Twitch art streamers banned en masse as \u201cartistic nudity\u201d gets misunderstood Unsplash.com: Kelly Sikkema \/ TwitchArt streamers on Twitch are getting banned en masse after the platform allowed \u2018artistic nudity\u2019 in its guidelines, causing the site\u2019s Art category to be overrun with explicit content. On December 13, Twitch made big changes to its guidelines on nudity and sexual content, laying out several adjustments in a lengthy article. In the article, Twitch clarified that \u2018artistic depictions of nudity\u2019 are now allowed, provided they have a Sexual Themes label. On top of that, Twitch also allowed \u201cfictionalized (drawn, animated, or sculpted) fully exposed female-presenting breasts and\/or genitals or buttocks regardless of gender\u201d with a label. It wasn\u2019t long before Twitch\u2019s art category was filled with explicit streams, with users all over the net sounding off about the many sexualized anime, Vtuber, and even furry art broadcasts they were seeing on the platform. However, it seems as though quite a few of these streamers are getting hit with the ban hammer in the wake of Twitch\u2019s new changes, causing chaos across social media. Twitch art streamers banned en masse amid new TOS changes Just a day after Twitch\u2019s new changes went into effect, art streamers started sounding off that they\u2019d been banned. A quick peek at the StreamerBans Twitter\/X page shows that a slew of artists on the site have been suspended on Dec 14. A few of these streamers claimed that they were drawing a nude character on stream when they got banned, despite allegedly correctly labeling their stream with \u2018Sexual Themes.\u2019 Other artists who were banned claimed that their suspension is only for three days. This latest ban wave has caused a fair amount of confusion among art streamers, who feel the new guidelines are still lacking clarity on what can or cannot be shown on the platform. Twitch itself stated in its post that \u201cThere is a thriving artist community on Twitch, and this policy was overly punitive and did not reflect the impact of the content\u201d \u2014 referring to its guidelines that previously prohibited such content. For now, it\u2019s unclear if Twitch will amend their guidelines or craft another statement addressing the confusion. For more Twitch news and info, keep it locked to Dexerto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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