Twitch reverse DarksydePhil ban for \u201chateful slur\u201d and admit it was a mistake YouTube: DarksydePhilTwitch streamer Phil \u2018DarksydePhil\u2019 Burnell has had his suspension from the platform overturned, after Twitch banned his account for \u2018hateful conduct\u2019 on May 15. The streaming platform said the suspension was a \u201cmistake on our part.\u201d DarksydePhil is a longtime Twitch streamer with over 100,000 followers, who has faced a series of bans in the past, including another erroneous ban in October 2020 for a DMCA claim that was overturned. On May 15, DSP revealed that he had been handed a seven-day suspension for using a \u201chateful slur\u201d, but immediately denied that he had done so. \u201cThis DID NOT NOT HAPPEN, I have tons of people watching the stream and it simply didn\u2019t occur,\u201d he said on Twitter. \u201cI now have to appeal this bc apparently Twitch doesn\u2019t know what they are doing.\u201d So I was just suspended from Twitch for 7 days bc of a \u201chateful slur???\u201d This DID NOT NOT HAPPEN, I have tons of people watching the stream and it simply didn\u2019t occur. I now have to appeal this bc apparently Twitch doesn\u2019t know what they are doing. \u2014 Things Are HEATING UP! (@TheyCallMeDSP) May 15, 2021 DarksydePhil unbanned When users posted a clip of the incident in question, DarksydePhil claimed that he had stuttered on the word \u2018negative\u2019, and said Twitch was \u201cout of their minds.\u201d He also confirmed he had appealed the suspension but was worried it would take a number of days to fix. “”While stationary, negger, uh, negative seventy five percent damage.”” When actually reading what I’m saying on the screen, this cannot be mistaken for anything else. The N WORD?!? Twitch is out of their minds. I’ve appealed but it can take days to fix. https:\/\/t.co\/LFKHvlG570 \u2014 Things Are HEATING UP! (@TheyCallMeDSP) May 15, 2021 However, Twitch overturned the ban quickly, within a matter of hours. Sharing the message he received from the platform, DSP said he would still stream on YouTube instead, as he had already set up his channel for it. Twitch\u2019s message simply read: \u201cYour account was suspended or blocked due to a mistake on our part. I\u2019ve gone ahead and reversed this suspension on your account, so you are free to use our services once again.\u201d Twitch has just LIFTED my channel suspension and admitted they were in the wrong. However, I’m already in the process of setting up YouTube streaming, and we’re going to try it tonight (And likely tomorrow) anyway, to test the waters. This “”mistake”” forced my hand. pic.twitter.com\/n3sfupDNml \u2014 Things Are HEATING UP! (@TheyCallMeDSP) May 16, 2021 The platform also apologized for any inconvenience or confusion. DarksydePhil lost his partnership with Twitch earlier in 2021, and claimed that he was no longer going to receive payment from Twitch revenue he made. As a result, he increased his donation goals, and ran a \u2018marathon stream\u2019 as a fundraiser. However, some fans were critical of how forceful he was in asking for donations, and one fan was banned from his chat for refusing to donate through PayPal. However, on the same day that he was banned, DSP revealed that Twitch would in fact be making a payment to him that month. Fans in the replies questioned why he did the fundraiser, believing they had been scammed. DarksydePhil responded that the amount received from Twitch was less than normal, because his partnership had been ended 3 weeks into the month, therefore missing one week. For the time being, it looks like Phil will be moving to stream more on his YouTube channel instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch reverse DarksydePhil ban for \u201chateful slur\u201d and admit it was a mistake YouTube: DarksydePhilTwitch streamer Phil \u2018DarksydePhil\u2019 Burnell has had his suspension from the platform overturned, after Twitch banned his account for \u2018hateful conduct\u2019 on May 15. The streaming platform said the suspension was a \u201cmistake on our part.\u201d DarksydePhil is a longtime Twitch […]<\/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-62422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62422","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=62422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}