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Twitch's new policy stated "simp", "Incel", and "virgin" are now prohibited during in streaming.
- Thread starter Futabaisthebest<3
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whatever.
grow some balls and start banning the streamers who say and cultivate toxic bullshit.
of course that's a whole lot of the competitive community soooooo....
grow some balls and start banning the streamers who say and cultivate toxic bullshit.
of course that's a whole lot of the competitive community soooooo....
Think about what you just said
B O N K
Anyways, what a stupid waste of energy on Twitch's part, who had "Simp banned on Twitch" on their 2020 bingo card?
Vtubers on youtube already use it to stream and it seems to be going pretty good based on the amount of money they get.
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/in...earner-is-virtual-youtuber-kiryu-coco/.163103
Youtube has had live streams for gaming for, like, ever.
They won't cut into that cash cow unless it starts affecting their bottom dollar.
Man, people really want to say 'simp' huh?
Can't go to any stream without someone dying to use that word in chat
Erm.....
Can't go to any stream without someone dying to use that word in chat
Erm.....
They did, it's what YouTube Gaming was, went nowhere though and they just kinda let it slowly vade away, because people just used YouTube like they always did. YouTube game streaming is absolutely booming at the moment though (like the biggest streamers are on YouTube now, multiple 100k+ concurrent viewer streamers), so they should definitely work on the layout, currently findability is still pretty terrible.
Yeah this is all strange.
The first time I heard the word "simp" was back in the 90's when I was a kid. Listening to UGK, specifically Pimp C's verses. It was his favorite thing to say lmao.
It's crazy to see how it's been co-opted by white people and now... banned? Should us black folks protest about this? This is wild hahaha.
Smh the gentrification of the word simp. Also is it true that the n-word isn't against ToS? That can't be right... right?
They allow black content creators to say it I'm pretty sure, at least the one ending in "a", which might be why it's not against ToS. White people have been banned in the past, but not always, seems to depend on how much it blows up if Twitch will react or not, but even then some high profile cases that were allowed to slide.
I'm going to be honest, 'incel' has a different connotation than the other two. Removing it from emotes, I assume is fine, but emotes are always going to be misused when they can to denigrate others. There's a reason there are very few emotes approved in GDQ's channel just as an example. CmonBruh has been misused as a racist emote since Twitch started. It's not racist in and of itself, but in the way it's spammed when a black person is on the stream, it becomes that way. So with anything, Twitch needs to actually look into why some of its biggest content creators are toxic and have chats full of the types of people that do this. The actual words/emotes aren't really the issue I don't think.
The issues are many of the biggest streamers on Twitch are toxic and either encourage this behavior, or like Lirik, completely just let it go. Lirik has commented on how hard it's been being of a certain ethnicity on Twitch and yet he lets rampant transphobia happen in his channel with little comment. I was watching when he did the Claire quest line in Cyberpunk and my god it was horrendous. Is it fair to hold that against him? Maybe, maybe not, but he's also commented on games like The Last of Us Part II that it had too much gay stuff or something such. Or like xQCow who, while I find amusing from time to time, calls well built women, 'fridges'. Like at some point, you have to look at the audience you have cultivated. I don't think Twitch understands its own audience when they make decisions like these.
When these are some of your biggest successes, I don't know man, like maybe banning these terms is the wrong way to combat toxicity?
Any black streamer's channel seems to be fine, but otherwise I'd assume it's automoded out.
The issues are many of the biggest streamers on Twitch are toxic and either encourage this behavior, or like Lirik, completely just let it go. Lirik has commented on how hard it's been being of a certain ethnicity on Twitch and yet he lets rampant transphobia happen in his channel with little comment. I was watching when he did the Claire quest line in Cyberpunk and my god it was horrendous. Is it fair to hold that against him? Maybe, maybe not, but he's also commented on games like The Last of Us Part II that it had too much gay stuff or something such. Or like xQCow who, while I find amusing from time to time, calls well built women, 'fridges'. Like at some point, you have to look at the audience you have cultivated. I don't think Twitch understands its own audience when they make decisions like these.
When these are some of your biggest successes, I don't know man, like maybe banning these terms is the wrong way to combat toxicity?
Any black streamer's channel seems to be fine, but otherwise I'd assume it's automoded out.
Allowing black creators to use it makes sense enough for me. Thanks for the info
The women streamers I've seen have normalized simp, and all use it in a positive manner. I saw another say that some guys do offline donations instead, which is probably due to it. Simps are kinda like whales in F2P games. Twitch is def trying to protect the whale.
On a side note, why haven't they done anything about the r-word, autistic, and other ableist slurs? Countless big streamers throw these words around and think it's hilarious.
I feel like this - once again - is something for optics rather than actual substance. Simp and incel are used so often that they mean nothing anymore, and almost every time I see it used it's in a jokey, ironic sort of way, never seriously. Virgin is the only one I can see being used as an actual insult, but that largely depends on context which... isn't one of Twitch's strong suits.
The banning of the words is whatever, it's the big song and dance they do that's frustrating. Banning these "nothing" words don't do anything to fix the actual problems the platform faces. Namely the toxic culture in some places and the DMCA stuff that's been going on.
The banning of the words is whatever, it's the big song and dance they do that's frustrating. Banning these "nothing" words don't do anything to fix the actual problems the platform faces. Namely the toxic culture in some places and the DMCA stuff that's been going on.
It's outright hilarious that they are so open about banning words that might hurt the feelings of their self-presumed majority male donating audience, meanwhile they continue to do nothing to actually protect women and minorities on their platform, while simultaneously constantly cracking down on the way that women dress on their platform.
And by hilarious I mean sad and fucked up.
Probably the biggest irony is that the majority of the people they're defending from being called incels/virgins/simps are also probably the people who most often harass people on twitch by calling others incels/virgins/simps/thots/cucks/whatever.
And by hilarious I mean sad and fucked up.
Probably the biggest irony is that the majority of the people they're defending from being called incels/virgins/simps are also probably the people who most often harass people on twitch by calling others incels/virgins/simps/thots/cucks/whatever.
I just don't understand why they are banning simp. Also what about stop wasting your time doing this and instead create some tool to help anyone affected by DMCA issues?