Here’s what content you're allowed to stream on Kick
Kick is one of the popular streaming platforms with new streamers joining every day, and it’s important to know what content is allowed on the platform.
The streaming industry is getting popular as a whole and both streamers and their audiences expect the platforms they stream on to be safe and refliable. This a challenge for platforms like Kick, as new streamers learn what content is allowed and moderators ensure its rules are followed and everything is on kept on track.
The type of content streamers broadcast in their streams is closely monitored to make sure it complies with the platform’s vision. While it’s known in part for having looser rules than rival streaming platform Twitch, Kick does have its own community guidelines that streamers need to follow. The guidelines explain what type of content allowed on Kick and what’s prohibited. These rules ensure that safety remains a priority while still encouraging dynamic and engaging content.
What is allowed on Kick?
Kick allows many types of content to be streamed, including some forms of gambling and betting. Most content disallowed on the platform is for the safety of its streamers and viewers alike.
One of the biggest things not allowed on Kick is hate speech. The platform is strict in ensuring that everyone feels safe and that nobody is bullied for their gender, race, or sexuality. Kick makes itself out to be a staunch supporter of free speech, but it does make clear that hate speech is always against its rules. In correlation to the hate speech rule, Kick also prohibits the doxxing of anyone through the use the platform. Kick takes revealing any personal information about an individual very seriously, according to its rules.
Kick allows streamers to broadcast mature content, but outright pornographic content is prohibited on the platform. This means that streamers must ensure there is no nudity featured in their streams, and that they don’t stream any overly sexually suggestive content. Promoting such content is also against the rules and can lead to consequences for offenders. Mature content also needs to be marked as such to avoid any unsuspecting viewers opening up and consuming such content if they would prefer to avoid it.
Breaking the law, scamming, and impersonating other individuals is also something Kick prohibits. Using usernames similar to other content creators with the intent of impersonating those individuals is not allowed and can lead to an offender’s channel being banned. Kick also expects users to ensure that copyright rules are respected in any content shared on its platform. Violations can lead to the streams being taken down and potentially serious legal actions being taken against the streamer.
As mentioned, Kick does allow gambling and betting streams on the platform, but there are specific requirements for those streams. Streamers need to make sure they are allowed to stream any games in which they take part in gambling or betting in the jurisdictions in which they’re located at the time of the stream. Content creators are not allowed to take or accept money from channel viewers with the express intention to then gamble or bet that money during a stream. So while you can stream gambling and betting efforts, it can’t be using funds from your live viewers.
By keeping in mind these rules, most streamers shouldn’t have any problem steering clear of disciplinary action on Kick.
Khizar Mundia has been playing video games for as long as he can recall. Things have come a long way since the many days he spent playing the original NES, though. He now covers a variety of competitive games and esports, as well as the world of streaming, ranging from Twitch to Kick. If it’s of interest to gamers, it’s of interest to Khizar.
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