Twitch star Chica teases move to Kick after platform bans seemingly innocent chicken emote Twitch \/ Twitch: ChicaMega-popular streamer Chica has jokingly teased a career pivot from Twitch to new upstart Kick after the Amazon-owned platform removed a seemingly innocent chicken emote. It hasn\u2019t exactly been the smoothest start to 2023 for Twitch. From mass layoffs impacting thousands of employees to a shift at the very top with veteran CEO Emmett Shear resigning after 16 years, the boat has certainly been rocked in recent weeks. In the meantime, surging rival Kick has been gathering momentum, for better or worse, with internet celeb Trainwrecks largely steering the ship. Now, another Twitch star has teased a departure from the platform amid its struggles, albeit in jest, after having one of their seemingly innocuous emotes banned. While this is nothing new in and of itself, seeing as various emotes are banned for violating the Twitch terms of service more often than not, this particular instance has exploded on social media given the nature of the little chat icon. Chica\u2019s theme featuring adorable chicken emotes led to the inclusion of one known to her chat as \u2018chicaL.\u2019 This emote featured the chicken holding its hand to its head in the shape of an \u2018L\u2019. This alone was enough to be blocked on the platform for \u201ctargeted insults, bullying, and threatening or inciting abuse.\u201d Sharing the news with her audience on Twitter, Chica simply posted the decision from Twitch with an accompanying link to Kick. It just so happens she\u2019s already secured a verified account on the platform in the event she did make the jump, though it appears unlikely given this post was made in jest. Dozens of fans chimed in below in disbelief that this seemingly innocent emote was removed from the platform for the reasons listed above. \u201cWhat is happening over here?\u201d one fellow personality asked. \u201cAin\u2019t no way,\u201d another added. \u201cWhat is Twitch even doing anymore?\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s actually so ridiculous,\u201d LuluLuvely replied. \u201cFor what?\u201d Anne Munition questioned. Meanwhile, a number of other streamers on the platform explained how a similar crackdown on emotes has also impacted them. \u201cSame,\u201d FaZe star Kalei said. \u201cThey took mine too,\u201d dakotaz also revealed. \u201cI think they\u2019re removing any emotes with single letters because people would use them to write bad stuff. I had my \u2018F\u2019 emote removed too,\u201d Natarsha explained. Among those responding to the news was none other than Trainwrecks himself, adding to the discussion with a set of laughing emojis and nothing more. Naturally, Twitch is yet to respond to the backlash and provide further clarity on the widespread emote removal. Given the platform historically remains silent at times like this, it\u2019d be wise not to hold your breath in waiting to hear more. Though in the event further details emerge, we\u2019ll be sure to update you here with all the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch star Chica teases move to Kick after platform bans seemingly innocent chicken emote Twitch \/ Twitch: ChicaMega-popular streamer Chica has jokingly teased a career pivot from Twitch to new upstart Kick after the Amazon-owned platform removed a seemingly innocent chicken emote. It hasn\u2019t exactly been the smoothest start to 2023 for Twitch. From mass […]<\/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-62458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62458","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=62458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}