The streaming service Twitch had long the category “The Joy of Sex”. But now the category has been closed. The streamer Sodapoppin is up in arms.
That’s why this category exists at all: In 1993, a game called “The Joy of Sex” was actually released – hence there is also a Twitch category for it. It was an educational game for the “Philips CD-i” platform.
But without much warning, the category has now been removed by Twitch.
That’s why the category is controversial: It is known that Twitch has a strict policy against “sexuality” on stream.
The rules clearly prohibit sexual content. Streamers know that they will run into trouble if they show any images on Twitch that are perceived as “sexual”. Even revealing too much skin in the wrong places can lead to trouble and bans.
Nevertheless, there was the category “The Joy of Sex” for years, which seemed to completely contradict Twitch’s idea. Because the enjoyment of sex should not be a big topic.
Streamers used the category for testing and indie streams
This is how the category was used: As the site Kotaku reports, streamers primarily used “The Joy of Sex” to have fun or to test their stream setup.
In this category, it was neither about sex nor about the actual game, but it was a kind of internal Twitch joke, where even the category title likely piqued viewers’ curiosity.
A major streamer, Chance “Sodapoppin” Morris (2.5 million followers), regularly used the category and spent about 122 hours in it since 2017. He used “Joy of Sex” to stream indie games that did not yet have their own category on Twitch.
This is what the streamer says: In a live stream, Sodapoppin now says:
“What? They removed The Joy of Sex from Twitch. I will make a fuss. Be damned quiet. Do you have any idea how damn proud I am that I have streamed the most time under ‘The Joy of Sex’? I have worked for that. And to take it away from me randomly… I swear, man. Why? That was my area!”
Sodapoppin on Twitch
