Content creators get banned from Twitch every day, and at this point viewers are used to many of their favorite streamers taking an unplanned hiatus for a few days every now and then. However, Twitch has been accused of not being transparent enough about bans, and the streaming platform is notorious, deservedly or not, for letting off its more popular personalities with little more than a slap on the wrist. Perhaps it’s due to this ongoing criticism of Twitch’s seemingly haphazard enforcement of its own terms of service that the platform has begun cracking down more regularly on high-profile users.
Just last month, Adin Ross was indefinitely banned from Twitch for using a homophobic slur on another person’s stream. While the ban itself may not be surprising, given the reason, some people were taken aback by the perceived severity of the punishment. Adin Ross has been rapidly growing in popularity on Twitch, approaching six million followers. Likewise, ItsSliker, another popular Twitch streamer, recently received a three-day ban for using an emote that violated the platform’s ToS. That ban was reversed after just one day.
xQc Wants Twitch Stream Snipers To Be Banned
Now another high-profile personality has been banned from Twitch, though this time the punishment is slightly comical. DrLupo's Twitch account received a seven-day ban after the content creator visited Ninja’s stream and typed something that the platform considered either “unsolicited sexual advances” or “graphic and vulgar sexual comments.” DrLupo once had an exclusivity deal with Twitch worth millions of dollars, but the streamer signed a new contract with YouTube in August 2021 and has since been creating content for that platform instead.
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