Finally all those little chubby crew members from Among us can start shaking ass on Twitch again. CEO Dan Clancy announced changes to the platform’s community guidelines on Wednesday, allowing cute animated emotes on the platform that feature characters shaking their butts and twerking.
Emotes help foster vibrant and active viewers on Twitch. Often, sending spam emotes and using channel-specific icons in chat can be just as fun as consuming the content itself. Now the team is changing the rules for emote content to align with general community guidelines. That means: time to twerk.
“Specifically, ass shaking emotes – commonly referred to as twerking, but we just call them ass shaking – are now permitted under our guidelines,” Clancy continued Livestream patch notes on Wednesday.
The banned emotes were never particularly graphic to begin with, affecting many simple cartoon drawings. Twitch users reported strict moderation in response to the emotes in summer 2021. But now these restrictions no longer apply. Polygon reached out to Twitch to ask about the change, and a company representative responded with the following statement:
We wanted to clarify how emotes are evaluated for approval by our teams. Previously, the guidelines we used to evaluate emote requests differed from our Community Guidelines in some ways. We recognize that this may have caused confusion as it was not always clear how we made approval decisions. Now we’ve aligned our Emote Guidelines more closely with the rest of the Community Guidelines. We believe this move will help clarify our decision-making process for the community about what is important to us.
Twitch users have already openly accepted the change. Popular memes – like a GIF of where a crew member comes from Among us shakes and bounces his butt – can return to Twitch chat. Ass shaking has long been a popular format for emotes in general, so artists have responded by sharing art of various characters and other cute little drawings of characters shaking their butts. So if you are a fan of cheeky art like that voluptuous KirbyWell, you’re in luck because now you might see a lot of them on Twitch.
