In December, Twitch relaxed its rules to allow for "artistic depictions of nudity" in streams—things like "content that ‘deliberately highlighted breasts, buttocks or pelvic region,’"—as long as it was labelled as containing "sexual themes." Two days later, following "community concern," it chickened out and walked the changes back: "Moving forward, depictions of real or fictional nudity won't be allowed on Twitch, regardless of the medium," CEO Dan Clancy said.
Today Twitch further firmed up its no-nudity rules with an update to its attire policy that prohibits "implied nudity" in streams. The change comes in reaction to a recent meta in which streamers used objects, black censor bars, or strategic camera positioning to make themselves look fully or partially nude—even though, as Twitch acknowledged, most of them were clothed, and thus were not actually violating any rules.
