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Twitch doesn't want to get rid of it, it's a huge moneymaker.
They just want plausible deniability to keep advertisers, sponsors, and regulatory bodies happy enough. That's why the rules are so weird.
It's the same with OnlyFans. It wasn't even meant as a porn/sexual medium, but like well over 90% is probably just that.
I just don't hope Twitch let's it roam wild, they just need to man up and call it what it is, it's porn and sexual content, give them their own category and keep them there.
I'm sure we remember not too long ago when rather than go with what the sponsors, advertisers, etc wanted and rein that shit in, they loosened the rules and Twitch essentially became a straight up porn site for two days. And it was already bad before then. It's probably only the plausible deniability preventing them from going back to loosening the rules and raking in the camgirl money. Disappointing but absolutely not surprising that Twitch would probably make more money from that than from the ads, sponsorships and so on they get now.
You had me at huge moneymaker.