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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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DragonMomToxic
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I suppose that my reporting ElisabeteTV for her softcore *********** was good because as it stands, just reporting the tag misuse won't get anyone anywhere. This is basically going into the territory of allowing minors to potentially risk seeing this content. I logged out and when I checked out ElisabeteTV who was online, I did not get a warning or flag that her content was 18+ which means she is doing these rather lewd, adult streams where children under the age can potentially risk seeing them.
Yes, people can and will very much not click on a IRL Streamer/Facecam streamer under the Vtuber tag but not EVERYONE will. Which means, a minor could very easily stumble upon someone sucking off a mic and showing their breasts and behind all over stream while moaning suggestively to a mic.
DragonMomToxic
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I keep coming back to this in hopes that something will change, that Twitch would actually take action but I suppose having such hopes are useless. The worst part about a lot of these people who are abusing the tag is that if they are doing things like the s*xual ASMR streams or as it has been said Softcore ***********, they usually do NOT mark their streams as 18+ which is dangerous.
I'm pretty sure Twitch would love it if a minor just so happened to stumble upon a 'Vtuber' who is deep throating their mic, moaning suggestively and essentially lewding it up on stream. Twitch isn't 18+, you have to be 13+ to register. Which means there are -plenty- of younger viewers at risk of seeing these things.
As people have said, by definition Vtubers and Vtubing is someone using an Avatar (3D, 2D or PNG, etc.) and it is not these people who are actively abusing the tag and also shouting out rather disgusting things about the community as a whole. Honestly, if our reports in regards to the tag abuse are ignored then we can just send in more reports for the other things that these people have done which not only includes their sexual content but also the harassment and hateful speech that they have done during streams among many, many other things I'm sure. Maybe flooding the reports even harder, reporting every TOS violation might finally get some attention.