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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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Looked into how youtube handles stuff like this and it's also against tos on youtube but for using the wrong metadata and miss labeling your content. If youtube can enforce this, so can twitch. Do better!
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Non vtuber streams are only using the tag because some people get popular in a short amount of time. Most of these people have a huge following else where so it makes sense that this happens. But when streamers with 300k+ followers use the tag just to take advantage of the system is plain wrong. Do better Twitch and do something about this mess!
There's comments on other people's post about this situation that no one looks through the tags and this is plain wrong. Not everyone wants to look through a category or game to find if a vtuber is streaming there.
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Twitch is 100% in the wrong here. Yes these people breaking TOS make you money but, that doesn't mean they should be doing so. I personally found 3 cam girls all with 300+ viewers (one is just a replayed video so it doesn't show up as rerun) just to show off their bodies, get clicks, and make a lot of money. This is extremely wrong! One of them even used a free VTuber model from the software, which the company doesn't allow for commercial use.
If you want people to stay, I suggest doing one or more of the following:
1. Ban people who are using the tag to get underaged people into their streams. These people are mainly ASMR streamers who already are breaking other TOS rules by being cam girls on the site. Not sure why this content is allowed if others have gotten banned for it in the past.
2. Change how tags work. We all know Twitch is either reworking tags or gonna remove them all together. My suggestion is to make the vtuber tag work like a language tag and that no one can apply it but they have to have the criteria in order for it to show up. The criteria I'm talking about is something about the person being a vtuber in the title, vods, and/or about section.
3. Ban/warn streamers using the tag without models. While banning everyone would lead to the platforms end, warning everyone using the tag is the best option without killing off the platform. Banning should only be enforced if the person is breaking other rules or continues to use the tag after the warning.
Twitch needs to do better. I personally have no idea why only the smaller streamers are speaking out over this. The biggest vtubers are already big and don't care about the situation which is mind blowing. If one of them does speak out, maybe Twitch would enforce their TOS better.