Thursday, December 21, 2023

Twitchs 18+ retraction

Who called the twitch Tos Retraction?

At the date of fourteen December of this year, history was made.

Apparently, a topless streamer Morgupie tried to game the hackneyed twitch meta. Then the artistic audience policy happened.

Twitch let go of the art gates, allowing artistic nudity, then pulled it back the moment the hate raiders and advertisers got their way. Deciding that they shall get the curation on the front page.

Here comes the blame game.

Well, they're a business, amoral with their direct marketing. That has a more singular direct response to gas station up their core audience. The real culprit here is the mass advertisers harvesting the attention. They are given first class treatment and will coarse those who want to make a living on streaming to appease them as well. They will do whatever it takes.

I'm supposed to help reinforce the skepticism of the core audience of twitch here, make them feel right. Yet that ain't the case, including the readers here. The hate raiders could also to be blamed because twitch has no guardrails for them. The prospective audience for the mass advertisers are the trolls and teens. Speaking of demographics and psychographics.

Artists themselves, the least to blame. They did what twitch did with the vague guidelines, then tested the waters. Then the twerk and AI streamers came, that is a whole can of worms, and I'm like twitch blaming them in their blog feels like a copout. Of course, some naturally went to UWU territory, others followed the rules. That's a reflection of Twitch though.

Their response rate on this is worth noting, there are a plenty of hard-working professionals that don't get the curation from the platform they deserve. The advertisers for mass approval from the core audience is telling.

Penguinz0 10 min summary of the aftermath, cussing included.

(Don't read the comments btw)