Jenna loses Twitch partnership following racist DM scandal Instagram: JennaTwitch has revoked popular streamer Jenna\u2019s partnership with the broadcasting platform, after a series of old messages containing racist and homophobic slurs from her Discord channel came to light on social media on January 13. The personality became the center of a controversy after racist and homophobic messages sent on her private Discord server\u2014some of which dated back to 2016, and as recently as December 2019\u2014were made public on \/r\/livestreamfails. The thread hit over 30,000 upvotes, and landed on Reddit\u2019s front page before being deleted by moderators. Jenna responded soon after with an apology, and released a second just days later admitting what she did was \u201cincredibly wrong.\u201d Now, 16 days after the initial release of the messages, Twitch has made the move to strip Jenna of her partnership on the Amazon-owned platform. She is still able to stream, but she will have no partner or affiliate benefits. \u201cI was unpartnered on Twitch today. I understand and respect their decision, and I am happy they are standing against hate,\u201d the 21-year-old said, after confirming the news. \u201cIt brings me joy I am in a community that will protect the oppressed.\u201d Jenna also added a message directed at Twitch, suggesting she was aiming to return to the partnership program in the future: \u201c If you allow me, I will regain your trust, and the community\u2019s, with my future actions.\u201d I was unpartnered with @Twitch today. I understand and respect their decision and Im happy they are standing against hate. It brings me joy I am in a community that will protect the oppressed. If you allow me, I will regain your trust and the community\u2019s with my future actions pic.twitter.com\/oad2WTEKmI \u2014 \ud83c\udf38Jenna\ud83c\udf38 (@KittyCatJenna) January 30, 2020 Those sentiments echoed a similar message from Jenna when she was first \u201cblindsided\u201d by the initial Reddit post. The streamer, who boasts more than 263,000 followers, added she wanted to make the most of this \u201clife-changing experience.\u201d \u201cI am truly grateful for this\u2026 because it has caused me to open my eyes to the reality of my harmful words and behavior. I truly do care for people, and I genuinely am sorry if I ever hurt anyone with my words,\u201d she said on January 17. \u201cI want people to simply exist in peace without feeling unaccepted, misunderstood, or that they aren\u2019t loved. I hope that this change in myself and my community will help these goals be reached.\u201d Jenna has yet to officially confirm whether she\u2019ll be remaining on Twitch after losing her elite status, though it appears she\u2019s staying put for the time being considering she wants to \u201cprove herself\u201d to the Amazon-owned platform once more. The de-partnered personality hasn\u2019t returned with a livestream since the DMs were first leaked, and has given no indication when she may return. She has still been active on Instagram, however, where she boasts 228,000 followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jenna loses Twitch partnership following racist DM scandal Instagram: JennaTwitch has revoked popular streamer Jenna\u2019s partnership with the broadcasting platform, after a series of old messages containing racist and homophobic slurs from her Discord channel came to light on social media on January 13. The personality became the center of a controversy after racist and […]<\/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-51956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51956","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=51956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}