Streamer banned for viewing BTTV emote calls out Twitch for \u201cfavoritism\u201d YouTube\/AlternateAUA Twitch streamer, who was banned for a week after viewing a BTTV emote during a broadcast, is calling out the Amazon-owned platform for favoritism and inconsistency. AlternateAU was hit with a whopping seven-day suspension on May 11 after he viewed an emote featuring two naked men spanking each other on the front page of the BTTV site. BTTV, also known as BetterTTV, is a browser extension that enhances the Twitch experience by providing new emotes and other features not found on the standard version of the site. After viewing the emote, AlternateAU was hit with a seven-day suspension \u2013 despite the fact the streamer had a clean record for three straight years. https:\/\/twitter.com\/alternate_AU\/status\/1392047803694600193? In a YouTube video posted on May 13, the streamer blasted Twitch for its policies, claiming that it has no idea how to properly take action against terms of service violations. \u201cThey don\u2019t even know what they should and shouldn\u2019t be banning for and for how long!\u201d the streamer exclaimed. \u201cThere does seem to be some form of favoritism as well, I think we can all agree on that, you know.\u201d While the streamer insisted that he believes Twitch was, in fact, right to ban him and his judgment was poor to view it to begin with, he feels a full week is excessive given this was his first violation. \u201cThere is a problem on Twitch at the moment with what they feel is deemed as TOS and what they feel isn\u2019t,\u201d the streamer said. \u201cFor starters, we\u2019ve all seen streamers in the past banned for full-blown nudity, spreading themselves. I think we all know who that is. And then they\u2019ll get a three day ban.\u201d Read More: Evander Holyfield wants to fight Jake Paul – AlternateAU then brought up how another streamer received a week long ban for engaging in sexual content while watching a hot tub stream, which really put his own suspension in perspective. \u201cYou\u2019re saying [the emote is] on the same level?\u201d the streamer rhetorically asked. \u201cI can\u2019t see that there.\u201d Speaking of the hot tub meta, AlternateAU also explained that he doesn\u2019t feel it\u2019s good for the platform and believes those streamers are abusing a loophole that allows that type of content to begin with. Given all the controversies involving Twitch nowadays, some feel that it seems a bit overkill to ban the streamer for a full week over an emote. It\u2019s unclear whether AlternateAU requested an appeal or tried to get the punishment reduced, but so far, it seems like the Australian will need to wait another few days to finally return to Twitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Streamer banned for viewing BTTV emote calls out Twitch for \u201cfavoritism\u201d YouTube\/AlternateAUA Twitch streamer, who was banned for a week after viewing a BTTV emote during a broadcast, is calling out the Amazon-owned platform for favoritism and inconsistency. AlternateAU was hit with a whopping seven-day suspension on May 11 after he viewed an emote featuring […]<\/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-59330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59330","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=59330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}