CS:GO star s1mple reportedly banned from Twitch for homophobic slur TwitchCS:GO star Oleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2019 Kostyliev\u2019s Twitch channel has been removed from the platform because the player used a homophobic slur during an FPL game, according to esports journalist Rod \u2018Slasher\u2019 Breslau. S1mple is a professional CS:GO player for Natus Vincere, widely considered one of the best players in the world. Fans quickly noticed as his Twitch channel suddenly became unavailable on the platform sometime on August 13, quickly searching for answers. Why was s1mple\u2019s Twitch channel removed? UPDATE 8\/13: Esports insider Slasher tweeted that s1mple had been removed from Twitch for one week for using a homophobic slur during a July 29 FPL game. s1mple has been suspended from Twitch for one week source with knowledge confirms this is indeed because s1mple used a homophobic slur (pidor) jokingly during a July 29th FPL game to his NaVi teammate Boombl4 here’s the clip, a CIS editor even made a meme video two weeks ago pic.twitter.com\/pQmx9kk7iR \u2014 Rod Breslau (@Slasher) August 13, 2019 At the time of writing the exact reason for s1mple\u2019s channel being struck from Twitch is still unknown. Dexerto has reached out to s1mple and Na\u2019Vi for clarification; Twitch does not comment on channel removals. Twitch bans can happen for any number of reasons or violation of the site\u2019s Terms of Service, Community guidelines or a possible DMCA strike. According to Twitch stat trackers, s1mple hasn\u2019t streamed since August 7, and the takedown appears to have happened almost a week later. S1mple\u2019s channel being removed seems to have everyone \u2013 from CS:GO pros to fellow Twitch streamers \u2013 confused. \u201cWhy is s1mple banned on twitch?\u201d CS:GO Twitch streamer Mohamad \u2018m0E\u2019 Assad asked on Twitter. Twitch suspensions typically vary from 24 hours, to three days, to 30 days, to permanent, depending on the severity of the incident or repeated infractions. We will update this article when more information becomes available about s1mple\u2019s Twitch ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CS:GO star s1mple reportedly banned from Twitch for homophobic slur TwitchCS:GO star Oleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2019 Kostyliev\u2019s Twitch channel has been removed from the platform because the player used a homophobic slur during an FPL game, according to esports journalist Rod \u2018Slasher\u2019 Breslau. S1mple is a professional CS:GO player for Natus Vincere, widely considered one of the […]<\/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-46404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46404","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=46404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}