less would make the world a worse place to live.
You allow gamers to play their games. Allow artists to create their masterpieces.
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Anonymous commented
Seems like a fair enough request to me. Hard to argue against centuries of artistic history.
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Anonymous commented
Nude studies have been a part of art throughout history. Twitch has turned a blind eye on nudity in the context of gaming on appropriately rated channels, why should the artists on Twitch Creative be held to a different standard? I support an artist's creative freedom to express themselves without puritanical restriction
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itsWoofy commented
Yes, please make it so I can draw cleavage and not get banned for it again when you allow streamers to full cam half naked already.
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SIRPhist commented
Viewer discretion is "highly advised" at my channel. You know me.
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miko commented
I was learning anatomy before on stream and i was FREAKING OUT about being baned because i was drawing the female anatomy.
In all reality i i made sure that the drawing was not to detailed around "controversial spots" just for this reason, but how is that helping artists grow and how does that make us able to share what we are learning if we have to leave parts of a drawing out?But yeah, i vote for this, and in all reality if your drawing nudity, as long as its not used in a "sexual way" then it should be fine, but banning it up front is unacceptable...
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ArtemisPlays commented
I vote FOR on this mainly because Twitch has evolved to accommodate SO many people and their interests. I just hope that if approved - Twitch lays down some very strict TOS and holds creative streamers accountable. There will be a line drawn to not be crossed. It would open so many doors for so many other artists = a healthy, growing creative community.
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Irish_punisher commented
Tasteful Nudity isn't Porn!
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TheGreekMC commented
I believe that it should be allowed as long as it's practiced safely and the caster has the "mature" audience box checked off. We do have a large young user base but if we can have casters play Conan why not allow an artist to sculpt, draw, etc anatomy. Obviously this would need to be monitored but I feel the creative community knows where the line is and how to avoid crossing it.
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Plushie commented
Mature people can handle mature subjects in mature ways. I understand that twitch originally banned nudity so they wouldn't have to be legally liable if someone broke the terms of service to get in to a mature channel while under age. the gamers fought to get twitch to allow games with incidental nudity. and it warms my heart to see the artists on the same path, There is -nothing- wrong with the naked form. especially in art. and especially when handled maturely. I support this.
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belinda_short commented
Yes please. Its absolutely ridiculous that its not allowed.
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Nottsilyi commented
@Thanatis, then equal consideration should be given to video games with nudity.
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Thanatis commented
If a simple thing as cleavage can get a toxic girl streamer money and views allowing nudity in drawings will be much worse.
Yes you can have nudity that is art such as statues in roman period, but now in modern times you will have hentai drawings and such.
The line between porn and art will be a hard line and is not needed since their are other sites such as deviant art where you can post your nude drawings for others to see.
Weather you consider it art or not twitch should not have nudity.
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gooroogaming commented
I agree that artistic nudity should be allowed with a "mature content" tag. I also agree with the point about so much violence in games, but the nude human form being depicted with charcoal or paint is such a big no no. I think there is a huge difference between classy art nudes vs blatant pornographic material. The latter, I agree, is not one least bit appropriate for twitch.
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Amazing Grace commented
I'd support it for drawing certain things (as long as it's not excessive porn), but there already are so many women selling their bodies on streams and I was always glad Twitch didn't have a focus on that, but by allowing nudity in general this is what it would end up with.
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SmashManiac commented
I'd like to be able to practice my drawing skills while streaming. I can't because of this idiotic rule.
There's already a "Mature Content" flag in the channel settings for the prudes, so I don't see what the issue is here.
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Luckytime commented
Robo J Hoff made the best comment here, as long as gamers can't focus on nudity then they're being consistent with their rules regarding nudity in art. If you give that power to one group, the other will come seeking it shortly.
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Gennousuke69 commented
There are many other places to go for that kind of thing, twitch does not need any part of their website to focus on any form of nudity, going out of your way to see it or do it in games will lead to a ban, the only parts that are allowed are the unavoidable/story parts, therefore you can draw anything you want, as long as the focus isn't nudity or going out of your way to create nudity, which is completely impossible
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Gennousuke69 commented
There are many other places to go for that kind of thing, twitch does not need any part of their website to focus on any form of nudity, going out of your way to see it or do it in games will lead to a ban, the only parts that are allowed are the unavoidable/story parts, therefore you can draw anything you want, as long as the focus isn't nudity or going out of your way to create nudity, which is completely impossible
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ZombieDragonMkCraig commented
As an artist myself who streams on twitch I feel like nudity should be allowed as long as you mark your channel as adult. However there is a difference between artistic nudity and pornographic nudity. I feel artistic nudity should be accepted but not pornographic nudity (Figures performing sexual acts and such). Thats my view on the whole thing.
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BeckySavageVT commented
Just gonna leave this here. Yes as a husband to a wife who draws beautiful nude oil paintings and such I am for allowing nudity in Twitch, but as a fellow streamer I know how the "scum streamers would take this" they would abuse nudity in their streams to sucker in the gullible bunch and grow their chance from doing nothing more than "being nude" for art. A prime example I've seen is a woman streaming cooking, While not topless she wore a shirt in a specific way and position so that her cleavage could be seen well and what did she do for the 2+ hour stream of cooking?? She only cut up cucumbers and was amassing huge amounts of donations and subs. If they could monitor the creative streamers that do it properly I would be all for it.