• TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Nah. Even before any crackdown, Twitch was still a primarily about streaming games.

    Young children shouldn’t be in chats with strangers period, but that’s not treated as a concern. Nor do people mind if they watch GTA or Mortal Kombat, or slots.

    This is not really about concerns over what sort of content children are being exposed to, it’s the same old “won’t you please think of the children” cheap moral panic of always, The outrage that if a kid sees a booby they are basically defiled forever. Then the kid goes and sees a booby anyway, in some M-rated game that is streamed with no restrictions. You can even find people drawing NSFW art,

    Rather than dancing around how much sexual content to allow, in what form, from who, maybe they could simply be thorough with age verification.

    On top of that there’s some weird gamer outrage that if the main appeal of a streamer is not a game, they are unworthy “manipulative thots”. The incel talk you see in this sort of threads is crazy.