Popular Twitch streaming Asmongold is warning that the Amazon-owner video game streaming platform Twitch to re-think their current policies in regards to drinking streams on the platform, calling them “unsafe”.
Earlier this month, Twitch announced Enforcement Notes, a brand new features that is intended to provide informative context about the kind of content that is allowed, and is used to help shut down any controversial trends that may arise on the platform.
This new feature has already received a ton of backlash, specifically from Vtube streamers community, who are taking issue with the parts outlined that they must be covered, specifically on the hips, despite the fact that they’re digital avatars.
Moreover, people are slamming Twitch for their approach on streams that feature alcohol drinking, specifically pointing to taking shots as part of an incentive, also adding: “Drinking goal streams are allowed, provided the drinking that takes place is not excessive and would not reasonably be expected to cause harm.”
“Twitch is making a mistake by allowing any of it,” Asmongold said during the stream (h/t Dexerto). “This is so nuanced and so hard to draw the line in, it’s better to just not have alcohol or consumption of alcohol be a component to a reward structure for payment.”
“I think that’s the problem they’re going to run into. It’s so exploitable. It’s so gray, it’s so hard to understand. They will regret the wording. A drinking stream can become unsafe for different people and it can become unsafe for different people of different ratios. I just don’t agree with this.”
