• grendel@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I agree that 95% of the reason is just men being uncomfortable with women having success in “their” space

    You ever watched those camgirl streams? They’re not having success in “men” space. Some of them literally coming straight from porn to expand audience. If twitch is about gaming, how forty minute breaks “gone to change bikini” is gaming? I keep getting recommended streams like that again and again even though I keep pressing “not interested”, sometimes I click on these streams and go straight to clips to see whether that person does anything but being naked, and recently I found one of the most popular clips from one of those channels that was with a girl in a public place being half naked and some little child asking her “are you a camgirl?” At least that was fun.

    Sexual content is not the only thing that taints twitch. Various “political analysis” trash streams are also there. This is just not appropriate for a gaming platform. And twitch was like specifically created and stemed off from justintv to be a gaming platform.

    I agree that 95% of the reason is just men being uncomfortable with women having success

    back to your argument. There are thousands of women streaming on twitch who are actual gamers or do gaming related stuff. Damn, there’s even ex-pornstar Sasha Grey who’s just actually gaming. There’s absolutely zero issues with girls on the platform, the issue is complete derailement of the platform with softporn content (and shitty politics, but nobody cares about that).

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      7 months ago

      Twitch is no longer a gaming only platform. It went full circle back to being an everything streaming site. People chat, people draw, people code, people make stuff with their hands. It’s been that way for awhile.

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      7 months ago

      A lot of the most popular streamers regularly have long gaps with the camera pointing at three empty chair so don’t act like having a brief break is crime of the century, Sips is away for about fifteen minutes an hour making tea or whatever he does - and that’s only real streamers, someone like xqc will watch an entire someone else’s content while out the room then come in and eat silently while he watches another whole someone else’s content.

      I know a lot of people here will never be able to accept it but a lot of the bikini streamers are actually really interesting conversationalists too, like she’s not someone I watch often but amouranth ripping the trolls can genuinely be the funniest thing I see in a day - she and many others are generally interesting, intelligent, and insightful – and no before people imply it just because they have boobs doesn’t mean they can’t be smart.

      Compared to Charlie, xqc, and most the popular streamers they put a lot more effort into their streams. Depending who you watch and what your tastes are they can make great background streams, I’ve discovered a lot of great music certainly more than any local radio station.

      It’s funny to me seeing people making a show of saying they’d never watch such content then acting like they know exactly what it’s like - what they mean is they assume anything with an attractive woman is terrible because attractive women are nothing but dumb sex objects.

      If you want Charlie to be able to tell dirty jokes, make god slap, talk about wild internet drama, and play violent video games without getting censored then don’t side with the over boiled morality police, support the troops on the vanguard in the struggle for artistic liberty – the bikini hulahoop girls are fighting for your freedom.