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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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83 votesilliath_The_Fae
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I too, agree with this feature being removed as a problem. I am SFW, but not safe-for-children for a number of US states, and in fact it's illegal in some US states to discuss some of the topics I like to discuss with my audience (I mean, sure, the 1st amendment says otherwise, but I don't want to be dragged into a supreme court case with our current court trying to defend why I was talking about queer (LGBTIQ+) content around children). There are even entire countries where acknowledging that someone is gay around children is a felony.
So, I used the mature content setting as a defense for myself and my community, to allow us to discuss such topics while I play games that INCLUDE these themes (or just because we're bored, hey, having safe spaces for mature discussions of these issues does bring in the viewers sometimes).
The problem with moving it into "tags" and not an actual setting is obvious, minors can just ignore the tag, or not even notice it, or actively seek it out. I hadn't even realized they'd disabled that as a block until reading this... now I'm going to have to take up valuable screen real-estate on my stream with a "don't freaking watch this stream if you're a minor", as a way, to (hopefully) defend myself from such things!