As Twitch has grown in popularity, it has strayed away from being solely a gaming platform and has begun to allow many different categories, including gambling, art, music, and a space to just chat and hang out. This has caused a mixture of opinions across the internet as some are all for variety and inclusion, whereas some want it to remain a platform just for streaming video games.
As the rules have been relaxed, people have pushed the boundaries on what is allowed, which has resulted in numerous changes to policies regarding nudity and other prohibited content. Following the ban of popular streamer Morgpie, Twitch has decided to relax its policies further which has angered some in the community.
In the most recent changes, ‘Artistic Nudity’ is now allowed if the streamer is using the Sexual Themes label. This includes content focused on fictionalized (drawn, animated, or sculpted) sexual body parts regardless of gender (such as doing nude figure drawing).
Body painting has been permitted on Twitch for some time now and the latest changes help to make the policies more consistent which will result in less penalties for streamers. This includes writing or painting on exposed breasts and buttocks regardless of gender.
Erotic dances such as disrobing and strip teases are now permitted on Twitch, as are sexual dances including twerking, grinding, and pole dancing, with only these being prohibited in an adult entertainment establishment, which streaming in will incur a ban.
Game nudity and mature games are covered on a case-by-case basis, with labels being necessary and covering most games and instances of nudity, such as in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Games with nudity as a core focus, such as Porno Studio Tycoon are still banned and the full list can be found here.
These changes come after Morgpie was banned from Twitch for streaming while seemingly being topless, with the camera being positioned to not show exposed breasts. However, following the ban, Morgpie did show she was wearing a top below what the camera was showing, but at the time implied nudity would still result in a ban. With these new changes, it is likely that Twitch will quickly reinstate Morgpie as her previous content will no longer be bannable.
Over the past few years, Twitch has begun to relax its sexual content policies following the rise of hot tub streams, popularized by content creators such as Amouranth. This seems to be the next step in female streamers pushing the boundaries of what is allowed on the platform. It will be interesting to see how far Twitch is willing to go with allowing adult content in the future.
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Adin Ross and the other banned streamers should file lawsuits and wouldn’t this scare advertisers?
This is such bull! Meanwhile Doc is still banned?! Adin “violated” TOS at a convention?! Adin is right people like Hasan, Moist, and Asmongold run Twitch however they want it bias to them and against others they dislike. Hopefully Adin can get Speed, Jynxzi, Kai, and Doc to Kick.
Just become a PornHub competitor and have a warning before entering the site
Amazon wouldn’t want to be tied to that. This will probably have problems when the higher ups and shareholders find this out.
This doesn’t help because advertisers will pull away after this and Kick actually pays people to stream exclusive and if Twitch won’t pay them why stay there? Amouranth just signed with them more will follow.
The new CEO of Twitch needs to be fired he showed how unqualified he is
Asmongold is defending this he actually started this! Massive hypocrite! Adin Ross was 100% right about these clowns! Neon got banned for nothing but this is ok?
Asmongold and xqc are such assholes they champion cancelling others over terms of service but are so happy for this
This is bullshit I don’t care if you don’t like them but Tate, Adin, Sneako, Neon, Speed, Dr Disrespect, JiDion, Bruce, Alex Jones, all got banned for wrong think or because bias. This kind of seems like a race thing too I mean Kai got banned over not liking a shoe but they never apologized to him or undid his ban they didn’t even offer him partnership as an apology for being the top streamer. Adin was right these little Twitch club boomers have the platform centered on them and get rid of anyone who challenges them you see it when they manipulate and push false morality like xQc, Asmongold, Charlie, Hasan, I remember they tried cancelling Faze Rain over his thoughts on Grace. Asmongold shows how uneducated he is too he praises Hasan for antisemitism but would cancel others for the same he promoted this shit but thinks pokimane cookies are a problem?! These people are mental! I hope Adin keeps his promise and bans all of them from Kick! xQc I guess it’s too late. Ninja better call this out!
I don’t think Amazon shareholders will like this and neither will advertisers. The current CEO needs to go, then again I can see Amazon just cleaning house and shutting Twitch down once and for all.
How does this help? This is beyond stupid just be a porn site then! Are shareholders and Amazon higher ups ok with this? I don’t see how this attracts more advertisers if anything it will scare them away and I hope they pull away endorsements from streamers over this since they’re encouraging this.
Meta is dealing with a lawsuit over this from multiple states watch Twitch/Amazon have to face this next