"Back to YouTube": Comment Etiquette handed 30-day ban by Twitch after saying 'cracker' on stream
Erik "Comment Etiquette" Hoffstad has revealed that he received a 30-day suspension from Twitch, following a comment he made on stream. The YouTuber, who doesn't use Twitch very often, had done a casual stream on the platform where he was interacting with his viewers while writing a script.
After answering someone's question asking him what his "favorite slur for White people" was, he was handed a month-long suspension from the platform.
Hoffstad has been on the YouTube scene for more than six years. For a once-in-a-blue-moon occasion, the content creator appeared on Twitch to host a chill, casual stream. However, things didn't go down as planned.
Hoffstad was banned after his latest livestream and his account will be held on suspension for at least 30 days before he is allowed to return. Seemingly, the content creator doesn't hold any intent to do so.
He later tagged Twitch in a tweet, stating that he wouldn't stop saying the word in retaliation for his ban.
Users of Livestream Fail were perplexed at the creator's ban as well, joking about the baked snack in a variety of ways.
One user brought up a clip of Steve Kenneth "Destiny" Bonnell II using the word with an allegedly different intent, wondering why he wasn't banned if Hoffstad was given one.
The clip that led to his ban has since been taken down. It is currently available to view on the Livestreamfails site.
At the time, Hoffstad had coincidentally been talking about the process of getting banned from Twitch in an unknown context, saying,
Someone in his Twitch chat had presumedly asked him something regarding giving moderator privileges to monitor the forum, to which Hoffstad replied,
Not even a second after that, Hoffstad read out the damning comment that led to his
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