Streaming community divided after Twitch removes ConnorEatsPants' dancing monkey emote

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Twitch streamer and YouTuber Connor "ConnorEatsPants" took to his alternative Twitter handle conar (@subtoconnorpls) on July 26 to reveal that Twitch had removed his famous dancing monkey emoticon.

According to Twitch, they removed Connor's "connor6Monkey" emote from the available list of subscriber-exclusive emotes because it was categorized as disallowed content due to "nudity" and "sexual content."

A few hours after the initial post, Connor posted another update stating that he did not want to turn the conversation into a "but you allow hot tub streams" subject as he wanted to get a proper justification for the emoticon's removal from the livestreaming platform.

The streamer's update went viral on the social media platform, as it attracted well over 20k likes and more than 290 fans provided their take on the peculiar situation. Fellow Twitch streamer Will Neff referred to Twitch as being "fascists about emotes" as they removed three of his channel emoticons:

ConnorEatsPants stated that he is up for a fight with Twitch to reinstate his as well as Will Neff's removed emotes:

Twitter user Zach (@Skihax) failed to understand how Twitch decided to categorize the dancing monkey emote as "sexual content." He also speculated that decisions like this would make third-party services like Better TwitchTV, FrankerFaceZ, and 7TV more popular:

Several viewers expressed their distraught at the removal of the emote:

While some fans suggested that ConnorEatsPants should consider switching to YouTube Gaming Live:

Others stated that YouTube does not have proper emoticon functionality, however, it can easily dominate Twitch if the Google-owned livestreaming platform improves its chat room and DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) system:

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