Twitch is a wild camsite.
Twitch is supposed to be all about gaming, but is populated by broadcasts where games are barely even touched upon. In fact, a lot of the most popular channels are dominated by fetish content.
Many (if not most) of the most popular female streamers succeed primarily because of their wily (in a GOOD way!) and seductive hotness combined with fetish streams revolving around sensually-stimulating, but not necessarily overtly-sexual niches like ASMR.
It’s to be expected that a camsite will evolve (or devolve, depending on your perspective) to include topics that have little to do with the primary purpose a platform started out to revolve around. You name the platform, and naturally people are going to want to spice things up with more stimulating content along with pure casual bullshit hangouts. When you browse twitch broadcasts you’re going to see gaming, sure, but you’re also going to see and hear A LOT of other stuff: dudes hanging out and talking about whatever feuds they’re in, music broadcasts (there are some great musicians and DJs on Twitch), and hotties trying on their latest bathing suit hauls. Among other things.
It’s *fun* just to see how innovative cute girls and women get to work around censorship on mainstream webcam platforms. There’s something extra naughty and playful about a streamer trying to skirt around the rules limiting any nudity or behavior that could be perceived as sexual. Rules against displaying stuff that could be seen as seeking rewards for delivering sexual content add a whole layer of taboo that would not otherwise be there without the rules. It’s horny and exciting!
Yesterday while browsing the IRL / “Just Chatting” category, I popped into a hot girl’s room to watch and listen to her live stream. She was in the middle of pondering whether Twitch was shadowbanning her for putting her feet up in the foreground of her broadcast. Every time she put her feet up on her desk, she said she noticed her viewer count took a dive. She wondered if Twitch detects soles being put on display and is automatically lowering their ranking or just plain hiding their feeds completely.
It sounds crazy, but Twitch has been known to outright BAN broadcasters who put on foot shows. Even if the barefoot displays are low key and subtle, Twitch streamers can get in trouble for appearing to make more money for sexually-stimulating displays of their feet. When you browse Twitch as a casual observer, it can LOOK as though anything goes as long as it’s not full pink nudity, but their rules and guidelines are pretty specific about not showing skin gratuitously. How and whether they actually enforce those rules seems pretty nebulous and inconsistent, but apparently if you have no good reason to be showing your bare feet, you better just keep them off cam. Even though a lot of people hang out and chat and game barefoot, a streamer is obviously taking it to another level when they make their feet the FOCUS of their cam.
It’s hard to say whether the girl I popped in on was dancing around that line purposefully by discussing the DANGER she could be in with Twitch by showing her feet, OR if she really had noticed a correlation between putting her feet up front and center and suddenly losing her audience, and wanted to let people know she would absolutely NOT compromise her channel’s status by giving in to requests to show her feet.
Feet are a hot (and lucrative) topic; she could have been getting viewers excited just by discussing the naughtiness of it. Dudes get excited and often more *motivated* when they known something is off limits. When you tell viewers they can’t have something, man … they want it EVEN MORE.
Feet seem like such an innocent thing to people who aren’t turned on by them, but toes and bare feet are actually juicy, yummy, FORBIDDEN FRUIT. There will always be an eager audience for feet on EVERY kind of camsite, no matter what kinds of rules they try to make against catering to foot fetishists.