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Sexualized culture on livestreaming platforms: a content analysis of Twitch.tv

74 点作者 MrJagil大约 1 年前

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COGlory大约 1 年前
Everyone is focusing on the fact that there are more sexualized women streamers than men - that&#x27;s an obvious conclusion though because men are far more motivated by sexualized women than vice versa.<p>The interesting thing to me in this article is the amount of women streaming that are sexualized:<p>&gt;However, the majority of women (71.4%) wear attire ranging from moderate necklines to bikinis or minimal clothing and use the focus of the image to show their full body (76.2%). In addition, more than half of these streamers evoke a sexual act (51.6%), while two thirds of them insinuate such acts or seduce with their mouth (32.7% + 34.7%).<p>So 65%-75% of female streamers on Twitch are overtly sexualized. Overall, I think this is a complete race to the bottom. I understand the incentives that govern it (it&#x27;s a male dominated audience, therefore sex gets attention, more sex gets more attention, and now we have an arms race) but this seems really unhealthy and disappointing for people on both sides of the thing.<p>Twitch is a disaster and needs to do something to reclaim its identity if it doesn&#x27;t just want to turn into <i>yet another</i> porn site. I don&#x27;t have a problem with porn but I do have a problem with the ubiquity of it. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s healthy to have it in every single social setting because it sucks all the air and value out of everything else around it. Keep porn on porn sites, and let people differentiate themselves in other, more creative ways, elsewhere. Porn is generally the least interesting thing a female creator can do in the attention economy and it just reinforces existing gender stratification.<p>Also, I have no idea why this submission was flagged, it&#x27;s a reputable source and of real interest to this audience.
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wjholden大约 1 年前
I don&#x27;t really see the contribution from this study. The paper looks fine: quality writing, ample research, statistics are probably fine. What I mean is I don&#x27;t see any non-obvious insight here.<p>Also, I think this study would have been much more interesting on more generic video sites like Instagram or Tiktok, which (I assume) have more balanced creator and viewer populations. I don&#x27;t personally take Twitch seriously, and so it&#x27;s hard for me to embrace a social study that samples from Twitch.
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Spivak大约 1 年前
This entire thread is missing what the study is actually saying.<p>&gt; Based on these criteria, the top 10 videos were selected from the daily world ranking within the selected categories during 32 consecutive days. Within the Videogames category, the three most popular clips of each day were selected (n = 960) and within the IRL category, clips from the subcategories JustChatting (n = 320), ASMR (n = 320) and Pools, Hot Tubs &amp; Beaches (n = 320)<p>Anyone focusing on the idea that women are sexualizing themselves or that most women on Twitch are just softcore porn &#x2F; taking advantage of lonely men &#x2F; whatever the narrative is today misses it entirely. This study is saying that of all the women on Twitch, the overwhelmingly male audience chooses to watch the ones that sexualize themselves. This is a study about Twitch&#x27;s mostly male-viewerbase and who they choose to watch, not a holistic sample of female streamers.<p>You can&#x27;t measure this by popularity for the simple fact that the women who play games on Twitch are far far less popular than men who do. And any woman who cultivates an audience of primarily other women will be an order of magnitude less popular than that.
cm2012大约 1 年前
It&#x27;s really funny to me that because Twitch started as a game streamer, most of its ads are from big &quot;clean&quot; consumer brands. But usually there&#x27;s (edited) 3x as many people streaming the softcore porn &quot;Just Chatting&quot; section as any individual game. The only reason Twitch still has these kind of big advertisers is because they havn&#x27;t noticed what the platform actually is.<p>I actually like Twitch as it is, I think it serves a good niche on the internet. Most of the female streamers seem to basically use their streams as inspiration to work out (like, if they get 50 new followers they do more sit-ups or w&#x2F;e). It seems pretty harmless. It&#x27;s just makes me laugh that the advertisers have no idea.
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NikolaNovak大约 1 年前
This is a sensitive topic, but an important one. I would like to engage in discussions, apologies in advance if any of this offends and makes people uncomfortable. I will try to learn and be respectful.<p>First minor point - 3 million daily viewers worldwide is WAY less than I thought twitch has. We keep talking about gaming becoming mainstream, but 50+million people watched friends finale in USA alone. Twitch is not as big as I thought.<p>Second:<p>&quot;The sexualized representation of women in the media shapes gender attitudes, dehumanizes women, and legitimizes violence against them&quot;<p>I haven&#x27;t realized and I&#x27;d need some convincing that line between sexuality and legitimizing violence is so straight, firm, and one-to-one. My hope for future is that women and indeed any gender, can choose to display and engage, with any level of sexuality (including &quot;none&quot; and &quot;lots&quot;) as much as they damned well please. It feels... &quot;Wrong&quot; to indicate that &quot;sexual display legitimize violen&quot;. Am I too easily triggered that this feels slightly like victim shaming?<p>Third, As another commenter points out, genders are equal but not necessarily the same, biological and often culturally, and their target markets are different in their preferences as well. Is that morally good or bad? The paper appears to <i>assume</i> it is. I&#x27;d like more discussion on that.
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Jensson大约 1 年前
Twitch has mostly male viewers, many of them like watching sexy women, not so many like watching sexy men. Makes sense then that popular sexy content on twitch is mostly women.
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barrkel大约 1 年前
I think you see this dynamic anywhere young women and older teenage girls are trying to build an audience through video, not just Twitch.<p>I don&#x27;t see any obvious way to change it. How do you police the line without seeming fundamentalist religious?
gotoeleven大约 1 年前
I know this may come as shock to some people, but cultural norms surrounding the modesty of women aren&#x27;t just a patriarchical conspiracy to oppress women. They are a solution to this race to the bottom problem among women competing for mates. In the same way we have a cultural norm against stabbing people so the people who are best at stabbing don&#x27;t kill all the other men, a culture of modesty prevents harlotry from being an effective strategy among women.
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dev1ycan大约 1 年前
I think (personally) that while it&#x27;s acceptable that the site functions as a softc*re site, it most definitely should get regulated as such, require an 18+ tag and so on.<p>It is not that different from onlyfans.
jacknews大约 1 年前
It seems obvious to me that there are more &#x27;sexy&#x27; female streamers than male.<p>You could argue that they are &#x27;forced by the market&#x27; to be more sexualized. Or you could argue that they are taking advantage of the market and using sex to sell.<p>I mean the whole thing is asymetric, you can&#x27;t expect men and women to behave in exactly the same way, they have different needs, desires, and affordances.
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unpopularopp大约 1 年前
Well years ago everyone was screaming that it was misogynistic to not want sexual content on the platform ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯<p>I just leave this here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;booba.tv&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;booba.tv&#x2F;</a>