Streamer Bruce Ray calls out Twitch after being banned for saying \u201ccracker\u201d YouTube: BruceDropEmOffTwitch streamer Bruce Ray, who goes by BruceDropEmOff on the platform, has had his channel suspended after using the term \u2018cracker\u2019 in chat. He has since called Twitch out for their failure to protect people of color as consistently. On December 21, Ray confirmed the cause for his channel\u2019s ban was \u201cfor saying \u2018cracker\u2019 in a chat.\u201d This word has been at the center of the most recent Twitch controversy, after one of the biggest streamers on Twitch, Hasan Piker, was banned for a week for claiming that the word is not racist, and using it openly on his own channel. Subsequently, two other streamers were also banned over their use of the word. Hasan\u2019s suspension has now been lifted, and he has returned to streaming \u2013 but Twitch\u2019s stance on the word has not changed. Bruce Ray banned over \u2018cracker\u2019 use BruceDropEmOff on Twitch had over 400,000 followers on his channel at the time of his suspension, where he plays a variety of games and often is found in the \u2018Just Chatting\u2019 section. After the ban, Ray posted screenshots of chat messages sent from his account, writing \u201cyou can\u2019t be racist towards white people,\u201d and \u201cthat word is not racist.\u201d What I got banned for #FreeDEO #BlackKing pic.twitter.com\/Ffphu4S62Z \u2014 Bruce Ray (@raycondones) December 21, 2021 Hasan supported Bruce, posting \u201cTwitch needs to stop capitulating to white supremacists and those doing white identity politics, you are making the platform a worse place overall.\u201d twitch needs to stop capitulating to white supremacists and those doing white identity politics, you are making the platform a worse place overall. #FreeDEO https:\/\/t.co\/YTCJhC9f3N \u2014 hasanabi (@hasanthehun) December 21, 2021 Other streamers also backed Bruce, with QTCinderella calling the platform \u201cbig dumb dumb heads.\u201d Yo @Twitch I gave @raycondones the pass. Please fucking unban him you big dumb dumb heads. \u2014 QTCinderella (@qtcinderella) December 21, 2021 Bruce Ray calls out Twitch Ray followed up by expressing disappointment that Twitch is not as consistent with protecting people of color, as they were with handing out bans for the use of \u2018cracker.\u2019 I wish twitch was this consistent protecting people of color. \u2014 Bruce Ray (@raycondones) December 21, 2021 Fans and others supporting Ray following the suspension have started the #FreeDEO hashtag, which was trending on Twitter on December 22. It even broke out of the Twitch community, with rapper Lil Yachty (who has streamed on Twitch before and appeared on Ray\u2019s stream) posting with the hashtag. https:\/\/twitter.com\/lilyachty\/status\/1473430538706993152 Twitch has not yet made a public statement about the bans for using the word, and has not responded to requests for comment. Twitch community guidelines state that \u201cusing hateful slurs, either untargeted or directed towards another individual,\u201d is prohibited. However, it continues, \u201cwe allow certain words or terms, which might otherwise violate our policy, to be used in an empowering way or as terms of endearment when such intent is clear.\u201d The string of bans indicates that there is a low tolerance for the term cracker on the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Streamer Bruce Ray calls out Twitch after being banned for saying \u201ccracker\u201d YouTube: BruceDropEmOffTwitch streamer Bruce Ray, who goes by BruceDropEmOff on the platform, has had his channel suspended after using the term \u2018cracker\u2019 in chat. He has since called Twitch out for their failure to protect people of color as consistently. On December 21, […]<\/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-59342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59342","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=59342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}