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Twitch has already been morphing into Chaturbate and the change last week doubled down there. I don’t think a website with a large audience of children should have been brushing up against pornography. I don’t even know what was going on with the AI art stuff, but there were numerous streams where females appeared topless, stopping just short of visible nipples.

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Are there a lot of kids on there? My oldest never watched it once and my youngest only knows it as the place we can feed cats treats with channel points while old people talk about old video games.

I've never really spent time on Twitch but I guess I've always assumed it's for teens. Maybe that's just bias though, I assume teens are also the primary target of video games.

As far as I can tell it's a "pinky promise you're over 18" site, so twitch has a "see no evil" approach to counting that demographic. The public number is 22% 18-25, 50% 25-34. My experience is young adults are much more common than teens, but that probably shifts when you look at bigger streamers and lurkers instead of chatters.

Twitch allows a minimum age of 13. It is a pinky-promise thing, but it's fairly common to see a chatter admit they're under 13 and the streamer is like "Well now that you said that publicly in my chat, I have to ban and report you."

Meh if you're old enough to be online by yourself you're old enough to see some titties.

The puritan approach to sex in America is ridiculous.

Old enough to see titties perhaps, but not to parasocially live-chat about them, or send cash tips.

Children shouldn't be sending cash tips to streamers regardless of the content of said streams.

And yet they do.

And somehow, seeing Palestineans' parts of bodies on the front page of CNN is fine.

It's the puritanical idiocracy of "woman body bad, death and dismemberment good".

(I don't mind seeing topless people. Indifferent really. But seeing people blown up is akin to a snuff film. And this world needs less violence.)

The default (not logged-in) reddit front page includes r/combatfootage, where we get to watch "orks" getting killed.

I mean, I dunno, the Puritans were upset at tolerance. It’s not really puritanical if Amazon doesn’t want to run an internet brothel. Besides, any time you let new content on a social site you risk getting flooded and people leaving.

Or maybe not every site should be about porn?

Why don't we post here on HN then too?

> Why don't we post here on HN then too?

Twitch's audience wants it and HN's audience doesn't. Perhaps more accurately, HN specifically doesn't want that.

HN isn't an image or video sharing site?

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^_^)

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That blew some dust off some brain cells. ^_^

>HN isn't an image or video sharing site?

Not with that attitude

Puts on my robe and wizard hat

Well, hello.

‹looks up base64 rickroll encodings›

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