The sexual content policy is the most irresponsible idea that Twitch has had in years.
Today I caught students at my place of work, a highschool that's responsible for ages 12 and up, watching a stream of a V-tuber with a fully drawn naked model with breasts and genitals out, showcasing a slideshow of *. Not art, *.
My school's network blocks out explicit content, I have been testing this and reaching out to the ICT department to add sites that need blocking.
Twitch will join this lineup of blocked sites this month, because on any school account with those same restrictions, without logging in or signing up, I was able to find a stream with a woman wearing only highly revealing lingerie, bouncing her microphone between her nearly fully exposed breasts without any kind of age verification to stop me from entering the stream.
There was no 18+ in the title. There was no pop-up telling me to not proceed unless I was okay with 18+ content. I was let inside immediately, no questions asked, to see this woman in her sexually suggestive underwear rubbing her microphone between her legs while running her hands across her only bra-clad breasts, staring into the camera with the most sexually suggestive expression that I've ever seen on Twitch.
I had no issues whatsoever to find this stream. I wasn't even blocked or asked for my age. I found another stream, this same stream with the naked V-tuber, and I again was not asked to verify my age.
Twitch, as a platform that markets itself towards children and teens, it's your responsibility to keep this site safe for these audiences. Instead, you double down on letting **** be streamed and be as accessible as any other stream on this platform.
This idea, to allow all of this sexual content without having any sort of barrier between normal and sexual content WHATSOEVER has been by far the most mind-numbingly IRRESPONSIBLE idea that Twitch has ever had and I'm going to do my absolute best to block this site out of my school's network.
Flareshock
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ocaeon
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a strict tag and flag filter for all logged out visits would be excellent for at least this issue, in addition to a working confirmation of consent. it would also work on the horribly threatening imagery and descriptions a vast majority of streamers show in their gaming sessions. after this rather enthused description of the offending suggestive content, care to mention how you felt about the violent and hateful content these children also trawled through to even have a chance of seeing a real person? there are few wholesome and educational streams and currently no merit left in using twitch to find them. also this setup harms the streamers access to an audience, as wholesome viewers cannot find their content and would eventually be outvoiced by an audience entirely critical of wholesome content.
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stykyt
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Combine this with their stupid new UI and landing page when you open the app, people are opening twitch and being faced with bare breasts straight out of the gate - "oh but it's art" - nah, painting your boob blue and putting glitter on it is just soft core **** with extra steps.
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NerdyBiker
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I completely agree. Twitch have been incredibly negligent with their social responsibilities with this change. It would literally take any semi-competent coder half a day or less to add in a parental feature.
I do not agree this content should exist on Twitch but if it is to, then they should have not let the ***** project manager take control and added parental features FIRST.
Twitch is no longer a safe website. You cannot browse a handful of the categories anywhere in public. Despite their claims of the "Mature label" requiring a prompt to join the channel, right now, the Art category top list is nothing but genitalia on every **** thumbnail. The single most irresponsible thing this site has done.
I thought Twitch had done a good job by adding the labels for content, they should now USE them. Add in a filter in the user settings to block/allow certain labels and require any change of the setting to need a password prompt. Blocking should remove those channels from EVERYWHERE, no thumbnails, no recommendations, nothing. That way responsible parents can take action to stop their underage kids being exposed to explicit **** on Twitch's website and every day users that have no intention or desire to be greeted by **** when browsing the site can also remove it.
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Flareshock
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I just got timed out in the chat for warning a sexual streamer about the children that are watching this content. Timed out. I repeat, TIMED OUT, for warning the streamer who is dancing in her underwear, not normal street clothing, UNDERWEAR, about the CHILDREN that I caught watching her stream.
Twitch? What's it going to take for you to show an ounce of responsibility?
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Flareshock
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By the way, the word that's censored starts with a P, then continues with an O, then the second last letter is an R and it ends with an N.
Gee golly Twitch, you sure don't like naughty words, but bare-chested avatars are okay without age verification required to see them!?