At the onset of 2022, internet personality and prominent content creator Jidon "JiDion" Adams was indefinitely banned from Twitch. JiDion went viral in January 2022 after hate-brigading Twitch star Imane "Pokimane." He had instructed his viewers to spam the infamous phrase "L + Ratio" on the Moroccan-Canadian personality's Twitch chat.
Shortly after this, the YouTuber was suspended for 14 days, which was later extended to an indefinite ban.
In this article, we'll take a look at JiDion's controversial Twitch ban and look at the possibility of him returning to the livestreaming platform.
The catalyst for the debacle can be traced back to January 3, 2022, when Adams shared his thoughts on Pokimane by tweeting:
A week later (on January 12), Pokimane noticed that her Twitch chat was being spammed by the phrase "L + Ratio," which visibly annoyed the OfflineTV co-founder.
She initially speculated that her chat room was being botted. Upon realizing that it was another content creator's fanbase, Pokimane remarked:
Following the hate brigade, Adams informed his community that Twitch had suspended him for two weeks:
He then admitted that he deserved the suspension for violating the Terms of Service (ToS) of the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform:
However, on January 17, JiDion shared a minute-long video, revealing that he had been permanently banned from Twitch. He urged the purple platform not to consider external factors in their decision and requested his followers to trend the hashtag #twitchfreejiDion. He stated:
On July 14, six months after the controversy, the 21-year-old streamer revealed that he had spoken to a Twitch representative through a Zoom call. He went on to say that he would "never come back" to the platform:
Adams then
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