

Sure, to get to both and to best utilize both you have to get in your car and start driving, but no one has gotten in their car to go to a Taco Bell and suddenly thought on a whim, “Maybe I’ll just get what I want from Sunoco.” Imagine Taco Bell thinking Sunoco Gas Station is stealing their customers.

In the history of Twitch, there has never been a person who just went to Twitch’s main page, unsure of whether they were going to watch a fairly attractive person talking in a lukewarm soup or watching you play FIFA while delivering your hot take on microtransactions. Listen, if you have a high-end video game going, you’re playing it well and you’re talking to your audience and you’re losing your views because someone is sitting in a large cup and just talking? That problem is on you, my dude. If you feel this is true, I need you to sit down for a minute. I know one of the common things I’ve heard is that other streamers think that this is stealing their views. Watching people do nothing when I could be doing nothing was even harder.īut I felt that this was important because there were a lot of people who were acting like there was something controversial about having a conversation with a woman in water. Watching people play video games when I could be playing video games was already a hard sell for me. I’m not that big on Twitch and I’m really not big on Just Chatting. This usually results in the streamer wearing a bathing suit and, more often than not, the streamers who do this tend to look pretty damn confident while doing so. But secondly, it’s a chat session with a popular streamer where the streamer just happens to be chilling in a hot tub. This is huge for the platform because ever since the “hot tub” meta started, people have been losing their minds over whether or not this is allowed.įor those who don’t know what I’m talking about, first off, welcome to the year 2021.

Second, while we have guidelines about sexually suggestive content, being found to be sexy by others is not against our rules, and Twitch will not take enforcement action against women, or anyone on our service, for their perceived attractiveness. This is a category outside Twitch’s “Just Chatting” section that is there specifically for Twitch streamers who just happen to find themselves in a situation where a bathing suit is more or less required. The platform has also acknowledged the confusion, however under the sites current ‘Nudity & Attire’ and ‘Sexually Suggestive Content’ policies, streamers “may appear in swimwear in contextually appropriate situations” including at the beach or in a hot tub.On May 21st, after making made headlines for removing ad revenue from Twitch celeb “Amouranth” after being reported for her frequent hot tub streams, Twitch decided to announce the creation of a new category: “Pools, Hot Tubs and Beaches”. While the streaming site has guidelines about sexually suggestive content, Twitch has said that “being found to be sexy by others is not against our rules” and it “will not take action” against anyone for their “perceived attractiveness”. In a new blog post, Twitch said: “Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen and had many conversations about Hot Tub streams, and we want to address it candidly.” However, following the controversy, Twitch has since released a new dedicated category called ‘Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches’. The conversation has also caused confusion as Twitch has strict guidelines when it comes to sexually suggestive content and nudity on its platform. READ MORE: Twitch announced worldwide rollout of new lower ‘Local Subscription’ pricesĮarlier this week, Twitch removed advertisement monetisation from one of the platform’s top female streamers, Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, after her streams were deemed “not advertiser-friendly” after she was taking part in the trend dubbed the “hot tub meta”.Twitch has launched a brand new ‘hot tubs’ streaming category following a recent controversy and pushback from advertisers.
