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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RazkilZ commented
Blatant missuse of tags, need to be adressed. They're there to make searching for content easier.. Not to be abused for cheap views.
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SenpaiNekoJenny commented
I just hope from now on things like this won't happen again. I love Vtubers
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ShimoHisae commented
This has been effecting my ability to find new and interesting vtubers to raid after stream as everytime I check at least a quarter of the results have been for irl streamers.
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spacemanjohnathan commented
Literally ALL the big streamers do it, whats the point of tags if people don't use them properly.
As a PNGTuber myself, I find this really annoying, and it makes getting viewers a lot harder, and getting viewers is insanely ******* twitch to begin with.It's also against TOS, and all rules should be enforced equally, or whats even the point?
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crusnik_heim commented
Yes this is a clear misuse of the Vtuber tag and it is also, clearly against twitch TOS. Also the things I have seen some of these IRL streamers using the vtuber tag for are horrendous and the fact that they are not punished for it is mind boggling. I've seen them clearly harass and make fun of VTubers as a whole. I would consider this full on hate speech in some of there streams. In the case of IRL streamers using it to increase their viewership is just shameless and something needs to be done about this issue!
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TimeTravelKey commented
We had petitioned and requested for the vtuber tag for a long time before it was implemented and it was a great step forward for the growth of our vtuber community and we finally have a significance that cannot be denied. Vtubers were ridiculed by irl content creators until now they decided to exploit the tag now that we have become more established. This is very important for vtubers and our own space as a new form of content is absolutely vital and the very reason this tag was even created. It cannot be misused like this. It is of cultural importance.
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cptlyra commented
Twitch Partners are now purposefully using the Vtuber tag and titling their streams with "Vtuber Drama" to get views and to be toxic toward to Vtuber community. PLEASE hold your own Partnered streamers accountable!
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ScarletStormVT commented
Vtuber tag is meant for people who are actually Vtubing!!! As a Vtuber, it meant alot to so many and myself when we got a tag for us to use. It helped users who wanted to find Vtubers actually find use. We are a growing market and people are now ABUSING this tag to leech and get views. This includes big streamers like Xqx, Amouranth, Mizkif. There's also been a rise of "ASMR" artist like ElisebeteTV who are using it and then slandering Vtubers by calling them p*dos.
Vtuber tag is for those using a png, 3-D, or 2D model..not for live cams as that is not the definition of a Vtuber.
This trend of abusing the use of this tag (amongst others) is going to far and needs to stop -
DLuuxx commented
Mizkif, xQc, Amouranth, and several provocative ASMR streamers are the last ******* thing I want to see with this tag, considering their already large following. I just wanna find people and have a good time, not look at people with 5k views just sucking on their mic
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minim0nster commented
As a viewer, it's so aggravating going into a tag to see it bogged up with people that don't match the tag. Clearly I want to watch vtubers, NOT a NSFW ASMR RL streamer... It's quite ridiculous.
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DakotaVosselman commented
It's being used by people who are already big streamers who are known to 'skirt the edges of TOS' on a daily basis. These people aren't VTubers and are purely doing get even more viewers and go with the cloud and/or to cause harm to the actual VTuber community.
Please do better Twitch and make sure that those people will be punished for using tags they shouldn't and cause harm to 1 of the communities on Twitch.
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EndoKasai commented
Absolutely voted. As a small creator, it's hard as is to grow and community, and to just get overshadowed by people abusing a hash tag is absurd and 100% demoralizing.
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kutiekitsune213 commented
How are we suppose to grow when all I see in the vtuber tag are scantily clad, irl ladies licking their microphones??
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EldritchMom commented
Yeah this is absurd. The huge top creators using the Vtuber tag without being Vtubers are just leeching attention from actual Vtubers and violating clear Twitch TOS. This is nonsense.
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detective_nathan_grim commented
100% voted ...i went looking for fellow vtubers to follow and i saw five to 10 IRL streamers in Skimpy outfits doing ear licking asmr stuff..and acouple of them where making fun of Vtubers in there stream title and chat
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Klausish commented
Many of the people misuing the VTuber are doing it on purpose to bully the community. They're using it cause they don't believe vtubing is content and are trying to spam the tag on purpose. Fix your system Twitch and ban people misuing the system PLEASE.
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xXDaSawceXx commented
At time of this comment, there are 6 top content creators misusing the Vtuber tag in the top 30 creators using Vtuber. That is 1 for every 5 just in the top seat! This is getting ridiculous! If smaller Vtubers decided to game the tag system like these top creators (ie Use Leatherwork or ASMR tags when that is not what they are doing), they would be suspended without a care in the world.
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Rainmallow commented
The entire point of adding a VTuber tag was to help us separate us from IRL content creators and create our own niche. Allowing IRL content creators to use the tag while openly admitting to doing it only for the extra numbers completely ruins that idea.
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ImBissedBermanetly commented
It's being abused by larger content creators to take viewers away from people who perhaps rely on vtubing as their job, and taking away viewers from new vtubers, which to me is a scummy thing to do.
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GrimmDeathReaper commented
This is also a reason why smaller VTubers, like myself, are struggling for new viewers.