Once the year 2077 turns around, it seems like people don’t beat a tab with undressed cocks, tits and butts. However, 2020 is still an issue, especially on Twitch, where nudity on screen often results in temporary or indefinite suspensions. But the platform makes exceptions for big games, with Ciberpunk 2077 being the last to get a free pass to combine semi-free sex with their extremely gratuitous violence. This has resulted in a wide range of Twitch clips with hundreds of thousands of views focused on sex and nudity.
How Vici was reported last week, streamers have no problem streaming sexual content to Ciberpunk 2077, although Twitch rules claim that “games with nudity, pornography, sex or sexual violence as a focus or basic function are totally prohibited” and, in the past, the platform has gone so far as to prohibit specific games that include sex and / or nudity. This is a double clear level: big budget games, such as Cyberpunk, The Wizard 3, i big car thief V may represent sexually explicit themes and themes, but if smaller independent games do, either for pornographic purposes or as more deliberate explorations of sex, romance, curiosity, and so on.—Currents must strive to avoid nudity or risk losing their channels. Many run away from the risk. Smaller games, in turn, losing the potentially huge amount of visibility Twitch offers.
And yet, despite this effort to keep nudity off the platform, Twitch is currently overflowing it, specifically because of this Ciberpunk 2077. If we look Ciberpunk 2077clip directories, nudity is fundamental in countless clips. I scrolled down for 30 consecutive seconds and it was a future flesh for what it looked like.
Of these risky clips, there are five the most viewed of all on Twitch in the last seven days. The Twitch current top clip sees Lengyel’s unlikely superstar Felix “xQc” express a shock when he accidentally triggers a sex scene with a male character. It has about 450,000 views. He second most popular clip it’s from Twitch’s partner, Kyle, who acts falsely by portraying a “small” penis from the game. It has almost 350,000 views. A little further down is the Twitch star turned into the Mixer star turned into the Twitch star (again) Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek adjusting the slider of your character’s penis in the character creator. This clip has almost 220,000 views. A few slots below, there is Lengyel to judge images of penis in the game. Nearly 200,000 views. Below that is a Twitch star clip Imane “Pokimane” Years shouting and asking “I will be banned” after showing the breasts to the character creator. This clip is close to 130,000 views. This is just the tip of the iceberg, and many others are hovering just below the threshold of Twitch’s top 20.
Twitch said Vici that streamers can play Cyberpunk as long as they “advance naturally through things like character personalization and don’t spend significant periods of time focusing on sexual content or nudity,” but it doesn’t seem to have prevented viewers and viewers from converting content and nudity in an excessive portion of the program. This, in itself, is not necessarily a problem; streamers can mark their broadcasts as aimed at a mature audience, and many do. The problem is that Twitch doesn’t want to be naked on their platform; it is a retrograde policy caused unnecessary headaches, especially for female coils—But this is just the clearest possible example of how money and eyeballs magically make these rules disappear.
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So now we find ourselves in a dirty cyberpunk alley and listening to the distance of an awkward question: What sense did all these rules make in the first place? Twitch has not been irreparably ruined by the presence of a lot of nudity in recent days, and even if the company would still prefer to keep sexual content limited for legal and advertising reasons (or whatever), no is current. in fact, a policy of intolerance is just an interesting cooling of the smaller interesting games in favor of the big ones that, for example, put dildos everywhere because they can.
It’s time for Twitch to reevaluate its policy, to allow at least more games to feature nudity selectively. While not a completely analogous example, Valve has done so with Steam, though it has extremely mixed results. The alternative is that every time a game like Cyberpunk comes out and allows streamers to play with their virtual genitals freeing himself from the cruel restrictions of clothing, everyone will pay attention to this and overload the platform with clips that present nudity. After all, it’s not just that nudity is outrageous on Twitch; it is also new. Allow more nudity and reduce novelty.
For the time being, however, the double standard remains. The ball is on the Twitch court, but when has it not been?