
That leaves the specific games on Twitch's banned list, and. Particular examples include Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which went from M to AO to M again over the course of the "Hot Coffee" controversy Manhunt 2, which secured an M rating for its American release by putting a bunch of random Photoshop filters over its most violent scenes and Hatred, the infamously edgy 2015 twin-stick shooter. Less than 30 video games have ever ended up rated AO, and most of them subsequently revised their content to get their rating dropped down to M.


Most software developers have traditionally gone out of their way to avoid getting an AO rating, as a lot of American retailers won't carry an adult-rated game, and even Steam discouraged explicit adult content on its storefront until relatively recently. There are only a handful of games that fit into the former category. According to Twitch's support database, it restricts two kinds of games from broadcast: those that have been rated Adults Only by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, or which violate Twitch's Community Guidelines regarding "hate speech, sex, nudity, gratuitous gore, or extreme violence."
