Twitch No Longer Cool With Streamers Taking Their Clothes Off

@kanerobot:

You must have missed the Playroom fiasco shortly after the PS4 launch.

One way this could backfire is that streamers who relied sex to sell will get more into the fetish territory. So expect more feet shots, farts and streamers faking to be swallowed by quicksand.

So, you still can deep throat sausages if you do it safely...

Twitch streamers could take a tip from Jemaine Stewart:

Hmm... I'm sure people will push these rules as far as they can, and there will be some nasty blowback because of it.

@scarycrayons: Yep that was the one. All of her info at the bottom of the stream was about her ass and the chat would go fucking nuts when she would shake her ass.

Hey, I like big butts as much as the next person but it was a bit out of place for a gaming stream.

Make sure to wear your berka while streaming on Twitch. Wouldn't want to offend anyone.

RIP Arteezy. RIP Twitch.

@kanerobot: There was this one weird speed runner who always had his shirt off and talked with people about exercise. He had a nice set of muscles but its really weird and sort of uncomfortable.

At least Giant Bomb is still pro-nudity.

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Maybe Alexis will be able to come up with a quest/achievement system for Twitch that encourages people to not be as gross to each other as usual.

Twitch started weeding out content that was tangentially associated with video games a while ago - even if it was quality content. I guess they have an interest in dealing with some of the more egregious examples of people who utilise video game content sparingly in between fishing for donations (i.e. the sort of people who might play a LoL game or two every few hours and will otherwise have some sort of gimmick to attract donations). It's all well and good that people are stupid enough to donate to these streams, but the upshot is that twitch becomes a cesspool of rubbish content.

The girl/guy thing is probably mainly about avoiding flak for double-standards, although there are plenty of male streamers who use the 'shirt off' thing as a donation gimmick as well.

Twitch is just trying to protect their brand. Simple as that. They don't want a ton of shit on there that's a stone's throw away from a porn camsite. They're allowed to do that.

This, to me, is nowhere near as egregious as the new music policy that they implemented on vods. I understood the principle behind that idea, too, but they went much too far with it in practice. Let's see how stringent they are with this one before going crazy.

The only thing I'm worried about is streamers who cosplay during streams.

I appreciate the language used, but "drinking excessively" is an interesting one. What will Forsen ever do?

I don't recall full blown nudity being a problem.

I guess I don't see why this is a problem. If you don't like it, don't watch it. They're not hurting anyone, no one is forcing them to do it and no one is forcing anyone to watch them. Just because someone does something that goes against your personal moral values that should be banned?

They're technically going against Twitch's moral values at this point. Also, "If you don't like it, don't watch it" is a poor counterargument. The only reason they're bringing it up is because they watched it, so telling them not to is too little, too late.

@anund: Because it's very obvious that the personality or the game is not what the focus of the stream is. Take that shit to livejasmin or something. Twitch is about video games, and when 75% of the screen is a webcam your stream should be taken down.

out of curiosity. Why does this need to be "addressed"?

Oh wow. People need to hit that link, and scroll down. Down, down, down down, down down down down down..

@somejerk: If only every female streamer was actually the main character from Jurassic Park Trespasser.

It was, at least in World of Warcraft. Every time i searched for a stream cause i was bored for a bit at least half was a stream with a cam feed and there not that well dressed girl. Put me off with even searching for it tbh. If i wanted porn i searched for that...

If someone is needing to see cleavage, I can tell you the secret words to put in the Google machine to fill this chasm Twitch's policy change has made in your life.

ALEXIS IS THIS YOUR FAULT

RIP Caleb Hart shirtless Mega Man speedruns to become goku

@rotnac: Greg Miller don't care

Yeah James has all the hard hitting commentary that is spot on.

The world really has a problem with nudity, its hilarious. But I guess it's not relevant when it comes to streaming video games.

Wait, there's no HUD and the main character's health bar is represented by a heart tattoo on her tit that fills in as she takes damage?

That's... actually kind of awesome.

If I can't wear lingerie and pasties while streaming Day Z, when can I do it?

RIP no_shirt Tarik

Finally, a chance to recap that stream from the other day!

A camgirl was setting up her stream on Twitch after Justin.tv shut down. She had a guy playing games in a tiny corner of the screen while she sat on the floor in a low-cut top ("I don't even own a bra, guys!") talking to viewers. She was doing dances and moving through her "house" when suddenly a guy walks on screen and suddenly she's on a first date. The chat started calling him a plumber (come to check her pipes) and it was all really awkward, especially since the first guy was still sitting on her bed playing Resonance. Eventually, she got banned. It was the best stream ever. Also, all of this was happening under the Extra Life banner, so that garnered even more complaints.

So this is what alexis is doin at twitch ._.

In theory, playing video games is one of the safest activities one can possibly engage in. Don't ruin this by harming yourself physically, drinking excessively or endangering yourself in any way while broadcasting.

AGDQ is ruined! So much for being "for the children" Alexis... Of course I'm kidding. I do hope the A(S)GDQ folk find some hilarious way to blur/hide Caleb's guns though.

STILL GOING STRONG (if slightly more clothed):

http://www.twitch.tv/calebhart42

@iamaboat: nice haha, I agree!

Thank goodness. Finally SOMEONE stands up for marginalized male game streamers who just can't get the recognition and respect they deserve when competing with women and their slutty slutness. /SARCASM

@brodehouse: Not only that, the actual character model is a pair of breasts with an attached arm and nothing else.

No self destructive behavior? I guess Spelunky steams are done.

@scarycrayons: One of my favorite things about Video Games Awesome is that the women are NEVER the ones scantily-clad. It's always the dudes.

@forkboy said:

You'd be surprised how many people are legitimately into that.

But now where am I going to get my shirtless Caleb Hart fix?! An entire donation incentive has been destroyed for Games Done Quick because of this!

Now how am I supposed to look at naked people on the internet?

The snitches-get-stitches referendum is very clear.

Yes, because James Harding should ever be taken as a valid critique on any matter ever.

Hopefully because it's written in way that promotes common sense over robotic rules means it will be policed in a similar way.

Actual human beings don't throw around kappa and grills. That's reserved for twitch stream monsters, and those are more hateful meme-spewing robots than people.