I wonder if it would be advantageous to make a community about live streaming now that Twitch has finally grown out of being a gaming platform. Justin TV was so much more diverse, live streams are so much more than just Twitch and the meta there.
Edit: how some people feel about twitter is how I feel about Twitch. A company is making a genre of media uninteresting to me.
Um. Why? I think Walmart and college football are both highly profitable and abusive enough that federal regulation should be hitting their business practices. But Twitter and twitch? Pre-elon, I think they both had an effective monopoly on their markets but weren’t visibly abusing that monopoly. They are, but its just not that damaging.
Twitter is a one off monolith of a style of social media, in the genre of reddit and facebook. Like wal mart to target and other generic shopping centers.
Twitch is not a generic social media site, its a specific style of entertainment. Like football, its creating a specific event style entertainment catering to people looking for a specific thing.
If their only shared point of comparison is that they are big and make lots of money (which is the same thing repeated twice) then there is no real shared point of comparison.
It doesnt make sense to say twitter is driving you away from the concept of social media, in the same way it doesnt make sense to say walmart is driving you away from the concept of buying groceries.
No I think twitch hosts all kinds of livestreams and hides behind the ides that they are all about gaming. Twitch maintains more style than other social media, but its just monopolizing one kind of social media post. Live streams.
"Sexual Content Policy Update
DEC 15, 2023← All Posts
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Author: Dan Clancy
On Wednesday, we updated our Sexual Content Policy. Our primary goal in making these updates was to make our guidelines easier to understand and enforce.
Part of this update included changes to how we treat fictionalized nudity. For years, through UserVoice and in conversations, we heard from artists that our content policies were limiting. In making this update, we were trying to be responsive to these requests and allow the thriving artist community on Twitch to utilize the human form in their art.
First, we want to make clear that some streamers, in response to this update, created content that was in violation of our new policy. We’ve worked quickly to remove that content and issue channel enforcements.
However, there also was a great deal of new content that was allowed under the updated policy. Much of the content created has been met with community concern. These are concerns we share. Upon reflection, we have decided that we went too far with this change. Digital depictions of nudity present a unique challenge–AI can be used to create realistic images, and it can be hard to distinguish between digital art and photography.
So, effective today, we are rolling back the artistic nudity changes. Moving forward, depictions of real or fictional nudity won’t be allowed on Twitch, regardless of the medium. This restriction does not apply to Mature-rated games. You can find emote-specific standards for nudity and sexual content in the Emote Guidelines. We aren’t making other changes to the updated Sexual Content Policy.
We are in the process of pushing out updates to our Community Guidelines that reflect this change. It will take a few days for both this blog and for the new Community Guidelines to be translated.
While I wish we would have predicted this outcome, part of our job is to make adjustments that serve the community. I apologize for the confusion that this update has caused."
I went to check the art section to see how it impacted it when it was announced. Booty, Booty Twerking Everywhere, that’s all it was, and it was not lives, it was people putting YouTube videos of people twerking to the camera and those had 300, 200, 100 views
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Who cares
About 7 million streamers and even millions more who use the platform.
So y’know, hardly anybody.
I wonder if it would be advantageous to make a community about live streaming now that Twitch has finally grown out of being a gaming platform. Justin TV was so much more diverse, live streams are so much more than just Twitch and the meta there. Edit: how some people feel about twitter is how I feel about Twitch. A company is making a genre of media uninteresting to me.
Comparing twitter to twitch is like comparing walmart to college football.
Um. Why? I think Walmart and college football are both highly profitable and abusive enough that federal regulation should be hitting their business practices. But Twitter and twitch? Pre-elon, I think they both had an effective monopoly on their markets but weren’t visibly abusing that monopoly. They are, but its just not that damaging.
Twitter is a one off monolith of a style of social media, in the genre of reddit and facebook. Like wal mart to target and other generic shopping centers.
Twitch is not a generic social media site, its a specific style of entertainment. Like football, its creating a specific event style entertainment catering to people looking for a specific thing.
If their only shared point of comparison is that they are big and make lots of money (which is the same thing repeated twice) then there is no real shared point of comparison.
It doesnt make sense to say twitter is driving you away from the concept of social media, in the same way it doesnt make sense to say walmart is driving you away from the concept of buying groceries.
No I think twitch hosts all kinds of livestreams and hides behind the ides that they are all about gaming. Twitch maintains more style than other social media, but its just monopolizing one kind of social media post. Live streams.
Can someone read this for me and let me know now if it means more or less butthole?
Less. They’re rolling back their recent, more open, policy.
Aw, what? They had a more butthole policy?
Damn
Less butthole
(•_•)
I cant help but find the term “artistic nudity” hilarious. I just imagine all the channels playing smooth jazz while they draw.
Actually, that’s not far off :)
"Sexual Content Policy Update DEC 15, 2023← All Posts
1920x1080_header_ts_shield_ice.jpg
Author: Dan Clancy
On Wednesday, we updated our Sexual Content Policy. Our primary goal in making these updates was to make our guidelines easier to understand and enforce.
Part of this update included changes to how we treat fictionalized nudity. For years, through UserVoice and in conversations, we heard from artists that our content policies were limiting. In making this update, we were trying to be responsive to these requests and allow the thriving artist community on Twitch to utilize the human form in their art.
First, we want to make clear that some streamers, in response to this update, created content that was in violation of our new policy. We’ve worked quickly to remove that content and issue channel enforcements.
However, there also was a great deal of new content that was allowed under the updated policy. Much of the content created has been met with community concern. These are concerns we share. Upon reflection, we have decided that we went too far with this change. Digital depictions of nudity present a unique challenge–AI can be used to create realistic images, and it can be hard to distinguish between digital art and photography.
So, effective today, we are rolling back the artistic nudity changes. Moving forward, depictions of real or fictional nudity won’t be allowed on Twitch, regardless of the medium. This restriction does not apply to Mature-rated games. You can find emote-specific standards for nudity and sexual content in the Emote Guidelines. We aren’t making other changes to the updated Sexual Content Policy.
We are in the process of pushing out updates to our Community Guidelines that reflect this change. It will take a few days for both this blog and for the new Community Guidelines to be translated.
While I wish we would have predicted this outcome, part of our job is to make adjustments that serve the community. I apologize for the confusion that this update has caused."
The important question: “Is HouseParty still prohibited?”
Lol
I went to check the art section to see how it impacted it when it was announced. Booty, Booty Twerking Everywhere, that’s all it was, and it was not lives, it was people putting YouTube videos of people twerking to the camera and those had 300, 200, 100 views
Crazy