A Japanese VTuber streaming group has issued an apology after its members projected adult content into online Splatoon 3 matches.
The stream in question was held on October 8th by the streaming group 'Sinsogumi', subsequently causing “AVスプラ” (adult video Splatoon)' to trend on Twitter in Japan. The content itself was inserted into online matches by utlilising chroma key to effectively make the opposing team's ink colour a canvas for displaying naughty content in the background.
According to a post from Automaton, all participants in the stream knew that adult content was being displayed in the background and were allegedly in competition with each other to see whose stream would be banned by YouTube first. Not only does the content go against the platform's community guidelines regarding nudity and sexual content, but it also goes against Nintendo's policies on streaming game content online.
As such, Nintendo's corporate Twitter account has issued a fresh reminder of its streaming policies. It seemingly hasn't altered its rules nor made any direct mention to the incident with Splatoon 3, but the timing of it certainly allows us to connect the dots, indicating the company is concerned about the misuse of its property.
One participant in the stream, Ikinone, issued an apology the following day (though their appearance raises questions regarding their sincerity), stating “I made light of breaking the terms of service and simply jumped at the novel and interesting idea.” Sinsogumi also made a statement on Twitter regarding the incident, stating it would punish Ikinone, though what exactly this would entail is currently unknown.
What do you make of this whole incident? Reckon Nintendo needs to implement further measures into Splatoon 3? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
[source automaton-media.com]
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Down with this sort of thing!
@jump Careful now.
@jump @Jey887 Damn, both beat me whilst looking for the GIF
They will never make it stand up in court.
The concept is funny, but intentionally inciting the wrath of the big corporations that "graciously" allow us to stream gameplay footage is just a bad idea.
It's absolutely disgusting and they 100% deserve to be slammed by the ban hammer, don't get me wrong....but you do have to commend the sheer ingenuity to both think up that idea to begin with and actually make it work. I can only imagine how fast the colour drained (pun not intended) from the viewers faces when they realised what was happening though.
@Fizza,
Would somebody please think of the children
They obviously don't have kids. Appalling behaviour and they should at the very least be issued a suspension.
@Fizza About how ingenious it is, this is technology that existed for 90+ years. Blue screens are the exact same concept. Wikipedia article linked.
I guess it takes something like five clicks to set up in the streaming software.
@RubyCarbuncle,
Or at the very least pulled off the platform.
The comments are confusing me here!
@Scrubicius,
You are not the only one, as usual very little information, but it sounds bad enough for total condemnation.
You want to be dumb on the internet? Okay, sure.
But doing this using a medium that attracts a lot of underage viewers is of extremely poor taste
Hmm, the pictured used is of the Inkling girl's face covered with something and the article is about adult content...
This was just a publicity stunt, looking to get clicks and subscribers from young people that are still amazed by this kind of stunt.
And call me old fashioned, but using a brand that is known to attract children and show porn, that's not cool, at all.
I had to re-read the article to understand what actually transpired. For a moment I thought players with an Inkbrush were just drawing dongs and bewbies on the turf, like one does.
@Fizza I didn’t see the content but I’m guessing it wasn’t disgusting. Far from it.
However, definitely not appropriate when there will be children watching.
Why are people like this? Just play or stream the game.
That's awesome
This goes wrong on so many levels. Not only does this expose a lot of unwanted content towards minors, but it also depicts such a thing when you consider how Inklings and Octolings are at least 14 years of age in this game.
Question : What do you make of this whole incident? Reckon Nintendo needs to implement further measures into Splatoon 3?
Me : Off with their (the troublemaker) heads !
I'm of a mixed mind on this.
If the stream was only open to existing subscribers/accounts of a certain age then sure, go for it (it might annoy YouTube/Nintendo, but that's whatever, & apparently the point).
However if it was open to everyone (including kids, who the game would generally attract), I definitely agree this was very poor judgement on their part & need to be reprimanded in some way.
Ah, yes, a brilliant move. By pulling this publicity stunt, they've managed to alienate themselves from both one of the world's biggest providers of gaming content and the world's largest video platform in one fell swoop.
Wait, did I say brilliant? No, sorry, the opposite of that.
Love the Father Ted stuff. I don't get a lot of that here in the U.S.
Why must I wake up to stuff like this bruh! What’s worse is that they had to do it for splatoon, it was going to attract a lot of children sadly! The stream had better been 18+.
@RR529 pretty much how I feel.
Give me an example
Those women were in the nip!
I heard it was like a challenge that they had to quickly ink over the enemy colour so that they don't get banned LOL
I like to keep my porn and squids separate, thank you very much.
Funniest thing all week. Second funniest thing is the utter joylessness of this reporting.
@jump They knew what they were doing! lol
On another note, I know I am being a bad person for this, but as an adult without kids, I find this hilarious.
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