The root cause I don't want to speculate short of getting banned from HN also for having opinions about when people should start having sex or be allowed to watch videos of adults having sex.
Incel culture: I don't agree with this one, I don't think it's something widespread
Softcore porn: The whole hot tub/asmr categories. Amouranth herself says she uses twitch as a billboard to get people to her onlyfans[2]
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/06/nothing-fore...
He used to work for The Young Turks, hosts streams with AOC and Ilhan Omar, is quoted as saying, "On Crenshaw, Piker said, "What the fuck is wrong with this dude? Didn’t he go to war and like literally lose his eye because some mujahideen, a brave fucking soldier fucked his eye hole with their dick?"
And
"In the same stream, Piker criticized American foreign policy and made controversial comments relating to the September 11 attacks, including "America deserved 9/11, dude.""
This is literally just skimming his wiki. Do you know anything about the guy? He's a gigantic PoS. The fact that Twitch doesn't permaban him is insane, they've banned many other people for far less.
* Edit: no idea what are these called, but sometimes they moan and lick the left side, sometimes the right so you can hear it in your corresponding ear.
Hot is probably the right word. Well done if they make money from that I guess.
I'm not commenting on whether it's good or bad, I'm just stating something that anyone who has ever been on twitch is well aware of and would never argue. It's a thing.
One's not sexual. The other one super-duper obviously is, to everyone involved, even if the bathing suit stays on.
the fact wearing a bikini at the beach is not sexual does not mean streaming yourself wearing a bikini in a hot tub while making moaning noises is not softcore porn. the intention is what matters eg attract teenage simp boys.