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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…
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ShirakoriMio
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This is so important. Vtubers invest immense financial resources, time, effort, and emotional patience into creating welcoming communities and they all have to operate with toxic twitch elites looming above them. People like XQC have said extremely damaging, inflated, disrespectful, and ignorant things about vtubers, but want to turn around and reap the benefits of using their tag. They can't have their cake and eat it too; this kind of thing should absolutely be punishable by bans. Maybe not total channel removal, but months of lost stream income for sure because that's the only way they're going to show any kind of respect to the tag. The tagging is honestly a symptom of a greater toxicity, but the least twitch can do is enforce fair usage of it's own tags to help prevent top streamers from laughing all over the genuinely hard working vtubers just trying to do their thing on the platform. There's been plenty of other top streamers caught verbally abusing vtubers in DMs politely asking for them to not misuse the tag and the fact that it's gotten this inflated is telling of just how fraudulent these streamers are. It's not okay. It makes twitch look even more toxic than it already is and it needs to stop as fast as possible before this behavior spirals further out of control from a lack of consequences.
ShirakoriMio
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This is NOT a matter of judging their identity. The people exploiting the tag for views are objectively, factually not virtual (you)tubers, and the countless examples of top streamers exploiting the tag all include evidence of them saying extremely disrespectful, hateful, and unacceptable things to and about vtubers. We don't need action later, we need action NOW. Failing to fix this issue is the same mentality that led so many away from twitch streaming and into YouTube streaming from unsolved problems like subscription and bit pay cuts and failing to properly represent the artist community for over a DECADE on the platform. Twitch is bending their will to top streamers and the repeated apathy from twitch staff has absolutely kicked so many middle and smaller sized communities to the dirt. It's just wrong.
This response from twitch is so unacceptable. Take action and hold your top creators, who represent your platform, accountable for the damage they're causing. We're not out for blood or anything; we just want your top streamers to play fair and stop acting like they can bully whoever they want and rub it in our faces. That's what Twitch is enabling and it's just abhorrent.