![]() ![]() xQc's criticism that this content was "trash" seemed not to be an incisive critique of the way online relationships are warping our connections to both sex and to each other, but a very bottom of the barrel take that reeked of the idea that Twitch was for gaming, and gaming was for men. If you're a consenting adult and want to pay a woman to write your name on her stomach and then fart into a microphone, there's nothing legally or ethically wrong with that, strange as it may be. At the same time, Twitch is a male-dominated environment, and that some women were able to take advantage of the inherent sexism of both the platform and gaming in order to turn a profit is to their credit. It's a complex issue: we know Twitch is a platform that is used by minors and that breeds parasocial relationships, and so adult content, even (or perhaps especially) the strangest kind, needs better regulation. During a recent stream on his Twitch channel, xQc informed his audience of just how much money he has spent during gambling streams since beginning in early 2021. I have written about both the hot tub meta and the fart meta extensively, including Amouranth's follow-up once the hype had died down of selling her own bottled farts. xQc was one of the loudest critics of these metas, but all the while was brewing up something that stank even worse: the gambling meta. The fart meta was a spin-off from the hot tub meta - the former essentially brought softcore adult content on Twitch into the mainstream perception, and the latter used that as a springboard to help streamers gain popularity and notoriety with ever weirder, yet still erotically tilted, content. One of those is fake, and it's definitely not the one you're thinking of. It also involved suggestive yoga, licking microphones, moaning breathily, writing subs' names on their skin, and wearing a Spider-Gwen lycra morph suit and a horse head mask while jumping up and down on the bed. However, the actual meta was quite a bit more varied than that. As the name suggested, it involved streamers farting - often conventionally attractive female streamers in skin-tight clothing - for the pleasure of their viewers. ![]() Last year, the fart meta was the talk of the Twitch town. ![]()
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