• @ultranaut
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    78 months ago

    I thought it was pretty well established that Twitch was like a softcore OnlyFans that caters to lonely gamers seeking parasocial relationships, but that’s just my impression as someone who doesn’t pay attention or care about this stuff. The few times I’ve looked at it the sexualized content was obvious and unavoidable.

    • @NocturnalMorning
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      108 months ago

      How? I’m on twitch basically every day watching my friends stream. I follow a hand full of others and never has it been “obvious” that twitch is softcover OnlyFans.

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        48 months ago

        There’s a handful of prominent streamers pushing the softcore meta hard but as a whole I agree with you. The people complaining about the children need to understand it’s a private company and they can do whatever they want, if parents don’t want their kids seeing that stuff then they should moderate them better instead of trying to push the responsibility of raising their kids onto others.

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          need to understand it’s a private company and they can do whatever they want,

          That’s the crux of it.

          It’s their platform and they can make the rules for what they want (and don’t want) on their platform.

          If they want it to be a porn-free gaming platform, that’s their right.

          If they say “you want porn, go to a porn platform”, that’s their right.

          The reasons for those decisions could be many things, and probably are a combination of things. It doesn’t have to be “they’re just a bunch of nanny state prudes”…

        • @NocturnalMorning
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          -18 months ago

          I’m an adult and I don’t want to see softcore anything on twitch. That’s not what I use twitch for. As for the, you should just watch your kids better argument. Sexualization of anything to children is traumatizing.

      • @ultranaut
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        28 months ago

        That’s good to hear, I don’t use it. As I said, I’ve only checked it out a few times and that was not recent. My impression of it is apparently outdated, or doesn’t reflect a common experience. The times I looked at it there were half naked women in bathtubs and shit like that.