Apex Legends streamer banned on Twitch after threatening teammate\u2019s family Twitch \/ Respawn EntertainmentTwitch has moved to ban an Apex Legends streamer called Captain Valenti after he was caught using toxic language live on air. The outburst made towards one of his own teammates \u2013 which has been described as \u2018career suicide\u2019 by viewers \u2013 included two remarks that ultimately violated Twitch\u2019s rules. In one instance, he threatened to kill the full family of a player on his Arenas squad, and in another moment called them a \u201cf**king homosexual.\u201d In their Community Guidelines, they specifically state that \u201cattempts or threats to physically harm or kill others\u201d is a zero-tolerance offense, and these cases are met with indefinite suspensions. Apex streamer banned on Twitch after live outburst The player targeted by the abuse is called cirohsa, who has since tweeted about their experience. Along with the clip, they said: \u201cLet\u2019s get this guy banned.\u201d Warning: Strong language in the clip below. https:\/\/twitter.com\/cirohsa\/status\/1478919176601407490 The video footage has since been forwarded to members of the Apex Legends development team at Respawn Entertainment and has been noticed by multiple streamers as well. 100 Thieves\u2019 Vein said: \u201cThis is actually disgusting.\u201dAnother added: \u201cFastest career suicide I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d A second clip, tweeted out by cirohsa, showed the start of their interaction \u2013 where she simply asked him to stop dying. https:\/\/twitter.com\/cirohsa\/status\/1478913044554076163 Speaking to Dexerto, cirohsa said: \u201cIt\u2019s not the first time I have run into people like this, but usually they aren\u2019t streaming.\u201d Now that Captain Valenti\u2019s Twitch channel can only be accessed with a time machine, it remains to be seen as to whether or not he will return to the platform. The length of the ban has also not been confirmed. Dexerto understands that Valenti has been flagged by Respawn internally for a potential account ban and a member of the dev team reached out to the player directly to resolve the matter swiftly. Once again, a clear message has been sent out by the team: Toxicity does not belong in Apex Legends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends streamer banned on Twitch after threatening teammate\u2019s family Twitch \/ Respawn EntertainmentTwitch has moved to ban an Apex Legends streamer called Captain Valenti after he was caught using toxic language live on air. The outburst made towards one of his own teammates \u2013 which has been described as \u2018career suicide\u2019 by viewers \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}