Alinity thinks new Twitch category could end infamous \u2018hot tub meta\u2019 Twitch \/ AlinityPopular Twitch streamer Natalia \u2018Alinity\u2019 Mogollon has shared her thoughts on Twitch\u2019s implementation of a \u2018hot tub\u2019 category, suggesting it could even end the meta on the streaming platform. We\u2019ve seen trends come and go over the years on Twitch, but the recent \u2018hot tub meta\u2019 has to be up there with the most controversial. Content creators simply stream from a hot tub \u2013 often indoors, primarily because it allows them to wear a swimsuit in the context. The trend was amassing thousands of viewers on Twitch, but also criticism from some who said it was simply being used to exploit Twitch\u2019s contextual exceptions to their sexually suggestive content policies. On May 21, nearly two months after hot tub streams really took off, Twitch confirmed the addition of a new \u2018pools, hot tubs and beaches\u2019 category, meaning hot tub streamers will no longer dominate the \u2018Just Chatting\u2019 section of the platform. Alinity supports new category The news largely received positive feedback from the community. Alinity, streaming on May 21, joined those praises and described it as a \u201csmart\u201d thing for Twitch to do. However, she also suggested that it could end the meta entirely. \u201cThat is actually really good. That\u2019s actually a really good thing you guys. It\u2019s very smart of them [Twitch] to do that,\u201d she said. \u201cDo you guys want the opinion of a person that\u2019s been on Twitch for 8 years? \u201cBecause I can give you my personal opinion on it: it\u2019s gonna stop the meta. The reason why people do it is because of browser placement. Browser placement on a channel with 25,000 viewers is not high enough for it to be worth streaming on. It\u2019s a good thing.\u201d Topic occurs 3:15:00 to 3:18:30 Alinity is essentially arguing that the category and its placement on the Twitch home page will affect the popularity of the streams inside it, with Just Chatting and other titles almost certain to feature more obviously. Whether it does affect the popularity of hot tub streams remains to be seen, but they\u2019re now available all in one place on the streaming platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alinity thinks new Twitch category could end infamous \u2018hot tub meta\u2019 Twitch \/ AlinityPopular Twitch streamer Natalia \u2018Alinity\u2019 Mogollon has shared her thoughts on Twitch\u2019s implementation of a \u2018hot tub\u2019 category, suggesting it could even end the meta on the streaming platform. We\u2019ve seen trends come and go over the years on Twitch, but the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}