Valkyrae reveals she is still shadow banned on Twitch
While talking about Twitchcon recently, Valkyrae revealed that she was shadow banned on the website. Shadow banning is when someone is banned in almost every sense of the word, but they aren't outright prevented from using the platform altogether. She can still stream there, but as of this writing, her account does not come up in searches.
The streamer and Ramee discussed this, but not everyone is convinced that this is the real reason why the streamer doesn’t come up in searches on Twitch anymore.
On March 11, 2022, Valkyrae was streaming with Ramee, and the topic of discussion was Twitchcon. Ramee wasn’t sure if he could go to the convention, since he now streams on Facebook, and she assured him that wasn’t the case.
After saying it would be messed up if they banned people from attending simply because they stopped streaming on Twitch, she just blurted out:
The streamer said that if you search for Valkyrae on Twitch, her profile will no longer show up in the results. Only another user with a similar name, and Sykkuno, showed up.
Wanting to verify what she said, Ramee searched for Valkyrae during the stream and sure enough, she didn't show up in the search results. Fans will have to go directly to the stream via a link to view her channel at all.
Valkyrae added:
However, there are users who don’t quite agree with the streamer's statement. According to some YouTube commenters, the streamer is just an inactive user on the platform instead of a shadow banned one.
Some users felt Twitch was just being petty, and that the platform really did shadow ban the streamer, though there were far more dissenting opinions on the topic.
Some users said that if a shadow ban was in place, it’s smart. This is because the algorithm should only be
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