Streamer \u2018YourMotherIsaFish\u2019 hits out at Twitch after ban for \u201cHarassment via Username\u201d Twitter: @yourmotherisafiContent creator \u201cYourMotherIsaFish\u201d has been hit with an indefinite Twitch ban, with the reason given \u201cHarassment via Username.\u201d The ban has now been lifted. A Twitch streamer for many years, \u201cYourmotherisafish\u201d was handed an indefinite Twitch ban on April 11. The streamer reports that this happened right in the middle of her Resident Evil 3 stream. \u201cThere\u2019s no way, @TwitchSupport I just got banned LIVE for my username, even though you\u2019ve used my clip with it before and it was fine,\u201d Fish shared on Twitter moments after being banned from the platform. According to the ban notification, the \u201cyourmotherisafish\u201d name constituted \u201charassment via username\u201d, violating the platform\u2019s community guidelines. Curiously, other users and Fish herself were quick to point out that official Twitch media previously used clips from her live stream which often featured her full username. Former Twitch staff member djWHEAT tweeted: \u201cI\u2019d say you\u2019ve got reasonable grounds for an appeal,\u201d featuring a screenshot of a post from the official Twitch account featuring Fish and her full username. Twitch lifts ban for \u201charassment\u201d via username On April 12, the ban was lifted, as the official Twitch Support account responded to the streamer. \u201cHey Fish, our team doesn\u2019t work directly on safety issues such as this, though a member of the Safety team has informed us that this suspension has been removed. Apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience whilst the relevant team investigated this,\u201d wrote a member of the support team. This is not the first time however that streamers have been left stumped by bans due to their username. In 2020, streamer \u201cPiece of Sheet\u201d was banned for an \u201cinappropriate\u201d username, as was \u201cPajja.\u201d Some of these bans could be automated, as Twitch attempts to crack down on real harassment through the use of offensive usernames. Bot accounts with hateful usernames have been used in \u201chate raids\u201d in the past, as usernames are not picked up by automod like chat messages are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Streamer \u2018YourMotherIsaFish\u2019 hits out at Twitch after ban for \u201cHarassment via Username\u201d Twitter: @yourmotherisafiContent creator \u201cYourMotherIsaFish\u201d has been hit with an indefinite Twitch ban, with the reason given \u201cHarassment via Username.\u201d The ban has now been lifted. A Twitch streamer for many years, \u201cYourmotherisafish\u201d was handed an indefinite Twitch ban on April 11. The streamer […]<\/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-59498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59498","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=59498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}