• NuXCOM_90Percent
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    6 months ago

    I just loaded up the front page of twitch.

    I see two streams where the face cam looks like it is a major part of the stream and I am pretty sure that was just “let’s make a thumbnail”. One workout stream which was a pretty standard gym attire. The only risque thing I found was one “Bodypaint Xmas (heart emoticon) !socials” and said body paint was good enough that I genuinely had to do a triple take to figure out she was not wearing a shirt. Oh, and a sumo wrestling channel that I followed because holy shit that is awesome.

    Like most things: Your algorithm based recommendations mostly say a lot about you. Assuming you actually have a front page that looks like you left TBS on all day: Maybe stop watching the titty streams if you don’t want to see more titty streams?

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      6 months ago

      Their recommendation algorithm doesn’t care what you watch, it cares what other people who watch the same streamers as you watch. So if I watch a lot of shroud, I notice more titty streamers popping up in my recommendations because shroud viewers are more likely to watch titty streams.

      More than anything it’s annoying. I come to twitch for gaming content. I really don’t appreciate my recommended tab needing to be censored. It’s not taking away viewers, but it is making the experience on the platform worse for many.

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        6 months ago

        I still stand by not needing to actually censor something tamer than going to a public pool but…

        That is literally what the policy changes were. Tag content that maybe shouldn’t be on the front page of a site where over 50% of users are 16-44. And everyone lost their minds and killed it.

        And I am not familiar with shroud’s content. I know back in the day he was a “god gamer” but not sure what he streams these days. For what it is worth, after I “just couldn’t” with moistcritikal anymore, my youtube recommendations cleared themselves right up. Because, shockingly, watching someone who Reacts to everything means you tend to get the same trash he is Reacting to in your feed.

        Most of my twitch follows are weird channels (like watching otters play in a pool) or O(100) streams like Remap. But I’ll tune into the occasional Pokimane or Disguised Toast stream and my front page is still pretty much gaming.

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          If I’m in public browsing through twitch, when that stuff pops up, it’s sure not looking like a public pool. 99% of the time it’s a woman with the bottom of the camera cutting off her nipples and a ton of cleavage right in your face. I have NSFW blurring turned on for every other service, because who would have known, people don’t want to see that stuff in public.

          Everyone lost their mind because the problem got 100x worse the moment twitch loosened the guidelines, and there’s no way they could have subjectively moderated all of it.

          Shroud is still 100% gaming. That doesn’t matter though, because as a large streamer, there’s a lot of overlap with the teenagers watching gaming content and titty streamers.

          When I don’t watch any big streamers/fps streamers for a week or two the recommendations are almost always gone, except for the one I clicked on once out of genuine curiosity.

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            6 months ago

            Just checked the Just Chatting tab. With five streams per row

            • Victoria (930 viewerrs) is “topless meta” at the top
            • Five rows in we have “melina” at 5.6k viewers with what looks like a splash screen of her in a lacy top. Maybe it is lingerie, maybe it is just a camiosole. A lot of leg is showing, but that is the kind of shit you see on a bus.
            • Eight rows in we have my big beefy sumo boys. I will admit, I tend to not see man ass in a thong in my every day life but I don’t think people mind.
            • Also eight rows in we have some hot pussy action with an adorable kittens stream
            • And at 46 rows I gave up because that seemed high but scrolling back it was at least in the 30s. The rest are just people podcasting, Reacting to other content, or whatever

            And for funs, I checked the Beauty & Body Art tab. One person is getting a haircut, one dude (?) is face painting, and someone feminine looking looks like they are doing actual body paint but I can’t tell if they are doing pasties or what.

            So of forty-ish rows I see three things that I would give a second take if I saw it on the street. Big beefy sumo boys, cute little kitties, and a woman in a tubetop.

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      6 months ago

      It wouldn’t be on the front page anymore after the recent policy change, but if you go to “just chatting” it auto-sorts by view count, which is where most of that content is.