Over a year now and nothing has been done about this. There are still non-vtubers misusing the tag and making it harder for real vtubers to be discovered. There are also streamers who are using the names of other popular streamers as tags to leech off others.

Something needs to be done otherwise what is the point of using tags?

Quite a long roundabout paraphrasing of Twitch, summarizing OnlyFans/CamGirl content creators still being a protected class, if they rack in enough views/bits/subs...
Ignoring their own ToS by all means and playing it off, not hitting the points, they would step in on.

Specially when it is common knowledge for MONTHS, that the misuse of that tag, is really only to show disrespect and steal attention -> "hateful conduct or harassment"...
Often blatantly admitting to it ON and OFF platform, but Twitch remains a corrupted place, so moderation only strikes small channels or wrong allegations coming from bigger channels, towards smaller ones.

"We also do not feel Twitch should be the judge of Creators’ personal or creative identity, so we typically only enforce against the misuse of tags when it is associated with other behavior that violates our Community Guidelines such as hateful conduct or harassment."

The streamers mis-using the tag HAVE PROUDLY PROMOTED AND DEDICATED ENTIRE STREAMS TO USING THE TAG TO HARASS AND SPREAD HATE! They know they are intentionally misleading and drawing in an audience they hate to harass them. And when they can't get enough of that they send their people to streams using the tags correctly to harass them. This has been documented and reported many times and each time it is ignored as Twitch plays favorites and directly supports harassment, and then dumbfoundedly wonders why they are not making money.

Good one, twitch, good one.

Twitch / Amazon: Has Facial Recognition technology to differentiate flesh streamers without the presence of a VTuber avatar, is used by several other apps to ensure there is a face to a video feed as per their own Terms of Service. Can be used for Twitch!

Also Twitch / Amazon: Doesn’t use it for Twitch to automate enforcement of use of the VTuber tag.

Twitch admins are about as useful as a torn condom.

same i dont get it either

I don't understand why this is the highest rated problem on twitch. Whenever I try to set vtuber or lgbti tags i get 99.8% trolls to 0.2% actual viewers.

WTF?

Just stopping by to point out Twitch has now had this on their plate as a known problem for nearly 5 months without any effective solution for it. Really not all that hard to fix folks, all it takes is creating and enforcing a policy on gross misuse of tags.

As stated by Marina months ago, the ever-climbing rise of people abusing the VTUBER tag that has gone unpunished only adds to the ever-growing issues this presented when this first began.

The ability for VTUBER's to be discovered is being hindered by non-VTUBER's abusing and misusing the tag for personal gain. This is not only seen at the highest levels of viewership on Twitch, but at the lower viewer counts as well.

The reason why this has been such an issue is because of the larger-scale streamers getting away with it without so much as a warning to stop. Thus, creating thousands of others taking the opportunity to follow in their footsteps which completely oversaturates the VTUBER tag with people who are not VTUBE'ing.

This is literally the most voted idea here, and still, nothing has been done about it. You are actually having a VTuber event right now and still allowing people to misuse the tag.

I'll be honest wit'ch'y'all, I completely forgot I even wrote this up...what? Back in April? I'm glad y'all're commentin' and sharin.' Twitch needs to understand that the tags system they created is being abused, and not just by some trolls; but by streamers with thousands or more viewers. Streamers who ruin the experience for other streamers that are using the tag system [or lack there-of now] properly, and people who want to discover streamers from those tags, who actually make content related to those tags.

Lareolan probably both at this point

Twitch literally said "who are we to say an irl human isn't a vtuber if that's what they identify as?"

This isn't about gender identity, Twitch.
This is literally irl humans on camera calling themselves VTubers... That's not... What VTubers are. This shouldn't even be a discussion are you all okay???

So you're going to have a "VTuber Takeover" event, and then allow non-VTubers to take over the VTuber tag... Does Twitch need to look up the definition of irony or laziness?

Good to see that on twitches own Vtuber Takeover event, the second top streamer in the Vtuber catagory is still able to abuse the Vtuber tag. Good Job.

Can we repost this same concern as a re-visiting? Since Twitch changed their tag system, maybe they'll have something new to say (doubtful, but possible)

Even after the "rework" twitch made on tags, the vtuber tag is widely abused. Thanks for nothing Twitch.

This could easily be the platform for Vtubers, it’s simple, protect the tag from being used by streamers who belong on **** sites. By allowing them to use it you are associating Vtubers with **** streamers. This hurts your platform, and limits Vtubers success. I don’t care if a performer does lewd streams, I care about what I can trust letting my kid see, and my friends successes

It is frustrating they don't want to stop the misuse of tags unless there is a violation to tos. BUT WAIT, when people are doing suggestive things for tips like squatting basically naked because their "bathing suit" covers nothing" in a pool in their bedroom, its fine to abuse tags and tos.

Other people are punished for linking Patreon in their tittle and told they are trading sexual favors but some people are doing that on stream and nothing is done.