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  1. Introduction of a NSFW Category in Art

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  2. Sensitive social issues Bullet points need to be removed, not 'clarified'

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    TheOneAzrai commented  · 

    Agreeing with LittleMxCriptid. I only started streaming on Twitch last year, and my life as a trans person immigrating often means discussions about the issues I (and many in my community who watches my streams) face. Sometimes lengthy, in-depth discussions!

    And my channel is about crafting. I make props and costumes, short films, stories, and games. I draw. I write. The only reason any part of my existence would be considered "sensitive" or political, is because nonsense like this and the people it caters to are obsessed with making it so. The solution is not isolating us, sequestering us and our lives and our language. (Not even getting into the potential impact on ads and livelihoods, which is considerable.)

    Twitch is farther behind on this lesson than other apps in many ways. I was shocked to find that automods flag completely normal words like “gay” and “queer” and “trans,” as if those words are dirty, and not the people who might use them hatefully. 

Ridiculously, I can’t even put “Twink” in my bios on Twitch - like I do in a genuine (if tongue-in-cheek) way on every other social media I have - which tells me that nobody on this team even googled the word before being a complete weirdo about it. (Here’s a neon hint; Twink is not a sexual word! Automatically sexualizing queer people falls smack dab into one of the most dangerous types of discrimination; fetishization! This is a huge problem!)

    My identity and my body is not a "sensitive topic" or an ideology. It is not a talking point. It is not a thought experiment. Before anything else, it is me. It is a whole type of person. Nothing supersedes that.

    Creators generate the entire value of this site. You cannot have our art and our labor without the whole of us. I was hoping Twitch would get -better- on these issues, not worse. Now I’m wondering why I didn’t just start streaming on YouTube, where I already had/have an audience. 



    With all due respect to Twitch, the ‘ideology’ behind this policy(?) can sit on a thumbtack and spin. 

Thank you.

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