Twitch Debuts Content Rating Label System To Protect Viewers From Explicit Content

June 22 (Portaltic/EP) –

twitch has released content rating tags, a system that allows streamers to classify the type of content they offer and clarify whether gambling, profanity or violent representations are included in their views.

The company has commented that, after a series of comments provided by the ‘streamers’, it has considered including labels that give more information to viewers about what contain the videos that the creators publish platform content.

This measure, which was announced in January of this year with the change in its regulations on community safety on the platform, establishes a content classification system with specific labels that “can be applied or removed at any time during a stream”, as and as it has nuanced in a statement.

These are labels that are replacing the already existing adult content warning on the platform and that must be used every time a live broadcast include explicit content, mature, drug use, alcohol or excessive use of tobacco, depictions of violent graphic content, profanity, vulgar expressions, or gambling.

Twitch has clarified that this update does not change the community guidelines, but “simply specifies that certain types of content, although allowed on Twitch, must be tagged.”

With this, he has warned that, if streamers don’t tag “accurately” their ‘streams’ will “apply the correct label” to their broadcast and they will receive an email notifying them of the situation. Therefore, it will not suspend the accounts of those who have not tagged the videos.

However, it has encouraged content creators to introduce some of these labels and that, if not done after “multiple warnings”, the relevant tags will be applied globally across all your channels in a matter of days or weeks.

twitch considers that with these indicatives, younger viewers and advertisers can be protected and that the fact of putting labels is a practice that offers greater transparency and information about the use of its service.

These labels are available in the ‘Edit stream information’ section, which houses the broadcast Manager. When the ‘stream’ ends, the unpublished tags are transferred automatically to the following content you post, unless the user manually deletes them.