"Hot tub" streamer Indiefoxx: "Twitch streamers should wear more clothes" - Video

One of Twitch's most famous female streamers, Indiefoxx, is currently most well-known for her "hot tub" streams where she hangs out in a small pool with inflatable toys and talks with her stream viewers. If you donate enough subscriptions to Indiefoxx's channel, she'll even write your name on her body with a sharpie. Dreams really do come true.

Personally, I don't necessarily have a problem with Indiefoxx's streaming content or other streamers who do hot tub streams. This video isn't intended to attack her or the "hot tub meta" that is currently popular on Twitch.

Indiefoxx is making quite a lot of money (possibly even over a million per year, depending on her revenue outside of Twitch - she has a site for "fans," if you know what I mean). With the kind of cash she's making just chilling in some water with a rubber ducky, she won't have to worry about being homeless any time soon.

Indiefoxx didn't always do this type of content, however, and back in 2017, she wrote a tweet decrying women on Twitch who wear little or revealing clothing (as it's commonly believed that the women who were doing this were using their appearance to attract more Twitch viewers/subscribers). In the tweet, she said that women should have to wear t-shirts and pants (or something comparably modest) while streaming on Twitch in order to compete on the same playing field with men.

Fast-forward to 2020, and Indiefoxx is now among the most prominent of Twitch's "hot tub" streams, wearing bikinis and/or lingerie in many (if not all) of her modern streams. People will always watch this kind of content, and I don't know that it's the most damaging that Twitch has to offer - providing that the amount of clothing is the issue here.

I think a woman in a bikini is much more benign than, for example, a streamer discussing (extremely) intimate details of their personal life and influencing young people to say or do things that they might not yet have the experience to fully comprehend. Even adults look up to Twitch streamers (or YouTubers, or other influencer types) and place much more weight on what the streamers have to say than might otherwise be deserved.

What do you think about Twitch's hot tub streams and the streamers who do them? Do streamers have too much of an influence over impressionable people? Should they make more of an effort to be role models? Is that fair to the streamer? Should Twitch be doing more to "protect" children? If so, could that harm the platform and its creators more than help their viewers?