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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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Misuse of the tags by irl streamers is literally just abuse of the system to pull more attention away from that category to their own streams and hinders channel growth for many small streamers that already get engulfed by and overlooked in favor of bigger vtubers. When called out on this many non vtuber streamers abusing the tag have a tendency to act very toxic in a way that absolutely makes twitch look bad and most likely costs money in the long run. At the very least, demonetization of channels that abuse the tags system should be an adequate punishment- even if you first have to implement a strike system. I am certain that this conduct is not something twitch wants to be known by, but that's the path we're currently heading down. If not for the streamers, then do it for your company. It's a very smart business move if nothing else.