Last week I wrote about Rinse & Repeat, a funny, yet poignant shower sim about various aspects of gay culture and man’s relationship to video games. Now, that game has been banned from Twitch.
Rinse & Repeat developer Robert Yang found this turn of events mildly flattering, but ultimately damaging.
“On one hand, it is extremely validating as an artist to be acknowledged as ‘dangerous’ — thanks, Twitch,” Yang said on his blog. “On the other hand, the Twitch policy about sex and nudity is s***ty and I’m going to complain about why I hate it and feel it’s unfair, and also really unhealthy for video games as an artform.”
First off, Yang cited Twitch’s own rules of conduct regarding nudity in games: