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While I can see this being annoying to streamers, it seems like a net positive overall. I'd be interested to hear the perspective of someone who's vehemently against this, to help me understand why.
Why would this be annoying to streamers? Honest question, I'm not a Twitch user.
Would it be the softcore porn "gamer girls" being called out separately from eg. horror games?
There is a difference between gamer girls playing horror games and professional models licking audio testing equipment for hours on end.
The article points out that the threshold to require each of the new labels is a bit nebulous, and that they're allowing a 30 day grace period for them to test the waters and find out where the line is drawn... while the safer path is probably just to err on the side of tagging it if you're unsure, I'm sure some advertisers wouldn't want to be associated with some labels, so they probably would rather toe the line than step across it. (I'm not a streamer, though, so I'm just guessing.)
My guess is that people who are against it are expecting to make less money because advertisers will be able to say they don't want to be on streams that are labeled "x".
Certainly not "vehemently opposed". But I can imagine issues arising where streamers make less money when streaming mature content. For example, I think youtube requires signing in to view certain adult videos. Will this be the same for twitch? If so, that could result in less ad revenue for the steamer.
Don't they already have to tag mature content as such? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the situation, I thought they currently had a "Mature" tag that encompassed all of this, and this is just breaking it out into individual tags for e.g. bad language, violence, and nudity, so they can be more specific about the nature of the mature content.