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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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JessIsCringe
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The response by the admin, dowski, is terrifying by the precedent it can set.
If I say I'm a musician, I should be making music, right? Following the response to it's most extreme interpretation, no, I should be drawing character art and say I'm a musician.
I'm all for challenging accepted concepts but I'll gladly draw a line in the sand when it comes to blatantly lying.
This is an issue that can effect everyone, too. If the rules aren't enforced now, bad actors will notice and keep pushing the envelope until Twitch staff puts their foot down.
I rather see them do it now so we don't get worst case scenarios.
We've seen creators and users on other platforms do just that. TikTokers pretending to have disassociative identity and reinforcing cartoonish and negative stereotypes of consciously switching personalities, YouTubers pretending to have life threatening conditions and saying they will die while running a giftcard giveaway scam for viewer engagement and pushing dangerous homeopathic ideas onto their fans, and infamous users on multiple platforms trying to redefine sexuality to include dangerous paraphilias into the LGBTQ banner because they were (and in some cases still are) protected because they claim it's an identity.
This may be paranoia on my part, people may say I'm using the slippery slope fallacy, but this has happened before on other platforms; don't let it happen on Twitch, draw the lines now so you don't need to later.
A VTuber is a creator who uses a virtual avatar in place of a facecam and animates it using motion capture and/or sound detection software. This is an artistic medium, not a piece of art, it's not open for interpretations like creative identity.
A painter paints paintings, a musician performs music, an author writes books, and a VTuber uses an avatar and software to animate it in real time.
Don't let loose interpretation open the door for bad actors to ruin tags for users who genuinely use and embrace the tags they attach to their streams, it helps no one and, if left to grow, hurts everyone.