Homepage for Communities of Adults and Adult Creators
the tldr;
i would RATHER be able to select an option to actually ONLY see adult creators/communities on the homepage, only mature/18+ streams, and i don't want to have to click a verify thing every time i enter their chat.
how about, now hear me out, how about instead of "shadowbanning" (which is what twitch is doing preventing adult themed content from appearing on the homepage), just give users an option to opt in to see mature content within their account, so that it is only advertising adult creators to other opted-in adult creators/viewers. personally, i would rather even go so far as to choose to NOT see "everyone" rated content on the homepage when i go to twitch, and actually, i don't even use the homepage for this reason, i just use https://www.twitch.tv/directory/following/live instead.
sure i understand you're setting guidelines regarding the public view of twitch from a nonaccount holder perspective, who may just go to twitch.tv for the first time ever and what they see certainly should be like, esrb rating EVERYONE. but i would rather be able to select that when i with my account log in to twitch and i go to the homepage, i would like to select (as with esrb) Everyone, Teen, Mature.
personally, my stream has graphic language, tobacco use, and some sexual themes. i don't want to have a constant uphill struggle as i grow on twitch - and i don't want to create "content for children" or be forced to create content for communities of children in order to get ahead on twitch. i was "shadowbanned" on youtube years ago because of tobacco use, placing me in the same boat as sexworkers and models. i was growing well, and barely made their 200 subscriber threshold, then they increased their requirements and changed their terms and i never even reached the payout threshold to collect what earnings i had made.
this being said, i am not monetized on twitch nor do i have any outside partnerships and sponsorships, and all i see from my position is that its been a real struggle and now that struggle is only going to be more difficult, and i don't see how the current "restrictions" regarding content classification is actually helping adult creators grow, this is why i am posting it here. if it should be in feature requests instead, then i am glad to post it there too.