• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    13 hours ago

    vtubers are streamers or content creators that use a puppeted avatar, instead of camera feed of their real face/body.

    Some avatars are quite risque, but this rule apparently only applies to the avatars, while the real stuff is still fair game.

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      So the model has to meet a new decency standard that’s higher than they demand of streamers who show their real bodies?

      Sorry I’m just confused if they are saying the digital model needs to cover the caster’s real hips, or if the digital model needs to be wearing clothes.

      As you can tell I’m pretty far from this universe :)

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        Yes, the model. Vtubers typically don’t show their real appearance. Sone do, but some don’t.

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      This is just false, the policy applies to both real people and avatars. It’s even in the article if you bothered to read it.

      Their policies are mostly fine, it’s the lackluster and cherrypicking enforcement that is the problem.

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        Where. I keep reading it over and over and the only one I can find is someone derisively commenting on “the same way it applies to other streamers”.

        Twitch guidelines are basically written in such a way that they can just freely do whatever they want and this “rule chabge” seems to continue in that spirit, singling out vtubers.

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      13 hours ago

      this rule apparently only applies to the avatars, but the real stuff is still fair game.

      WTF.

      I guess their biz model is in fact ehags then…