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‘Nude’ Twitch streamer starts another new meta by pixelating herself

Nude Gamer hones in on a very specific kind of : the streamer. The site is basically if it was also a . Girls stream and play games (or just talk with their audience), interspersed with taking off their clothes or themselves. Except for the nudity, which is expressly banned on Twitch, the vibe is pretty similar. In preview videos, girls play Just Dance in workout clothes, just like the controversial streamer , or sit in their gamer chairs talking to their audience. The site’s color scheme is even a deeper, more red purple—a riff on Twitch’s signature cool blue purple logo.

Nude Gamer’s facsimile of Twitch is so complete that I found myself wanting to watch these women’s streams. If you don’t want to sign up for the site, you can see select clips from their archives. In my pre-coffee, week-five-of-quarantine state this morning, I found myself being drawn into one model’s stream archive, where she described how going hiking gave her a sense of fulfillment that made her feel more peaceful than anything else. She was resting on her couch, D.Va stripes painted on her face, snuggling a Grookey plush. I almost tricked myself into believing Nude Gamer Twitch until I saw that this streamer’s shirt was revealing the underside of her breasts. Underboob is .

I respect and understand the hustle of Nude Gamer—if people are already fetishizing women in this way, might as well get them paid. But its existence reveals something about Twitch’s thot police—this is what they think Twitch already is. When I watch the women on Nude Gamer, sexuality is part of the fun. It’s porn; if it’s not sexy then what’s the point? But it would be inappropriate to see and treat women on Twitch in ways identical to porn performers: Twitch streamers are not choosing to be sexualized in the same fashion as porn performers. Some people have convinced themselves that women have no value beyond their aesthetic appeal long before they got on Twitch. For those people, seeing a streamer as being a different job with different job requirements than a cam girl is nigh impossible. From that vantage point, one kind of female performance is identical to any other, and so all women should be looked at, spoken to, and treated the same across contexts.

The streamers on Nude Gamer are using their body to attract viewers, on purpose. It’s their job. The women on Twitch who get chastised by strangers and penalized by Twitch itself for allegedly wearing clothing that’s too revealing or sexual are , , and sometimes are . For those women, playing games is not the preamble for taking their clothes off, but sometimes they’re accused of behaving pornographically, manipulating their audience with their bodies or even (gasp) being . I want to be clear: it’s perfectly fine to want to watch cam girls. It’s just important to not confuse the fantasy of a woman for the reality of her. Nude Gamers is a place where the fantasy is explicitly part of the bargain, is one where it is imposed.