I find the atrocious accessibility of their app far more offensive than a simple word, but that's just me. I'm not fond of people getting offended on my behalf.

The *bigger* problem is when an ablest group is offended about something when the disabled group isn't. Its misrepresentation.

No. Blind is a state not a person.

It seems about as offensive as 'blind date' to me. In other words, not. Some may get irked by it but I don't.

I think it's a decent word to describe the situation. Did they replace it with another tag? I'm curious what they would consider a good substitute.

It really depends on the person, but I don't understand how a blind playthrough would be non-inclusive or offensive. Joking about going blind or making fun of someone for not having "good vision" I think would be more offensive to some people , but not a blind playthrough. Honestly I think some non-disabled people are too sensitive when it comes to this stuff and are overly afraid of using the "b word" in any context.

I find the fact that they removed something that simple is ridiculous.

I have no problem with that at all. What I do have a problem with though is the fact that totally blind gamers are still ignored by the major game developers.

What bothers most people about this, I think, is that actual blind people were very likely not consulted about this change.
I've seen it mentioned in this thread already. People are essentially deciding for other people what's offensive to them.

This is compounded by the tweet that announced this change, saying that they listened to people's feedback. I find this a little odd given the fact that I'd not be surprised if only a super small amount of feedback on this was received, if any at all. If we go down that road though, wouldn't it stand to reason that the name Twitch for a platform is similarly offensive?

It kind of reminds me of the time when people tried to do the same to the word blindspot, replacing it with dead-angle.
In my humble opinion, this is a non-issue. I'd say a blind playthrough doesn't really cover the actual concept very well, but that's my linguistics brain talking. As in ... a blind playthrough is a playthrough that you go into blindly, which in turn is an idiom meaning you don't know what to expect. But given that idiom already got contaminated by colloquializing it as blind playthrough, I can't really see why we get bent out of shape over it. Going in blind is not offensive to me, but I can see that one being far more of an issue than a blind playthrough because it suggests that a blind person never knows what they get into. There's a lot to unpack there as well:
\- First, is that necessarily wrong? If a blind person enters an unfamiliar situation, of course they have skills to figure out that situation , but a blind person isn't going to be able to assess a room very well from a distance, so in that sense I would say going in blind is actually somewhat accurate, if we focus on a single moment rather than a longer-term thing.
\- If we go by that logic, is blind even an insult at that point, though? I'd argue that going inblind, or a blind playthrough, is describing a situation where people don't have foreknowledge about a situation they're about to get into. That's pretty much everyone all of the time though. But then what, do we need to call it a non-clairvoyant playthrough? Oh hey ...that means clear-seeing in French doesn't it?
This is a rabbit hole of immense depth with very little gain and quite honestly, for a company with an inaccessible app, who recently let go the one person who was doing proper accessibility work for Twitch, this is an incredibly laughable move.

So in summary, is blind playthrough offensive? Only to the extent that I don't think it covers the concept, but then I have the same problem with idiot and other old words that gained a nasty connotation later in their lives because that is just how language works. Is it offensive to me as a blind person? No, and frankly it's offensive that other people seem to decide for me that it should be.

Haha no. These huge companies have never asked ya no, actual blind people what they think.

It is really stupid to be offended by the word ‘blind’ when it’s not even referring to being blind, in my opinion. So no. This is just silly

Yes this bothers me. What If a blind gamer does a blind playthrough? Are we NOT allowed to use the word or do we get a pass?
All language is contextual. The level of absurdity by whomever believed this phrase was in some way derogatory is laughable.
A blind corner is still a blind corner wheather you're fully sighted or not.

This is so short sighted!

Oops I just made fun of short blind people.

Ah. It's fine. I understood the context. It's not offensive. People are too weak nowadays.

I’m gonna get "the word blind is not an insult" tatooed on my forehead if i see one more post like this one

Not even a little bit to me. I'm a grown ass adult who is capable distinguishing the nuance and meaning in a word.

I think to some it might be, yeah. I think "blind reactions" too aren't great. I'm not necessarily upset when I hear these phrases used, but it would be nice to see other terms used. I just don't know any. I don't really care for my disability being used for a scenario when people don't know what they are expecting. Blind people often work hard at knowing where they are and what is upcoming. But again, I don't know any replacements that get across the same concept. Like "falling on deaf ears" isn't cool, they are just used commonly without much thought from most of the world, including those in the disability communities.

I really don't have much to add, but feel compelled to add my agreement with other comments in this thread.

1. It's not disrespectful or discriminatory;
2. I'd be surprised if any blind or vision impaired person was asked their opinion on the situation;
3. It does nothing to improve the accessibility of Twitch or video games.

No, absolutely not. The most offensive thing about this whole situation is the fact that they didn’t bother to talk to any actual blind people.

Twitch made this decision completely based on how sighted people thought we felt. The worst part about this entire situation is the fact that it won’t get talked about how it should. Nobody will point out how twitch allowed sighted people to speak for us.

They will continue to receive praise because everybody will think they are being so inclusive, in reality they are just virtue signaling. Twitch actually fired the only person who was working to make their site accessible.

It's more offensive that sighted people are apparently deciding what is or isn't offensive to us. \*shrug\*

I don’t find it offensive, but unfortunately in every group there are oversensitive people. Whether it’s about a persons disability, Race, religion, sexual orientation, etc. you always find someone that is offended by just about anything and everything. Sometimes I think people just enjoy bitching about something. Those people should focus on more important things

This comes up what, once a week? No. Nobody cares.

Even if it was somehow a problem, you can't change people's attitude by forcing to use language they don't want to use, you'll just piss em off even worse.

Fuck it makes me curse and swear. Solve real problems, don't waste time on this meaningless virtue signalling self important try hard obnoxious bullshit.

Short answer: FUCK NO!Long answer: FUCK NO! I enjoy games myself, the usage of blind doesn't even pertain to blind people in this context. Same with the blindfolded runs, imagine how much of a lowlife I'd have to be to get offended at a blindfolded run because they're pretending to be me, when 99% of these guys would destroy me in many of the games they play.Enjoy your blind playthroughs and don't worry about what some know-nothing has to say about it. Twitch really should be looking to hand out equal punishments across genders, or more accurately, stop favoring those that pull in a huge amount of money and being more lenient with them, before telling people with disabilities what's offensive to them.

I don't find it offensive, but I don't usually take phrases like that personally.

Definitely not offensive, about misleading though, I'd imagine a blind play through to be one made with a blindfold or blind player or something
As mentioned above though it's meaningless when the app isn't even accessible

The label seems very harmless and if anything I am just amused. Okay really guys?

I am offensive and i find this blind.

Only sensitive people get offended. That's what it is so that's what it should be called.

What is this fresh hell?

I'm more offended that they took time to do this and then kiss their own ass about it over getting rid of actual problems (like some pretty popular predatory streamers) on the site itself.

But making a blog and rule change is free, instead of costing money by actually clearing away filth....

I used twitch just the other day on the latest version of iOS with my iPod touch I thought it was pretty accessible to be honest.

absolutely not. I am blind and I use blind playthrough all the time.

No.