Twitch is an American video live-streaming platform that offers music, original material, and “in real life” feeds. It also focuses on video live streaming, including eSports championship broadcasts. Twitch Interactive, a division of Amazon.com, Inc., operates Twitch.
Video games are Twitch’s main focus. Users have the option to engage with other viewers, watch others play games, or broadcast live gameplay to a global audience. There are many different games that are streamed; the most watched ones are Grand Theft Auto V, Teamfight Tactics, League of Legends, and Fortnite.
Additionally, memberships and Twitch collaborations offer revenue opportunities for streamers. According to reports, “Ninja,” the most popular user on the platform, earns over $500,000 per month and has over 11 million followers.
Twitch’s new artistic nudity policy
Twitch recently announced that some s*xual material contents that were previously forbidden would now be permitted provided that they are properly labeled. This step has been taken due to a popular stream with an OnlyFans model.
The updated guidelines allow “artistic” representations of “fully exposed female-presenting breasts and/or genitals or buttocks regardless of gender” as long as the content creators label the content as having s*xual elements. This can be achieved by drawing, animating, or sculpting the image. Masturbation and fictitious s*xual acts are still forbidden, though.
Twitch Updated their Sexual Content Policy:
– Changes: Certain content now allowed with labels
– Artistic Nudity: Permitted under Sexual Themes Label
– Game Nudity: Contextual; labels necessary
– Body Painting: Acceptable with appropriate label
– Mature Games: Label generally… pic.twitter.com/2wKyAONuVJ— Dexerto (@Dexerto) December 13, 2023
“There is a thriving artist community on Twitch, and this policy was overly punitive and did not reflect the impact of the content,” Twitch said in a blog post.
As was to be expected, once the word “Artistic Nudity” started to trend on X/Twitter and other platforms, users had a great time playing with the new parameters. @ThatOneMate55 responded to these changes and tweeted on X, “Twitch is so finished”.
Twitch is so finished😭 pic.twitter.com/7pH9mCjMOO
— Mate (@ThatOneMate55) December 13, 2023
Streamers still cannot be completely or partially nude on Twitch. It only permits, under the heading “S*xual Themes,” content that “deliberately highlight breasts, buttocks, or pelvic region,” in addition to “body writing” and “body painting” on “female-presenting breasts and/or buttocks regardless of gender.” Furthermore, unlabeled dances like “twerking, grinding, and pole dancing” are now allowed.
As for games that “featuring nudity, pornography, s*x or s*xual violence as a core focus or feature,” Twitch’s policy has not changed and they are still strictly forbidden.