LOS ANGELES—Amazon's live streaming platform, Twitch, has rescinded a brand new artistic nudity policy after just two days.
This comes after streamer and award-winning adult content creator Morgpie caused controversy over her appearance of being “topless” during a Twitch stream for charity earlier this week.
AVN reported that Twitch issued a new sexual content policy that expanded the opportunity for streamers—particularly female streamers—to post mature content with the appropriate labeling. One element of the policy update, issued on December 13, was the permission to post “artistic” depictions of nudity and sexual behavior, including art, animation and a variety of fictional styles.
But, on December 15, the Twitch trust and safety team chose to draw back the artistic nudity portion of the new sexual content policy. “In making this update, we were trying to be responsive to these requests and allow the thriving artist community on Twitch to utilize the human form in their art,” writes Dan Clancy, the chief executive officer of the streaming platform under Amazon's rule.
“First, we want to make clear that some streamers, in response to this update, created content that was in violation of our new policy. We’ve worked quickly to remove that content and issue channel enforcements,” Clancy explained. He then explained that a flood of content that did follow the December 13 policy change met the rules but also caused “community concern.”
“So, effective today, we are rolling back the artistic nudity changes,” said Clancy at the end of his post. “Moving forward, depictions of real or fictional nudity won’t be allowed on Twitch, regardless of the medium.”
He said that no other changes to the policy laid out on December 13 by Twitch chief customer trust safety officer Angela Hession will be made at this point.
Morgpie posted on X (formerly Twitter) about the latest changes drawing back fictionalized nudity on Twitch.
“TLDR; no more hentai,” she posted to followers. Her Twitch ban was also lifted.
