[Dismas]

Twitch banned a couple of streamers for doing ASMR with yoga pants. Before that, the craze was hot tub streams. They should probably just add a section for suggestive material or ban it altogether. Leaving it in a grey area obviously hasn't worked.

Last night, Twitch banned Amouranth, Indiefoxx, and more for their participation in the controversial new "ASMR Meta," a NSFW stream type that has taken the platform by storm after Twitch effectively killed off the Hot Tub trend a few weeks ago. So far, Twitch hasn't followed-up this action with any type of comment or statement, but that could change in the coming days, especially if this doesn't effectively kill off the trend. That said, in the meanwhile, many top Twitch streamers have reacted to the news, and many seem to be in favor of what Twitch did, or at the very least understand why the Amazon-owned platform is doing what it is doing.

Reacting to the news live, the platform's biggest streamer, xQc, didn't mince words, noting the bans were "f*****g deserved." Meanwhile, others have added that while they don't believe Amouranth, Indiefoxx, and others did anything wrong, Twitch was still right to pull the killswitch.

At the time, the aforementioned trend -- Hot Tub streams -- was fairly contentious with the Twitch community and among top Twitch streamers. However, it seems everyone -- or close to everyone -- is in agreement that this specific type of ASMR stream can't be on the platform.

Read More: https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/amoura...-reaction/

[nagyfaszu99]

they are banning them in like every 2 weeks and after few days they just remove the ban, Those 2 grills are making so much money for the twitch so these bans are just comdey for the plebs.

[Accident Man]

People are getting exhilarated that they got banned, but the genuine wager is on how many hours they will be back whilst Twitch promulgates a new category for them to keep doing it, just like with the Hot Tubs meta.

[Boudica]

I think one of the twitter comments cited in the article put it pretty well: They've done nothing wrong? Ok, so what if minor does the same thing? Is it still ok then?

While I don't really believe in censorship, I do believe I should be able to control what I want to see, and what I don't want to see. Perhaps a mature content filter/subsection would do the trick. However, I think twitch's actions aren't so much "ideology" as they are legal. I suspect they can let titty streamers do what they want, until they receive certain complaints, that may mean they have to take some kind of action or they'll get in trouble legally.

Look at the DMCA situation. Twitch doesn't hunt streamers down for playing music without a license, until they receive a notice from a record label. Then it's carnage. After a couple weeks, they aren't banning anyone again.