{"id":24951,"date":"2021-06-22T06:19:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T06:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/twitch-suspends-two-popular-female-creators-over-sexy-asmr-streams.html"},"modified":"2021-06-22T06:19:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T06:19:46","slug":"twitch-suspends-two-popular-female-creators-over-sexy-asmr-streams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/twitch-suspends-two-popular-female-creators-over-sexy-asmr-streams.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitch suspends two popular female creators over sexy ASMR streams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Popular Twitch streamers Amouranth<\/a> and Indiefoxx<\/a> are the two latest casualties of Twitch\u2019s ongoing battle to enforce its own confusing rules around sexually suggestive content.<\/p>\n

Both creators were suspended<\/a> following ASMR streams that pushed the bounds of Twitch\u2019s community guidelines forbidding content that isn\u2019t quite<\/em> sexual in nature but is still too risqu\u00e9 for a platform deeply self-conscious about its advertising business. The Amazon-owned company declined to comment on the length of the bans or what provoked them, but pointed TechCrunch toward its rules on sexual content.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible that both Amouranth (Kaitlyn Siragusa) and Indiefoxx (Jenelle Dagres) will be reinstated Monday, 72 hours after their Friday ban, but both channels remained unavailable at the time of writing. Siragusa confirmed to Polygon<\/a> that she was suspended after a stream in which she did yoga poses while making ear-licking sounds into a microphone.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udc97 4K ASMR EAR LICKING! YOGA POSE \ud83d\udc97https:\/\/t.co\/eXShIudnFP<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Indiefoxx \ud83c\udf19 OF (@indiefoxxlive) June 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The so-called \u201cASMR-meta<\/a>\u201d on Twitch, where streamers boost their views by whispering into their microphones or producing licking sounds, sometimes while holding yoga poses, follows the controversy around hot tubs on Twitch<\/a> that exploded last month. In both instances, some Twitch creators believe that the platform\u2019s rules are selectively enforced.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith ASMR meta and crazy yoga poses, believe it or not I watched two other girls doing it to the tune of 2-5k views without any bans for months before I folded the activity into ASMR creating the infamous \u2018ASMR\u2019 meta,\u201d Siragusa wrote on Twitter. \u201cThose other streamers are still unbanned and continue to do it. My sin was taking inaction as a sign of tacit acceptance, and then blowing the top off the secret and hitting 30k viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because both the ASMR meta and the hot tub meta were dominated by female streamers, the whole situation has attracted even more misogyny within the Twitch community, where female streamers are still regularly harassed off the platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I will always find it ENORMOUSLY IRONIC that the generation that fought \u201cviolent video games don\u2019t cause an uptick in gun\/violent crimes\u201d(I agree), instantly turn tail succumb to a bad take like \u201cHOT TUB\/ASMR GIRLS LITERALLY CREATE CREEPERS that plague other girl creators!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kaitlyn (@wildkait) June 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Twitch expands its rules against hate and abuse to include behavior off the platform<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In a blog addressing the proliferation of women streaming from pools and hot tubs at the time, Twitch wrote that \u201cbeing found to be sexy by others is not against our rules, and Twitch will not take enforcement action against women, or anyone on our service, for their perceived attractiveness.\u201d The company clarified that while a bathing suit in a bedroom might break the rules, \u201ccontextually appropriate\u201d swimwear is allowed.<\/p>\n

Twitch also acknowledged the complexity of its own difficult to parse rules<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Our intention with the Sexually Suggestive policy was to draw a line on content that is overtly or explicitly sexually suggestive, not to ban all content that could be viewed as sexually suggestive \u2013 but we acknowledge that our rules are not as clear as they could be.<\/p>\n

Prohibiting every form of content that could be interpreted as suggestive would also result in far more restrictions on the video games and premium content that we currently allow, especially considering the ways that female characters are sometimes objectified or presented in a sexualized manner.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Its solution at the time was to create a \u201cPools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches\u201d category where that content could live. Most of Twitch\u2019s categories are dedicated to specific games, with most of the platform\u2019s nongaming streams listed in the popular catch-all category \u201cJust Chatting.\u201d<\/p>\n

ASMR has its own category, with 2.4 million followers, encompassing ear-tingling ASMR streams that don\u2019t push the boundaries of Twitch\u2019s rules with the more recent crop of those that do. So far, instead of building out a more thoughtful way to corral sexually suggestive content, the company is opting to punish anybody who it decides crosses the line. But it\u2019s possible that could all change: Last month, Twitch said it was working on new policies to further clarify the rules on sexually suggestive content.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Twitch \u2014 and for the female creators disproportionately affected by its uneven policies \u2014 the abundance of ear-licking streams suggests that until then, the company will be making these same determinations over and over as it tries to draw a line within a gray area of its own making.<\/p>\n

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Twitch expands its rules against hate and abuse to include behavior off the platform<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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