The Sun and The Air

Twitch's not-porn streams

Every time I open twitch at least one of the 6 Recommended Channels is one of those "girl doing just-barely-not-sex-acts in a thumbnail-friendly way" streams (which the record will show I've never once clicked on), and I have to wonder what the end-game is here

I can't be mad at them for doing this on a gaming website - the website seems fine with it, and these women open themselves up to a lot of risk doing it. Get that bread, and whatnot.

idk it just feels like an arms race, and the optics of these channels being so heavily recommended indicates that twitch is losing it. I've said for years that twitch should just be adults only and stop with the coy "please don't do actual porn but honestly be as porn-adjacent with it as you want as long as we can't make out any of the traditional sex organs in the video" bullshit.

It just seems like losing this arms race would be worse for twitch than giving up on the ad revenue of children - who are also watching these streams because twitch's age protections are appalling. I can see this getting extremely messy as a result of twitch's cowardice.

#cohost #twitch