Twitch has announced it’s rolling back some of its nudity guidelines, just days after it changed them to include VRChat streams and issued bans that led to widespread confusion and uproar.
However, in June, VRChat streamers were left baffled and hit back at Twitch after many were suddenly hit with related bans. Despite being recognized as “in-game virtual reality models” and not prohibited under the sameNudity and Attire guidelinesfor Twitch.
Twitch initially responded that it hadchanged policy to include VRChat streamers, but following feedback, announced a rollback of the rule changes for VRChat avatars and removed the bans.
Twitch posted on X (formerly Twitter) repealing the changes to VRChat but notes how the policy still applies to VTubers:
“Effective today, we are rolling back the change to the enforcement guidelines. Any strikes due to this change will be deprecated. That said, as stated in our policy, our attire policy guidelines still apply to Vtubers, but it does not apply to characters in games such as VRChat.”
📢 We made a change to our enforcement guidelines recently regarding the application of our attire policy to VRChat streams.We received a lot of feedback from the VRChat community about the confusion this has caused, especially since it was not accompanied by a change to our…https://t.co/qlubRCXvzF
VRChat has created a virtual reality social experience game where players can do virtually anything while connecting with people worldwide.
They have been able to customize their avatars with almost any attire imaginable. Despite this, as in-game nudity is still explicitly against VRChat’s terms of service, itsguidelines have stated: “This content must still comply with our policy on Nudity and Sexual Content in Embedded Media and Games.”
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With this rollback, steamers can wear whatever they want, within reason, while streaming VRChat on Twitch.
They have also been made not responsible for the attire of other players’ avatars that may appear in their streams unless it goes against the “explicit content” terms of service of the streaming platform.
