The current state of Twitch

Ive seen 2, max.

If this is your current state of twitch, its because you keep clicking on boobi. Quit clicking on boobi if you dont want to be seeing boobi.

- I stream on Twitch. I see mostly video games. So I dunno? There are always randoms. But very rarely do I see the bikini stuff.
Just not true. I don’t have a twitch account and visited to see what it’s all about and it’s all over. Even if you peek inside the just chatting category it’s a huge majority of the top content
Of anything, what you state is the result of content filtering for yourself and not for everyone at large.
Yeah, OP has "why do these homosexuals keep sucking my cock?" energy.

They should change the name to Twatch.

I'll see myself out.

Buy my girlfriend a pregnancy test while I'm out...

I don't get some of these comments. You can want to avoid random nudity without bring a prude or jealous.

I'd argue that a LOT of people are not interested in seeing 99.9% of the population naked, and there should be nothing wrong with that. I don't care what they look like. Sometimes people just don't want to look at rectums.

The mindset of "you have to be happy about unexpectedly seeing a stranger naked or you're a prude" also doesn't sit right with me.

I would have just stopped using twitch, personally.

It's the internet post-2014. If you have simply never heard of someone's particular flavour of BDSM kink before, they take it like you're attacking them.
Maybe growing up in a warm, costal area makes it more common, but young women just wear similar outfits to most feminine streamers where I'm from. They usually aren't making a statement about it, it's just hot outside and they don't mind showing off. It's normal.
Some streamers do embody the meme. Some focus cameras on their ass. However, feminine streamers aren't the majority, and most of them aren't even that sexual. On a whole, men have more viewers, with almost every top streamer being male.
Part of why the discourse around sexual streamers seems so prudish is that they don't dominate on twitch. There are a few popular ones, but women don't even dominate the site; there's just more of them than in the past. Most feminine streamers aren't sexual. People see what they want to see.
The only male streamer ever suspended for showing his bare chest was crossdresser. Masculinity is normalized, so femininity is othered.
- Don't get me wrong, I'm not about telling other people how to dress or what to wear. Not at all.
  To be honest with you, I don't really go on twitch. When I made my comment, I had some of my earlier experiences with lemmy on my mind. I just turned off nsfw in my app settings though.
  My main reasoning was so that certain things didn't show up when I was showing something else to family, or if a coworker saw my phone over my shoulder. There are some jobs where you really don't want your boss to see certain things, but most other forms of slacking off are ok.
  For me, it wasn't even about anyone's chest. It was not wanting furry porn haha. They really should have thought about this before instating it.
  Now people will be upset regardless of what they do.
- dude, i'm just saying that there other places for noon-gaming stuff and those people are invading a site that was born for videogames. but then, i'm not using twitch for quite a while now since the homepage was taken over by IRL streams. I just opened twitch.tv (not logged in) a minute ago and in the homepage there's a dude sleeping (with the name of the stream "i'm only sleeping" wtf??), one deejay, someone cooking and a saxophonist...
  that's 4 streams out of 8 in the homepage that have nothing to do with gaming.

Well, on Twitch and YouTube and Reddit, I'm settled.

On Twitch, I never visit front-page. I follow the channels I follow.

On YouTube, I watch the subscribed channels (and recommend videos. If good, I follow).

Reddit, I don't visit All or Popular. I have the subreddits I wanna follow.

On Lemmy, it's so new that I haven't found all the places, so I go to All on Local and see what's up - like I do now.

Yeah, I do a similar thing with youtube and reddit. I am interested in communities of humans I like curating content and conversations. I am less interested in a robot doing so, even if it wasn’t a crap advertisement and engagement robot.
I am interested in the humans and I find it infuriating how often these websites try to shove what the robots want me to engage with down my throat while hiding access to the humans/communities I am interested in so I always have to click through to see it.
- Yeah for that reason I just have my YouTube subscription download and go to my plex server so I don't have to deal with ads or algorithms and we have a discord channel where we share interesting videos so I find a lot of my content that way. For reddit I just stopped going there after the exodus except when doing searches and I can't find what I'm looking for I'll add reddit to the search query to see the comments and hope there's an answer there

The prude subcurrent on Lemmy is apparently massive. You honestly are being hardly inconvenienced by boob streams and yet it deserves and inordinate amount of complaining. On a real impact basis, you are far more impacted by video games you aren't interested in than boob streamers.

Not interested is very different from disinterested or disgusted.
This single image really rustled your jimmies huh?
- You don't post when your jimmies are rustled?

There's still tons of video game streamers. In fact, even if 10k titty streamers join the site, that doesn't push even a single video game streamer out.

There's a market for both things, and neither thing is eating the audience of the other.

This is all just stupid neo-puritanical pearl clutching.

A woman showing her tits on twitch isn't going to hurt you, or anyone else.

