I’ve thought this too, to some extent. The thing is though, twitch has a lot of young viewers. I don’t know the numbers but I’m sure ther are also a lot of young men. This kind of behavior can be predatory (it’s debatable how much I blame the streamers for this), and can install some anti-social beliefs about how relationships with people work.
To be clear, I don’t think this is something that should be banned, nor do I think it’s something that we make compromising laws for to fix.
I think Twitch knows what happens on their platform, who their audience is, and tries to have it both ways: one where it’s a platform for everyone, and one where you’re encouraged to pay money to watch someone “practice yoga” or stand in a hot tub. I don’t think culturally, we should be passing that off as a “normal” thing to do.
If you’re an adult who wants to pay titty streamers all day, and have a healthy understanding of the whole situation, that’s your business 🙂
Why do you want twitch to be “taken more seriously?” Who cares? Let people enjoy things.
I’ve thought this too, to some extent. The thing is though, twitch has a lot of young viewers. I don’t know the numbers but I’m sure ther are also a lot of young men. This kind of behavior can be predatory (it’s debatable how much I blame the streamers for this), and can install some anti-social beliefs about how relationships with people work.
TL;DR: It’s possible this harms immature minds.
This suspiciously sounds like the think of the children argument that was used to try to ban porn.
To be clear, I don’t think this is something that should be banned, nor do I think it’s something that we make compromising laws for to fix.
I think Twitch knows what happens on their platform, who their audience is, and tries to have it both ways: one where it’s a platform for everyone, and one where you’re encouraged to pay money to watch someone “practice yoga” or stand in a hot tub. I don’t think culturally, we should be passing that off as a “normal” thing to do.
If you’re an adult who wants to pay titty streamers all day, and have a healthy understanding of the whole situation, that’s your business 🙂
Twitch isn’t letting us enjoy streamers who make much smaller rule violations.
Thats true and that sucks, but I’m not sure taking twitch more seriously will remedy that problem.
Twitch should take Twitch seriously.