[techdragon]

Well that’s a bit surprising.

I’d never heard of Kick … and several actually explicit adult sites are in the service.json file…

This feels like it might be a bit of an overreaction… but I dunno. I’m not about to expose myself to any site like Twitxh/Kick/YouTube right before bed…. It’s not good for my sleep quality… so I’m not really in a position to judge anything about Kick.

[cmcaleer]

Kick competes for the audiences of OBS sponsors YouTube and Twitch while Chaturbate and co (mostly) don't, despite these websites having controversies just as serious as Kick's owner's (Stake.com) own controversies, such as models performing indecent acts in public, parasocial relationships causing (mostly vulnerable, lonely) men to spend or even steal massive amounts of money [0], and lack of resources for models who are trafficked or victims of stalking.

Really, really interesting to see this stance from OBS and very difficult to not view it cynically, especially considering the very lacklustre reasoning. Is OBS saying that they're denying Kick because they don't want to associate themselves with them, implicitly saying that they're happy to be associated with every other site on that list? Seems like a very silly stance to take.

[0] - It's not that long ago that Grant Amato stole hundreds of thousands from his family to send to a camgirl on MyFreeCams, before eventually murdering his parents and brother due to their objections to his parasocial relationship with the camgirl