The Issue with the Hot Tub Meta
Recently in the twitch community, there has been a rise of hot tub streamers also known as the "Hot Tub Meta". This has been a very controversial issue but I'm going to give my thoughts on the issue and hopefully twitch will do something about this. On twitch TOS it's stated "Content or camera focus on breasts, buttocks, or pelvic region, including poses that deliberately highlight these elements". This means any sort of content that deliberately does these would be against TOS. Now when we look at how the Hot Tub Meta we can see that it's unhealthy and unfair to the community. When I was looking through some of the streams a streamer called "Kaellyn" had their butt covering half the screen which I would assume is against TOS but nowadays it's hard to tell. Although the whole stream isn't just that it was obvious that she did to satisfy her chat. Another example is the popular streamer "Amouranth" who lets their viewers donate money to get their name written on many things the most common one being floaty. Just tuning into the chat for a few minutes I saw many twitch users send very questionable things such as "Show feet Kreygasm" "Show your booty" "Change bikini" and many more things. Constantly messages were being deleted by mods because they were either offensive or very ***. Another issue is the fact that it's clear that these streams are *** but the streamers don't even care to put the stream to mature just to get more people. This means that many kids can easily just go onto these streams and see big booba's. It's clear that this issue has gotten out of hand and that it needs to be stopped. My final thoughts are that although this stuff is "content" I don't think it's healthy or fair to the community and streamers to continue letting these streams go on. I think streamers should be able to be creative with their content as well. Hopefully twitch will something about this. Thank you for reading.
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crimsonwolf_gamimg
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Stop hot tub fun time on twitch as a little streamers who are trying to get anywhere with it are streams cannot compete with girls that are in Bikinis or pools or stripping around on the ******* stripper pole where are we are just streaming gaming which what was twitch originally made for was for the gamers committee but you know since then they’ve opened up to other things like cooking and girls in bikinis dancing around wanting a **** where we can’t compete stop hot tub fun time or make it 18+ the bill access that
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shaggzy
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its literally softcore p*rn................. kids can just say theyre 18..... why does twitch want this so badly to be on their platform???
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shaggzy
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Twitch was a gaming streaming service that has gotten distracted with variety. Just talking for IRL streams should've been the limit of variety beyond games. It is wildly unsafe for kids coming to twitch to watch games when there is a vast amount of half naked girls being allowed to stream and flaunt their bodies on twitch. This is also wildly unfair to other creators with the lack of ability to do so. While twitch used to support creators by creating equality among them through ToS rules, now if you have a nice body and a hot tub and are female, youll dominate on twitch. This is literally softcore P*rn. This is wildly against what twitch used to be and stand for. Now we have half naked women licking their mics and placating to PRIMAL urges in males to watch naked women. This section needs to be removed immediately and people should again rely on genuine content for their streams, and not flaunting their bodies.
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PhoenixAnimus
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Basically the whole hot tub/pool streams need to stop. You're feeding into these people that are using their bodies to attract young men and women who are desperate to donate just so they see or hear their name. And while some may argue it 'empowers' young women it doesn't my friends and I literally sat on our streams just talking about it and how they're now being objectified because someone like Amouranth (or however you spell it) is in a bikini or stream or deep throating her microphone just to get clicks. I guarentee if I went on to your platform in a bikini and did that you'd ban me twitch but instead you encourage this horrible behaviour in your big streamers and even reward them. How many bans are some of these girls on now? 6 or 7? They should be kicked off the platform. Besides as horrible as it will sound, their onlyfans will support them more financially than twitch will.
Twitch has literally become softcore ****.
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kozaka
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"Permanently ban every streamer that streams on twitch hot tubs that doesnt have their stream set as 18+"
This does not helps anything! Anybody who is able to click off the warning is in the stream in 1 sec. Only a more strickt registration (ID card, address, real name, phone number) could be the solution. And then if you are under 18, those mature streams will be not even listed for the kids.
And imagine...if the hot tub stream is not an adult content by Twitch, and not against the rules (not porn, not even soft porn), then it is ok that your 13 years old daughter do the same "content" on Twitch. Is it ok? What you think?
