Twitch bans streamer\u2019s adorable hippo emote for \u2018sexual\u2019 content Twitch\/ScummNTwitch is under fire for banning a Warzone streamer\u2019s hippo emote for sexual content, much to the chagrin of his fans. Emotes are a major part of Twitch culture with streamers creating their own for viewers to gain access to by subscribing. Sadly, in recent months, some have been disallowed for some strange reasons. For instance, in July, the Amazon-owned platform pulled ConnorEatsPants\u2019 dancing money emote for sexual content, sparking plenty of debate over its removal. Now, on August 8, Warzone streamer ScummN\u2019s emote of a hippo with its back turned to look at the camera was removed for containing sexual imagery \u2013 something that confused the streamer and his fans. Warzone streamer baffled after Twitch bans hippo emote In a screenshot, ScummN shared an email from Twitch claiming his scummnSUSSY emote contained nudity and sexual content. His fans did not take too kindly to the decision. \u201cThey took away the best emote on Twitch,\u201d one remarked. \u201cWeek ruined because of this,\u201d said another. Some viewers even claimed they were unsubbing because they wouldn\u2019t be able to use the emote anymore. It\u2019s not clear exactly why Twitch viewed the emote in a sexual light and decided to ban it, but given the site doesn\u2019t comment on individual bans or channels, it\u2019s unlikely we\u2019re going to find out any time soon. ScummN didn\u2019t say whether or not he plans to appeal the decision or remake the emote in a slightly different way, but it will be interesting to see how the streamer deals with this situation so his fans can get back to using it or something similar on Twitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch bans streamer\u2019s adorable hippo emote for \u2018sexual\u2019 content Twitch\/ScummNTwitch is under fire for banning a Warzone streamer\u2019s hippo emote for sexual content, much to the chagrin of his fans. Emotes are a major part of Twitch culture with streamers creating their own for viewers to gain access to by subscribing. Sadly, in recent months, […]<\/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-62236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62236","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=62236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}