I guess technically this should go in the “Everything Else” area of the forum.
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Launching today is an all-new content category called IRL designed specifically to allow you to talk to your community and share your thoughts, opinions, feelings, and everyday life. Like a vlog, you can now interact with your audience in a one-to-many style, live or recorded, even when not playing a game. This includes sharing experiences and events with viewers live or with pre-recorded videos. Anything and everything you’re interested in can potentially become a topic of a stream.[/quote]
Ah, now we can go back to the amateur porn streams.
Didn’t twitch.tv evolve from a lifeblogging site called Justin.tv, assumedly started by some dude named Justin who thought people wanted to watch him watch TV and scratch his balls? Circle of life, yo.
Weren’t there already a number of lady Twitch “game” streamers that wore extremely tight low cut tops and stuff like that? Nothing against it, just saying it is always a factor…
Absolutely not cool of you to tar “essentially every female twitch streamer” with the same brush. It’s patently not true and just shows another example of reducing a whole group to bad stereotypes. Common these days.
I mostly watch Hearthstone streams, so my experience is limited to that game, but the most popular women streaming there (Hafu, Eloise are two examples of the most popular and skilled women streaming the game) don’t pull that stuff, and at times they catch hell because of it (there’s a 2016 Hafu interview on this and other related types of harassment experienced by women on Twitch and in eSports, linked below)
That’s not to say that there haven’t been drive-by boob-streamers trying to cash in on Hearthstone’s popularity, but the Hearthstone Twitch community is a ruthless bunch of knuckleheads that will shred a streamer over the slightest misplay, so these types of streamers just don’t last long. Sometimes a boobstreamer can actually succeed at the game (Mira as an example), but the community at large still resents the shit out of her and because of that she still doesn’t get 10% of Hafu’s viewers on average… while the viewers she does get tend to harrass her non-stop anyway. But, it still pays enough to keep her logging in for it.
I just went to twitch to check and didn’t see any female hearthstone streamers in the top 15 or so. It’s not exactly primetime in the US, maybe that’s it.
It’s 6am, none of the people I mentioned typically stream at this time. Hafu is in California and typically streams afternoon and evenings local time. Eloise usually streams from China (but streams in English and usually on NA Hearthstone servers) starting around 1-3am PST (her times and locations change as she flies around the world hosting and competing in various Hearthstone tournaments). Mira, I have no idea when she streams any more since I don’t explicitly follow her like the first two streamers. But she used to stream 10am or so PST, but half the time she’s in Russia, so I don’t even know if she’s ranking on NA or not at the moment.
I decided to solve the mystery for myself and the only gratuitous skin I could find was in the IRL channel which seems to be overflowing with gorgeous albeit plastic surgery enhanced Korean women. Everywhere else seems to be your standard nerds.
I saw Hafu somehow back when I watched Twitch for a couple months; she’s definitely a great player and I even recommended her to a guy I knew who was getting into Twitch gaming.
Boobie streaming definitely happens but there are degrees of it, and to be fair, it happens on YouTube as well. But it’s not as prominent as I would have guessed either and most Games are still dominated by Pros of whatever gender.
I don’t see why they would even try to block that sort of thing. They should embrace it, as long as there’s no actual nudity it’s not like most people would find it appropriate jerk fodder in 2018. I mean you can stream the most hardcore porn for free in HD, full penetration, midgets, POV, classy, transexuals, pretty much everything is available at the stroke of a button. So to speak.
