Twitch to add 350+ new tags for 'Your Community' tab

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Twitch will be rolling out soon over 350 new tags related to gender, race, sexual orientation, ability, mental health, nationality, and more. The tags will include transgender, Black, veteran, Vtuber, disabled, and more. According to Twitch, it will take out references to ally from the LGBTQIA+ tag and create a standalone ally tag. The additional tags won't change who the platform's tagging system works but will give creators more choices.

Twitch explained why it took them so long to implement the feature in the blog post announcing these new tags. When it introduced tags in 2018, the platform wanted to give creators a way to describe their content and not who they were or what they stood for. But their team realized that viewers love Twitch because of the creators and "what they care about... and the communities they have built." 

"By expanding tags, we are giving creators more ways to be discovered and viewers more ways to find communities that they want to call home," Twitch wrote.

According to the company, the LGBTQIA+ tag was an "exception to the initial design." It started as an experiment and stayed "based on overwhelmingly positive feedback from the community."

Twitch has worked with independent, third-party organizations like GLAAD, The Trevor Project, SpecialEffect, AbleGamers, and more to make the tags as inclusive as possible. For the tags Twitch might have missed, it encourages you to reach out via UserVoice to share suggestions. The company plans to review highly upvoted suggestions every week to see which ones they can add.

The Twitch team will go live on /twitch to discuss the changes and address any user questions. 

Via: 9to5Mac