Contentious streamer Quin69 has been banned again from Twitch
Controversial streamer Quintin "Quin69" was handed another ban from Twitch on October 25. This is the fourth time that the streamer has been suspended from the purple platform this year alone, and the actual reason has yet to be identified.
The news was broken on Twitter by the automated service StreamerBans. Unsurprisingly, it has already ignited debate around the circumstances of the ban. Going to his channel on the purple platform presents this message:
Having courted controversies pertaining to racism and se*ism in the past, many in the streaming community wondered why he had gotten banned this time. In fact, certain viewers expressed their feelings by resorting to onliners such as "Again?":
A few comments on Twitter felt that he would be facing permanent bans if he isn't careful enough.
Streamer-oriented subreddit r/LivestreamFail also had many reactions, with some frequent watchers attempting to solve the mystery of Quin69's most recent suspension. A Redditor by the moniker "giantpea" thought that the most plausible reason was because he had equated wearing turbans to terrorism.
The Redditor even provided a link to VOD which was uploaded to YouTube on October 23 and has been embedded below.
Timestamp 5:01:19
After talking about how difficult it is to dry one's long hair, the New Zealander says this about the turbans:
The explanation had quite a few takers too, who believed it to be quite offensive and worthy of a ban:
Others had complaints about Twitch's whimsical ban tendencies.
According to TwitchTracker, at the time of the ban, Quin69 had 707K followers on the platform and around 10K average concurrent viewership. As of writing this piece, neither the streamer nor Twitch have revealed any details about the suspension.
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