Viral new Twitch craze sees Indiefoxx and Amouranth LICKING mics for cash in ‘saucy TikTok leggings’
SOME of Twitch's biggest stars are sensually licking their microphones while broadcasting to thousands of fans as part of a new viral trend.
Female creators on the live streaming platform, which is popular with kids, frequently moan on camera while performing the saucy shows.
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They're often wearing tight, revealing leggings during the broadcasts, which are part of a drive to entice more paying fans to their pages.
It follows the recent rise of controversial "hot tub" streams, in which bikini-clad Twitch stars chat to fans while splashing around in inflatable pools.
Titillating streams have proved controversial on the platform.
They're extremely popular, but brazenly push the boundaries of Twitch's rules on nudity.
The licking trend arose in recent weeks, and has been popularised by stars including Indiefoxx and Amouranth.
During a broadcast, they'll reward each new subscriber with 30 seconds or so of unabashed microphone tonguing.
Each new subscriber pays a monthly fee starting as low as $5 and rising all the way to $25.
The streams combine a mix of popular online crazes, including ";TikTok leggings" – a brand of honeycomb-textured legwear that lifts up your bum.
They also employ elements of ASMR - videos in which presenters make sensual sounds in a bid to give bated viewers a "brain orgasm".
It's triggered by any number of sights and sounds, from watching someone brush their hair, to hearing a lick or kissing sound in your ear.
It's not clear how many subscribers the streams are pulling in. Twitch does not publish its sub statistics online.
Most Twitch creators broadcast themselves playing video games, with fans able to chat with the streamer and send them money.
But the site also hosts other kinds of streams that aren't necessarily about gaming – including some that involve the recent "hot tub" trend.
It's been been slammed by some as being a perceived violation of the platform's community guidelines, which specifically prohibit sexually suggestive content.
But the streams have proved enormously popular recently, with some of the biggest hot tub streamers pulling in hundreds of thousands of new subscribers in a matter of weeks.
Some critics say such videos have no place on a platform which skews to younger viewers.
According to , as much as 38 per cent of all Twitch app users in the US last year were aged between 10 and 19.
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