Greekgodx responds after Twitch ban for \u201chateful\u201d gender comments Popular Twitch streamer Dimitri \u2018Greekgodx\u2019 Antonatos has apologized after receiving a suspension from the platform, following comments about gender which broke the community guidelines on hateful conduct. Greekgodx is one of the most popular British streamers on all of Twitch, broadcasting a variety of content from gaming, talk shows, and IRL (in-real-life) streams \u2013 amassing almost 900,000 followers. His streams have been brought to a sudden end though, at least temporarily, after comments he made about gender options on music sharing website SoundCloud. During a stream in September, Antonatos suggested that SoundCloud was \u2018catering to cucks\u2019 by having the options \u201cother\u201d and \u201cprefer not to say\u201d in the gender selection when making an account. \u201cFuck off \u2013 if you put \u2018other\u2019, they should say \u2018sorry, SoundCloud is not for you’\u201d Greek said, sparking controversy, as such comments have seen other streamers suspended or even permanently banned from Twitch. After being banned on September 19, Greekgodx confirmed that his comments about gender were the reason for the punishment, and apologized for any offense he may have caused. \u201cIt was a joke and I\u2019m really sorry to anyone I offended,\u201d the streamer explained, \u201cI didn\u2019t mean to be hurtful or hateful.\u201d Got banned for a silly comment about gender i just wanted to say it was a joke and i’m really sorry to anyone i offended. i didn’t mean to be hurtful or hateful. ill update u guys on how long the ban is for when i can. \u2014 Dimitri (@GGXupdates) September 19, 2019 The reason for the ban likely falls under Twitch\u2019s community guidelines on \u201chateful conduct\u201d, which prohibits any content or activities that \u201cpromotes, encourages, or facilitates discrimination, denigration, objectification, harassment, or violence\u201d based on gender, gender identity or sexual orientation. \u201cAny hateful conduct is considered a zero-tolerance violation,\u201d Twitch states. \u201cWe will take action on all accounts associated with such conduct with a range of enforcement actions, including and up to indefinite suspension.\u201d The length of Greek\u2019s ban has not been confirmed, although because it is not his first suspension it could be a longer period. Twitch bans typically run either 24 hours, three days, seven days or 30 days, with severe violations earning a permanent ban. He has fallen foul of the platform\u2019s rules in the past, previously in April 2018 after a photoshopped image of another streamer lying nude was displayed on his broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greekgodx responds after Twitch ban for \u201chateful\u201d gender comments Popular Twitch streamer Dimitri \u2018Greekgodx\u2019 Antonatos has apologized after receiving a suspension from the platform, following comments about gender which broke the community guidelines on hateful conduct. Greekgodx is one of the most popular British streamers on all of Twitch, broadcasting a variety of content from […]<\/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-49204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49204","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=49204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}