When The World Needed Me... I Watched MorgPie, For Some Reason

Okay, so, I decided to make a weird adult game again, mainly because I was experiencing writer's block with Becoming The Fire and I decided to remedy that by working on something else. It worked pretty well, actually, since I make nearly 60 images for BTF after taking a very long nap due to experiencing a heavy sugar crash.

When I woke up I realised that I didn't post a devlog for this and I was thinking "Does it matter? Will it do anything? I dunno," so I wasn't going to do a devlog because, generally, I never know what to say in these things because I consider my creative process to be boring when I write it down. I find it's more fun and more exciting if I explain it to someone live because they can ask their own questions and I can provide answers to the best of my ability.

Anyways, this project has been successful but probably not as successful as it could have been if I had bothered to give it a decent description. I dunno, if you like it share it with your friends or something, if you don't, well, I don't really care about this project that much beyond making it presentable by my standards, so, I'm not all that invested in the success or failure of the project beyond getting excited at seeing the big numbers that all of my predominantly NSFW games get in the first week. What will excite me is seeing the reactions that people have, if anyone sticks around, to see the older versions of the characters. That will be a treat.

I was recommended a clip from Morgpie, who is a very controversial Twitch streamer who got in trouble for "Butt Streams," which is where she apparently wore green-screen underwear and played video games, then had the game video playing on her underwear.

It wasn't all that interesting, but, it made me think "Who finds this exciting?"

The thing is, I don't think that anyone actually finds that stuff arousing, which is why Twitch streamers keep on needing to do more bold tactics to interest people. I think that people are going to those nude streams on Twitch, despite better content existing elsewhere, for the novelty of seeing a girl in her underwear on Twitch or with bare breasts, not because they're actually turned-on by the content.

But, it did make me think about what would be arousing to see. Firstly, the entire streaming aspect is really bad because in the back of your mind you'll always be aware that you're part of a big group of guys fawning over some girl who only cares about how much money they're making, which I don't understand how anyone would find that attractive, so it might actually be better to cover up a bit. I could see streams taking place on Twitch where a girl wears t-shirts that subtly reveal a bit of cleavage and some sweatpants, then having more lewd 'streams' uploaded onto a site like Pornhub.

That kinda brings me to the second thing which is the games that girls play on-stream. If the goal is to just play games or just chat with the audience, cool, do that, but if the goal is to arouse them like with hot tub streams I think that playing shooting games and talking about their personal lives or random drama is the wrong way to go. I think they should play dating sims, visual novels, and RPGs mainly because they have a lot of text in them, which would encourage interactions with the chat because, honestly, Twitch chat loves to repeat things and create memes during the stream so in, say, Pet Foxes 2 when the "Only Love And Pet Foxes," thing comes up repeatedly and chat spams "Only Love And Pet Foxes," the streamer can instantly become more relatable by joining in and memeing with chat.

Do you think that's wrong? Well, as someone who's made porn games for over a year at this point, some of them being pretty successful, one thing that I've learned from talking with people is that an easy way to make people lust over a character is to put a smile on their face and appear relatable to people by showing that they have similar interests. You fantasise about Rihanna, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and other pretty ladies but you don't feel attracted to them in the same way as a camgirl because you know that they won't participate in your fantasies. So, like, the more that you can seem approachable, at least online, the more successful your stream will be, but if you go down that path of baiting men into having those fantasies you do need to accept and acknowledge what you're doing and take proper precautions.

I also think that AI censorship should probably be a thing instead of automated bans and strikes. What I mean is that I've seen nude streamers use AI black bars to censor their body and, well, I feel like that should be something that websites consider doing. We have the technology to detect bad words, disturbing imagery, and nudity, so it seems weird that we don't also use that technology to censor that stuff as well. I don't like the idea of websites that rely on user-generated content putting the responsibilities of promoting, presenting, and censoring that content onto the users because I feel like that inevitably just leads to a community full of very bitter creators that feel like they didn't receive proper promotion, encouragement, and validation, a small minority of incredibly smug creators who are terrified of their jealous fans desperate for attention, a website that needs to inevitably get 'worse' because the 'good' content doesn't pay the bills as much as 'bad' content, and a bunch of users that start off just wanting to see good content but get turned into emotionally-stunted people due to the community on the site encouraging them to consume the same content over and over again because it keeps recommending that same content over and over again until they decide they want to look for something different. I know that people are going to say "Well, the community that I'm involved with is very wholesome," but, well, I've heard people in cults say similar things, so your community might be far more toxic than you think it is and you haven't realised it, or it might actually be incredibly wholesome. But, like, even when I watch EFAP, which seems pretty normal, there's weird things like people spending more and more money on superchats because EFAP tends to read those on other streams lately unless the amount being given to them is big even to be noticeable, which resulted in some guy giving them $500 because his wife (who was a fan of the show) really wanted them to read his message and acknowledge his deceased wife. Like, I feel like people were treating it like it was incredibly wholesome or something, but I found that entire segment to be really uncomfortable.

Tangent aside, I feel as though it should be the responsibility of platforms to ensure that creators can focus as much effort on creating content as possible, while the platform should handle the moderation, censorship, and promotion of that content if they are intending to profit off of it (if they aren't, as in, not placing ads on or around the content, the responsibility should fall on the community, which includes the creators and the users). Creators should be able to submit their content for approval by the platform and either get rejected with a report as to why it was rejected and what, specifically, needs to be changed, or given a message of approval allowing it to be posted and promoted in the correct way, or the platform should allow the quality-control and/or the censorship of a video to be done by AI or something if they don't want to put in the effort of having an actual team of people handle those things. Allowing people to post whatever they want, whenever they want, and punish them afterwards if someone else tells the platform that the content breaks the rules of the platform is just kind of bad for everyone, but, sites like Youtube have proven that they can keep doing that because creators are fiercely loyal to the money they make from Youtube, so even if a site offers them more freedom they'll stay on Youtube because the other site doesn't pay as well. God forbid China creates a competing Youtube that pays creators just a little bit more than Youtube does, and offers incentives for promoting Chinese apps.

Dang, this was long. Thanks for sticking through my rambling.

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Weird420XL