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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…
If only "lived experiences" can be talked about without needing a label, where does that leave people who are talking about the lived experiences of others? If straight people talk about the experiences of an LGBT friend of theirs, do they need to label the stream?
Also, why is advocating for the safety and wellbeing of people in various minority groups something that needs to be labeled in the first place? Why would the desire to see people treated fairly and equally be even slightly controversial or politically loaded?
Labeling these issues as sensitive or controversial just gives credence to bigoted ideals that are trying to discriminate against minority groups, and want to label any discussion supporting them as something controversial or sensitive.
Advocating for equality and fairness is not, and should never be, a controversial or sensitive issue.