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Probably the lost ad revenue. No company wants to advertise on those streams. By breaking them out in way where advertisers could opt out of that stream category, suggestive streamers (a huge segment of traffic) would lose money for Twitch.

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But isn't that already exactly what they're doing by breaking it into hot tub category and letting advertisers opt out of that category? So the question is if they let advertisers opt out anyway, why this hot tub category instead of an explicit suggestive category.

Payment processors? Not that Amazon don't have opportunity to run their own, but still the whole thing on that side is a mess. So they choose to not try to cross the line...

Because if Twitch becomes known or associated with explicit content, it will drive advertisers away, even if their ads are only shown over non-explicit content.

> No company wants to advertise on those streams

Does anyone know why this is? Is it just a legacy generation thing?

If it was me hell yeah I'd be advertising on 30k viewer streams full of people eager and willing to throw money around (assume market fit, obviously)

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