Trihex banned from Twitch for use of derogatory term Popular Twitch streamer Mychal \u2018Trihex\u2019 Jefferson has been banned from the platform after using a word he admits is \u201cof a derogatory nature.\u201d Trihex has been streaming on Twitch for years, and is also known as the face of the \u2018TriHard\u2019 emote \u2013 which itself has been the subject of controversy. Over his time on Twitch, he has been vocal about social issues, particularly racism, as the TriHard emote has been notoriously used in a disparaging way. When Twitch added a KFC emote, TriHex was bemused, asking \u201cdo no black people work at Twitch?\u201d Now it is Trihex himself being reprimanded however, handed a ban for using a homophobic term, a word that Twitch has been particularly strict about. Following his ban, Trihex took to Twitter to post a statement, explaining that the word was in his subconscious because in the past he \u201cfrequented portions of the internet and chatrooms where such language was normalized.\u201d He goes on to say he did not intend to \u201cdemean any persons of marginalization\u201d, and acknowledges use of the word is \u201cnot okay.\u201d It is not known how long his ban will last, but precedent tells us it will be 30 days. Another popular streamer, Mohamad \u201cm0E\u201d Assad, was banned for 30 days after using the same word, and it was his first violation. Some fans have pointed out an inconsistency in Twitch\u2019s application of the Terms of Service, citing instances of other streamers who have evaded bans, some for arguably worse breaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trihex banned from Twitch for use of derogatory term Popular Twitch streamer Mychal \u2018Trihex\u2019 Jefferson has been banned from the platform after using a word he admits is \u201cof a derogatory nature.\u201d Trihex has been streaming on Twitch for years, and is also known as the face of the \u2018TriHard\u2019 emote \u2013 which itself has […]<\/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-62013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62013","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=62013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}