I'll never understand how Twitch became as big as a thing as it is.
"So you're telling me that instead of watching a fifteen minutes of nicely edited video of content I can watch for hours of a greasy man in a tank top play a game for four hours and get fifteen minutes of good content in the time span? "(Literally) "Take my money!"
64They should change the name to Twatch.
I'll see myself out.
Buy my girlfriend a pregnancy test while I'm out...
27I don't get some of these comments. You can want to avoid random nudity without bring a prude or jealous.
I'd argue that a LOT of people are not interested in seeing 99.9% of the population naked, and there should be nothing wrong with that. I don't care what they look like. Sometimes people just don't want to look at rectums.
The mindset of "you have to be happy about unexpectedly seeing a stranger naked or you're a prude" also doesn't sit right with me.
I would have just stopped using twitch, personally.
25If you want video game streams then look for video games. I looked up the starcraft 2 section and there's not a single thirst trap streamer, same with the video games that I play.
People are always getting pissed off that their favorite thing no longer exists. It's still there, dummy! You just think it doesn't because complaining is more popular than talking about the things that people like.
inb4 "it's just a meme, it can't mean anything"
20And it didn't last a day.
17Well, on Twitch and YouTube and Reddit, I'm settled.
On Twitch, I never visit front-page. I follow the channels I follow.
On YouTube, I watch the subscribed channels (and recommend videos. If good, I follow).
Reddit, I don't visit All or Popular. I have the subreddits I wanna follow.
On Lemmy, it's so new that I haven't found all the places, so I go to All on Local and see what's up - like I do now.
16There's still tons of video game streamers. In fact, even if 10k titty streamers join the site, that doesn't push even a single video game streamer out.
There's a market for both things, and neither thing is eating the audience of the other.
This is all just stupid neo-puritanical pearl clutching.
A woman showing her tits on twitch isn't going to hurt you, or anyone else.
10I've personally been blamed for the fact that lascivious female streaming material shows up on my feed despite the facts that I'm not sexually interested in females and the fact that I've never even seen a Twitch.
9Thirst trap .
8destroyed
5Wait, did twitch become something that interests me when I wasn’t looking?
2I don't see a problem?
2It's been a long time since I've actually watched Twitch and I actually thought it was a really cool idea to start with. Back then I got pulled in from following competitive StarCraft. By the time I got there SC2 was on the decline but LoL was taking off. I liked watching the big LoL competitions but spent most my time watching competitive StarCraft II. Shout out to Incontrol, RIP, his casts got me into it and if there was still quality content I could see myself following again.
Eventually though you would just start following the trending streams. After every big release there would be new streamers popping off and it was fun to watch. Slowly the bots got more and more obnoxious and you realized the trending shit was bought and paid for. Then, a site where LoL streams was the central draw, camgirls started showing up. They created the IRL channel and influencers took control.
In a world where competitive gaming was taken seriously by the viewers and game studios fully supported the competive community twitch might have turned out different. For now, I think about how to get that OG twitch feeling back.
2Is it sad? If there are issues with this streaming any sort of sexual content must make just that much more than streaming games or any clean entertainment. I like crankin' my hog as much as the next packmate but gob daggit, thats insightful.
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