Twitch Streamer TheGrefg Banned for 2nd Time
Streamers get banned from Twitch every day, sometimes for behavior that clearly violates the platform’s terms of service and sometimes for more obtuse reasons. Occasionally, bots suspend accounts accidentally, like when streamers got banned from Twitch for playing Madden NFL during the Super Bowl. It’s not often, however, that a content creator’s removal from the platform is ironic like streamer TheGrefg’s was.
A Spanish YouTuber and Twitch streamer, David “TheGrefg” Canovas Martinez also owns the esports organization Team Heretics. One of its members, Brunenger, was banned from Twitch in May 2021, and TheGrefg brought the content creator onto his stream on March 10, 2022, to discuss the situation and critique Twitch’s ban policy. Although Brunenger wore a costume astronaut helmet with a dark visor the entire time, TheGrefg knew that he was taking a chance when he invited the banned content creator onto his channel.
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Not surprisingly, on March 22, TheGrefg shared on Twitter that he had received a three-day ban from Twitch for having Brunenger on his stream. Translated from Spanish, the content creator seemed to take the situation in stride, stating, “I knew I put myself at risk doing something like this, and this is the punishment. I’ll be back on Friday.”
Brunenger has been unable to stream on Twitch for nearly a year now, and the platform has given him no date when he might return. It seemed important to TheGrefg to allow his friend to share his frustration about the seemingly arbitrary doling out of punishments that many streamers experience on Twitch. While some bans are clearcut, such as Twitch streamers participating in hate raids or
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