Intentional misuse of tags ie. Vtuber tag on non-Vtuber
There has been a recent rise in streamers misusing the tag system, most noticeably with non-Vtubers using the Vtuber tag. This makes discoverability more difficult for both streamers who are actually Vtubers, and viewers trying to use the tag system to find Vtubers. Even prominent streamers are misusing tags, so this behavior has been spreading. I'd like to ask Twitch staff to please enforce action on the misuse of tags to help the streamers and viewers who are using the tag system as intended. Banning streamers from using specific tags they have been caught and verified to be abusing them might be a helpful solution to consider.
Hi, thanks for flagging this and sharing your suggestion.
We share and understand your concerns about how the intentional, repeated misuse of tags can undermine the purpose of the tags product itself. Tags are an important discoverability feature for communities, and a powerful way for all Creators—but especially those that are underrepresented—to express their personal identity and creative vision for their content.
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.
That said, as the VTuber community’s experience demonstrates, there are limitations to this approach and we are actively investigating additional steps we can take to protect and improve the integrity of the tags feature at scale, without infringing on good faith Creators’ personal choice to express themselves and define their content.
Our goal is to have more to share with you about the tags feature later this year.
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TH3NOOB3L commented
What if we Uno reverse them all by using their names as tags?
When they will complain about it we will repsond the same way as they do.
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derCrxcker commented
Cringe af
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Nenya_Kute commented
How are we supposed to get more visibility if non-vtuber with way more viewers than us use this tag? :/
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shukero commented
What's the point of a tag system if you allow users to use tags that are not even remotely affiliated with what is within their broadcast? This makes twitch much more difficult to navigate for my niche...
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seras_silver commented
This issues hurts everyone in the long run. Vtubers cant grow and people looking for them loose hope. Regular cam streamers who are using the tag run the risk of breaking ToS and getting in much more trouble than they do realize for an extra couple views.
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nullforce92 commented
Please do something the amount of none v-tubers abusing the tag is ridiculous.
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NovaMorningstarr commented
Exactly! It’s misleading and frustrating to viewers as well who are trying to search for Vtubers and are having a hard time because non-Vtuber streamers are using it, tags are meant to help people who are interested in what you’re doing find you. If you aren’t doing it why are you using the tag?
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LatDragonborn commented
Totally agree
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captainthunderblot commented
Misusing tags like this seems predatory and pathetic, especially when channels with 600k+ do it!
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SaltExarch commented
There is already a stigma in the broader streamer community against Vtubers, despite vtubers being a popular category that has seen a lot of growth recently. The last thing actual vtubers trying to grow on the platform needs are people who are blatantly NOT vtubers using the vtuber tag strictly for discovery purposes. Abusing tags in general is wrong and against ToS, so abusing the vtuber tag should be treated with the same severity. It's not a tag that can be "accidentally" misused easily. You know if you're a vtuber or not.
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GoddessBree commented
Incorrect Tag abuse and wrong category abuse has been rampant for years and twitch has proven they don't care. They need to work on this issue so much, as they failure to hold ppl to the TOS fairly and equally or even at all is a big problem.
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Elainee_UwU commented
Twitch doesn't care at all and i hate it. I reported 5 people yesterday for not being vtubers and they're still streaming on the vtuber tag today as well. We are seen as annoying children by twitch and wont be taken seriously.
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hibikisupersanta commented
Literally, a child bragging out for attention while pretending to be a good person. Completely unacceptable
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Patepic commented
Looked into how youtube handles stuff like this and it's also against tos on youtube but for using the wrong metadata and miss labeling your content. If youtube can enforce this, so can twitch. Do better!
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dourtv commented
As an active fan, I hope this would bring light to the issue more as more and more popular streamers are misusing the tag.
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shikatsu_ch commented
This kind of behavior is disgusting and I'm flabbergasted that twitch hasn't done anything about it. Does Twitch really this form of ignorance and childishness to represent their website?
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teddybearymore commented
To drakefromusa.
First of all, if you're going to ignore people who aren't vtubing and find someone who is, how is that any different from regular browsing? The tag is for who want to ONLY see Vtubers.
Also, you're only stating in the perspective of a viewer. As a content creator, we use that tag to get ourselves out there. With MORE non-Vtubers using that tag, it means LESS Vtubers get the chance to get noticed.
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Vela_Zhezzaia commented
As much as I would like twitch to enforce it rules. We know they are not. With popular streams able to get away with doing anything that does not threaten twitch money. We should just start calling the fake vtubers names. They are desperate for more views and they know vtubing is the future. Yet they do not want to change to survive. It pretty pathetic.
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jfawkesx commented
Sodapoppin does it for months and nobody cares at all, reverse the roles
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drakefromusa commented
People just need something to cry about.
If I’m looking for vtubers using the tag & see someone who clearly isn’t vtubing, then im going to ignore and find someone who is.