You know, I don't get offended or anything. But it's impossible to mute / block streamers, and there are some particularly annoying offenders which I just don't want to see when I open twitch. Just give me the option to filter that out and I won't complain again.
- Every single time I go to watch a clip theres a ton of random partially naked people in the useless recomended section under the clip. I wish I could turn that off
- A filter is an entirely reasonable request
- This reminds me of when I used TOR to check my Facebook account after so many years. It was constantly throwing random almost-explicit-but-definitely NSFW pages at me.
  "Where did these come from? Did I accidentally subscribe at some point? Oh they all say "suggested for you."
  Can you turn off "suggested for you"? Lol no. That's how they force ads on you.
  My findings concluded as expected: All the people I knew in highschool are living their dream lives somehow, my grandma's still into weird rightoid conspiracies, and FB is a dogpoo platform I don't understand how anybody still uses lol.
- There's a block functionality that any user can use and iirc if you block a streamer they will be filtered out from your recommends/etc
  Helps to clean things up if you wanna hide the usuals you aren't a fan of
- Only a corporation would be so completely uninterested in the experience of users that they wouldn’t have a way to mute or block channels. Honestly they should be ashamed they don’t have that feature, how long has twitch been around?

Why do people watch this shit on Twitch when there are sites where you can watch live porn?

In some countries, porn is banned so they watch this.

Never seen these cam girls everyone complains about on my twitch feed. I don’t seek that stuff out though either. You can also filter out content in settings, but I’ve never had to. This “problem” seems like a non issue.

If you click "I want to watch mature content" on any profanity stream such as Soda or Summit your feed magically starts filling up with titty streamers.
The notion that you need to seek them out first is false.

Didn't Twitch take back a lot of what they said?

This makes me feel disappointed. I still remember when I discovered twitch years ago an thought "a whole site for livestreams of people playing videogames? That is so cool!". Nothing lasts forever I guess ...

Its not even changed, bud, ops tripping
Without intentional effort to prevent it, every platform eventually becomes some level of this.
Youtube: remember when they had to scrap "reply" videos because they were all borderline NSFW spam?
Onlyfans: was originally intended to be a platform for fans of fashion, idols, etc. I guess they just embraced it since then.
Tumblr: banned NSFW content because they thought they were becoming a porn site and didn't want to moderate that.
Reddit: Segregated it and relies on community moderation, because otherwise it's like half of the front page.
Twitter: it's still all over, under most popular posts. I don't know if they moderate it out or not.
- So is social media becoming porn just like entropy or something
- Reddit: intentionally curating the internet's biggest high school to onlyfans content pipeline.
  FTFY. I am genuinely shocked they haven't been called out for this yet.
- Twitter: it's still all over, under most popular posts. I don't know if they moderate it out or not.
  They used to try, now they don't at all.
- Pornification, the Carcinisation of social media ...
The fuck is this comment? Twitch is still 90%+ video games.

Yeah, they should rebrand as ’Simp Central’

Wait, did twitch become something that interests me when I wasn’t looking?

I don't see a problem?

destroyed

I'll never understand how Twitch became as big as a thing as it is.

"So you're telling me that instead of watching a fifteen minutes of nicely edited video of content I can watch for hours of a greasy man in a tank top play a game for four hours and get fifteen minutes of good content in the time span? "(Literally) "Take my money!"

Just a reminder that Twitch only shows you lots of booby streams if that's what you've been clicking on. Much like Tik Tok and Instagram.

Nope, it also recommends streams based on what other people watch from the channels you're following, it's not only based on your viewing data. Other aggregates like generally what's popular might get thrown into the mix as well.
To test this create a fresh account, follow Asmongold & let his streams run for a while, after some time the recommendations are going to be full of booby streams.
It's kind of a running joke at this point that if you watch him you're going to get booby stream recommendations because his viewers are degens.
- That's why! Once in a while I watch one of his streams for a bit when he's playing something new. Every single time I watch, I come back a day or two later and I have booby streamers in my suggestions. I'm not even remotely interested bc gay. I always have to remove the suggestion but it's a losing battle. They come back. You'd think twitch would actually cater to only what you want to see.
- You will get occasional recommendations but they won't fill your home page as many complain. You can. Also click the dots and tell them you're not interested in a recommendation and then you get less of them.
Or if you sort by view count instead of recommended
I haven't used twitch for years, and have only used it for esports streams back when I did use it. I've never watched a booby stream.
I just reinstalled the app, logged in for the first time in years, and my top recommended stream is called "2 GIRLS 1 SHOWER JUMPING JACKS" and has a topless girl in the shower painting white boxes on her arm. The game category is listed as "art".
I haven't used twitch for years, and have only used it for esports streams back when I did use it. I've never watched a booby stream.
I just reinstalled the app, logged in for the first time in years, and my top recommended stream is called "2 GIRLS 1 SHOWER" and has a topless girl with a white bar over her boobs. The game category is listed as "art".
But I like boobies