Twitch continues its momentum regarding the restriction of adult content. For several months, the platform has been moving forward tentatively on the rules concerning nudity, sometimes authorizing it, sometimes toughening its tone. But while content creators thought they had found a certain balance, the firm has just established even stricter rules. From now on, all content showing “private parts” even when clothed will no longer be authorized.
On March 27, Twitch announced the change to its conditions of use and its guidelines concerning the community users. A line has been added prohibiting any “content that highlights intimate body parts, such as the buttocks, groin or breasts, for extended periods of time.” This therefore prevents streamers from showing certain areas, clothed, in the context of a green screen for example.
This is the case of the content creator Morgpie who recently appeared with “suggestive” green screens. In a live on March 12, but also just a few hours ago, the young woman appeared in front of the camera, using the fabric of her shorts as a green screen to broadcast and watch a YouTube video. Although this is a rather strange roundabout way to do this activity, the streamer not displaying any naked part in the literal sense of the term did not violate any community rules until today.
Twitch did not specify whether this new rule was in response to this creator in particular, but this type of demonstration will in any case no longer be allowed from March 29. The consequences could range from content removal to permanent ban depending on the seriousness of the facts established by the platform.
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This heralds a radical change in the way live broadcasts are consumed. Even outside of the fashion for bizarre green screens, many creators relied on skimpy (but not revealing) outfits to attract viewers to their live, which will no longer be possible unless they belong to the Hot Tubs category which is a class of its own.
Obviously Twitch's goal is to make the platform as safe as possible for all minors (over 13 years old). They represent about 20% of active accounts and there is currently no way to limit the content offered based on the age of the users.
But since the announcements restricting the use of nudity, creators have continued to test the limits with ploys that are as inventive as they are provocative. Their goal is to make the company understand that suggestive content can attest to a certain freedom artistic or a valid means of expression, as well as a liberation from Western societal codes.
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