Twitch as a streaming platform has become stricter towards streamers and content creators. The Terms of Service (ToS) have become way more restrictive over the years, leading to several high-profile streamers receiving at least two-day worth of suspensions from the platform.
In 2021, the Twitch streaming meta shifted a lot over the course of months, which included hot tub meta, reacting meta where streamers watched copyrighted content like Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares and gambling meta.
A number of them hopped into various types of content. Some managed to get away, while some received a ban hammer. Here are the five Twitch streamers who have been banned from the platform in the past.
xQc has become one of the most popular streamers and content creators on the platform. The former professional Overwatch professional and Winston one-trick was handed out two bans on Twitch in the year 2021.
One of his channel bans was in August when the xQc received a day’s worth of bans for streaming copyrighted content. He was streaming the televised version of the Olympics, broadcasted in Tokyo. This was classified as a DMCA-related offense.
Hasan “HasanAbi” is one of the few political commentators and a popular Just Chatting streamer. He is one of the three Twitch content creators recently banned for using the racial slur cra***r.
Hasan’s two moderators were seen using racial slurs in the Twitch chat, to which they received an indefinite ban on their respective accounts. After this, Hasan jumped on to defend them, and he himself received a ban hammer from the Twitch staff. He was given a seven-day suspension in December 2021.
Rebecca “JustAMinx” is one of the most recent banned streamers who received a ban on the platform on February
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