twitch only cares about view counts and appearing to have integrity to advertisers, but mostly viewer counts
Yup. And the only reason advertisers would care is if it would hurt their standing with the general public. The vast, vast majority of people don't really know anything about it, thus pretty much nobody in the chain cares
All titty streamers on the front page even though you've never watch one? Me too brother.
This is intentional, don't kid yourself... They've been allowing this for quite a long time because above all else, views are king
every generic front page of every content platform is garbage.
youtube, facebook, twitter, reddit, twitch, lemmy, mastodon, instagram, tiktok, imgur, github, stackoverflow...
there is no exception. if it's not curated to your logged in user preferences by default, it's a dumpster fire every time.
Even if they dress like Vincent Adultman, I’ll never take people watching other people play video games seriously.
Sports fans entered the chat.... seriously it's literally the same thing... and why would anyone watch an action movie, just go out and do it.....
Stfu, your comment pisses me off
What about watching half naked people licking a microphone for hours, that better?
The complaint I've heard is that Twitch suspends and penalizes streamers for minor violations of their ToS all the time but leave the quasi-porn channels alone because they rake in the views.
This is a bit tangential, but I came across a religious woman on Reddit a while back that regularly uploaded videos to YouTube which consisted of her reading from the Bible and giving her own lectures on Christianity and godly morals while wiggling her toes in the camera. She had a decent following of people pretending that they loved her spirituality while "ignoring" the inherently fetishizing sexual nature.
Her channel was completely devoid of any age restrictions or content warning.
It's a smart angle to be honest.
Sure, Twitch's imbalanced application of ToS is ridiculous, but these streamers don't infuriate me for showing skin.
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 🙂
Thats true and that sucks, but I'm not sure taking twitch more seriously will remedy that problem.