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juan546780
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Permanently ban every streamer that streams on twitch hot tubs that doesnt have their stream set as 18+
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RipmaV
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Twitch is for Gamers and creative people. But with the Hot Tub section twitch goes the wrong way! Twitch should remove the section and BAN streams like this from this platform. This is not a **** platform and the people that are streaming this hot tub stuff should go to other platforms. It's unbelievable that this got a place here at our beloved gaming and creative platform!
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pingme
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"Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches" category has "*******" spelled incorrectly.
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zogrimatemyhamster
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Why isn't twitch firing people left and right and hiring people who actually know how to handle this ****?
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Mau_Flota
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MEANWHILE PROPER TWITCH CREATORS GET BAD VIEWER COUNTERS.
I get you twitch you only want to stop our growing.
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h0m3st4r
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This is exactly what killed the 2000s age of Flash animators on YouTube. People posted clickbait videos , thereby abusing the system, and viewers flocked to them. Do you want this to happen to your site too, Twitch? I hope not.
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BollaBeng
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Please remove the Hot Tub category. I find it rather disgusting to see such a category on this platform, which is also supposed to be used by kids. Lets face it. The age restriction is quite useless and I think this category belongs more to an adult site rather than a mainly gaming platform with a few niche categorys
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SannoSama
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It is shameful how callous Twitch has become towards the minds of young viewers. By putting near nude softcore porn as your highlighted Recommended Channels to all audiences across your platform, you are blatantly exposing children to Adult Content, and it quite literally falls under the definition of Sexual Assault:
"Sexual assault is any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the consent of the recipient. Sexual assault occurs when a person is forced, coerced, or manipulated into any unwanted sexual activity."
Promoting this kind of content to all viewership on your Main Page literally forces viewers, many who are minors to the extreme, into viewing Sexual Behavior without their consent. I believe in fact that this is a criminal act and should be punished to the full extent of the law.
You absolutely MUST add Account Age Verification, forcing viewers and creators to First: Prove they are not a minor, and Second: Consent to viewing sexually explicit content.
You absolutely MUST have the Content Creators putting out this kind of smut set their channels to Mature Content. Allowing them to broadcast panty pool parties to children without any ramification, moderation, or consequence is disgusting and criminal.
You absolutely MUST indiscriminately ENFORCE YOUR TOS!
How can you allow creators like Indiefoxx to continue when they are whispering suggestive content and licking and sucking on their immersive 3Dio Ear Microphones while laying in their panties on a bed with their butt stuck out and the fabric tucked in?
Your own Terms of Service Dictates and Prohibits:
"Content or camera focus on breasts, buttocks, or pelvic region, including poses that deliberately highlight these elements"
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"Simulated sex acts or sexual stimulation"Absolutely double minded, biased, inconsistent, shallow, and unequivocally shameful.
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chart1203
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To add to everyone elses comments, this platform is accessible by literally anyone with or without an account. I just pulled twitch up in a new browser and amouranth is promoted on the main page. On her profile she has links to multiple explicit sites where she sells adult content. Imagine how many children are being exposed because of this. Its embarrassing and twitch either needs to add a paywall with age verification to even view content like that or get it off the platform entirely
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Quinno_Linno
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Make just chatting have a age restriction or something at the very least. Many of us are sick to death seeing these shameless "streamers" getting away with streaming very overly ****** content without it technically breaking TOS. It's pathetic.
Step it up twitch, This is a gaming platform remember.
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Rooster128
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I've run into the same issue everyone else is experiencing. I block this type of content and it continually pops up on my home page. Seriously twitch it appears you are selling out now. Is this the type of community you're trying to build now?
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Katasstrofa
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I understand that this brings quite a lot of money to Twitch, but I would like to hide from my eyes this huge number of women with low social responsibility who pretend to be cute streamers!
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treygaming360tz
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There has to be something done. Im so concerned about Children viewers on twitch. Your app is great its an awesome platform but like Youtube years ago children were able to find 🔞 content just in the suggestions and explore pages. Its such a concern that children will see the Hottub streams and dive into 🔞 site watching. Please if you care at all put a filter option for children and for Adults who are trying to avoid 🔞 content.
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littlem3rmaid
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Hello, I would like a filter to not see the hot tub streams.. I keep saying "not interested" and they keep showing up. No judgement to those that need to do that, it's just not for me. Thank you!
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idontwannaknow0
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Hot tub streams should never be suggested. I have no options to remove recommendations using chrome; three dots only allows reporting.