IRL streaming bounty hunter confirms why he was permanently banned StephenIRLUPDATE: StephenIRL has been unbanned from Twitch as of October 12, comments pending. Well-known Twitch bounty hunter \u201cStephenIRL\u201d has been permanently banned from the site with next to no warning from the platform. While many viewers think of Twitch as a haven for live streamed video games or \u201cJust Chatting\u201d segments, the site boasts a surprisingly wide array of content \u2013 including IRL (in real life) streaming. StephenIRL is one of the most popular bounty hunters on Twitch, meaning that he tracks down people with warrants and takes them into a police station as his job. However, it doesn\u2019t look like he\u2019ll be doing that while streaming on Twitch any longer. Stephen was permanently banned from Twitch on September 11, revealing that he\u2019d been booted from the site because he brandished a weapon on stream. \u201cOfficial reason is \u2018brandishing\u2019 a weapon,\u201d he said in a response to a fan asking why he\u2019d been banned. Needless to say, his viewers aren\u2019t happy about this development, and have voiced their support for him on Twitter in his replies. StephenIRL said he has since appealed the ban but won\u2019t be able to stream as usual until the appeal is accepted. As of right now, there\u2019s no telling when, or if, that will happen. It\u2019s hard to bounce back from receiving a permanent ban from the source of your livelihood \u2013 but a move to alternative streaming platforms like Mixer or YouTube could provide a solution in the interim. The streamer uploaded a broadcast on YouTube talking about the incident but has since taken it down in an effort to prevent toxicity. \u201cAlready streamed it and took it down,\u201d he said of the explanatory stream. \u201cI don\u2019t want anything taken out of context and interpreted as toxic.\u201d Already streamed it and took it down. I don’t want anything taken out of context and interpreted as toxic. \u2014 Stephen (@StephenIRL_) September 12, 2019 StephenIRL created his Twitch account in 2017 according to TwitchMetrics and boasted just over 90,000 followers at the time of his ban. We will keep you updated on whether Twitch overturns his ban after an appeal, but at the moment, it isn\u2019t looking very good for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
IRL streaming bounty hunter confirms why he was permanently banned StephenIRLUPDATE: StephenIRL has been unbanned from Twitch as of October 12, comments pending. Well-known Twitch bounty hunter \u201cStephenIRL\u201d has been permanently banned from the site with next to no warning from the platform. While many viewers think of Twitch as a haven for live streamed […]<\/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-50656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50656","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=50656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}