Twitch allowed nakedness, and then canceled everything

We tell you what happened

On December 13, the streaming service of Twitch announced large -scale changes in the rules for publishing sexual content. The platform, which for years blocking users for broadcasting in too open or tight -fitting clothes, took off the ban on striptease and sexual content in games. This happened after the translating of Onlyfans Morgpie, which was able to go around the system and led Stream Toples. "Cold" figured out what was now allowed on the platform.

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Updated: December 15, Twitch issued a new statement in which he canceled part of the innovations.

Twitch appeared in 2011. Initially, the service was developed as a platform for broadcasting video games, poker tournaments and musical performances. In 2017, the site announced two million streamers per month and 15 million unique users per day. Soon, the platform for promotion began to use models with Onlyfans - a service for viewing paid content through a subscription, which mainly sell erotic photos and videos.

For a long time on Twitch, in principle, it was impossible to conduct broadcasts that could have erotic subtext even with the marking of “18+”. At the same time, the platform policy, according to some users, was inconsistent. The main complaint was that the requirements regarding the publication of sexualized content were too vague and non -vague places. So, for example, users could conduct streams of video games in which there were episodes of nudity or sexual scenes, but they should not have an accent, and games with a focus on sex content were prohibited. However, even the simplest streams, according to the rules of the platform, could not lead the girls in tight or open clothes if she emphasized the breasts and buttocks.

How the restrictions were bypassed

The authors of the “adult” content for years have tried to get around these prohibitions. For example, in 2019, streams in jacuzzi and pools became popular .

The fact is that, according to the rules of the platform, it was possible to appear in the frame in a swimsuit only if the stream belongs to the category of “at the pool”. Some streamers, for example, the 27-year-old American model of Amourant (real name Caitlin Syragus), found this loophole and was able to earn on donates and new subscribers (at the same time, the streamers still earns on the Onlyfans). It was such streams that made it one of the most popular streamers on the platform.

Soon Amouranth was able to find another loophole - clothes for yoga. Twitch allows bloggers to conduct streams in open and tight -fitting sportswear. Taking advantage of this, the girl began, for example, to play Twizer on the air. For the use of such techniques, the Streamers channel was repeatedly blocked , but usually no more than a couple of days.

Many platform users were unhappy that the game service was originally used to broadcast sexual content and advocated its blocking. However, Twitch refused to block such streams because they were used by gaming bloggers that corresponded to the theme of the game platform, but they recognized that they attract the audience using their appearance.

At the end of 2023, a new way to attract the audience by pro -Erotic content, without violating the rules of the platform, was discovered by another Streamsha Asianbunnyx . The girl noticed that if the broadcasts are completely naked, cutting off the frame so that the nipples and genitals are not visible, this content would not fall under the lock . Her idea was spied on the Onlyfans-model of Morgpie, the reactions to the video of which were encircled on Twich, and also got to YouTube and Twitter.

A few days later, Twitch moderators nevertheless blocked the Asianbunnyx channels, and then Morgpie. However, shortly after this, the leadership of the platform decided to make significant changes to the rules.

“The previous policy of sexual content did not comply with the standards and led to disproportionate punishment of female streamers,” the explanation of the new rules says .

What has changed in Twitch rules

Now, with “sexual content” disclaim, streamers can :

• show in the frame in any clothing that emphasizes the chest and buttocks;
• demonstrate on the video animated and sculptural image of the chest, buttocks or genitals;
• show inscriptions and drawings on a naked body (in other words-body art);
• Erotic dancing (Tskling, Grinding and dancing on the pylon do not relate to erotic dancing in the frame, and they can be demonstrated at all without marking).

Moreover, the rules regarding sexual content in games are still quite vague. On the platform, as before, you can’t strict games in which nudity, pornography or sex is the main topic or peculiarity. However, in order to broadcast games in which nudity appears by accident, for example, Baldur's Gate 3 or “Witcher 3”, the designation “Content for adults” is enough. But where exactly the border between random scenes and the main theme goes is not clear.

In order not to disturb users who do not like such reliefs, broadcasts with notes about sexual content will not be displayed in the recommendations on the main page of the site where miniatures of video are visible, which can confuse or offend some viewers. It will be possible to see sentences with such streams only through the search.

The Morgpie account has already been removed. The revenue for the last stream before blocking she sacrificed the NGO “doctors without borders”. On Twitter, Strimmersha jokes over the fact that it was her stream for Twitch the last straw.

The abolition of innovations

On December 15, Twitch issued a new statement in which he canceled part of the innovations. Nudity on the site is now prohibited. In the accompanying commentary, the platform administration added: "We went too far with this change."