3 Twitch streamers who have said “cracker” on livestream

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Since its inception last December, the "cracker" debate on Twitch has left a lasting effect on the community and continues to be a hot topic to this day. Below are three notable streamers who decided to test Twitch's treacherous terms of services (TOS) waters with a seemingly powerless word and still faced the consequences for their actions.

Twitch's TOS is very rigid with things that their streamers aren't allowed to do or condone. After the DMCA strikes in recent months, the cracker controversy is probably the biggest issue faced by Twitch streamers.

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One True King content creator Bruce Ray "BruceDropEmOff" was probably the most conflicting of the few streamers who got caught in the act. The streamer took to his Twitter immediately after getting banned for commenting the word "cracker" in another streamer's chat.

Bruce's identity as a black man plays a huge role in whether Twitch's decision to ban him for simply using the word "cracker" as an insult can be considered inherently racist or not. In the screenshots pictured above, he gives a straight-to-the-point explanation right before dropping the word that prefaces his reasoning for saying it in the first place.

The controversy over whether reverse racism is real or not is still argumentably hard to navigate in a space that rejects the discussion of power politics. However, given that Twitch slammed a ban hammer on Bruce for trying to reason shows the impartial and anti-racist ideology that the platform stands by.

Back in 2020, the livestreaming service officially banned a multitude of words, and continues to punish users for saying or typing such words on their platform in a derogatory