Twitch streamers beg for help after platform reportedly blocks payment withdrawals TwitchA number of Twitch streamers from the Middle East have allegedly been unable to cash out from the site and have gotten similar responses when they tried to contact support. On February 19, the hashtag #Twitch_arab_streamers started trending on Twitter, with Middle Eastern streamers all sharing one common issue: allegedly not being able to collect payment from the site. Multiple streamers said they had all contacted Twitch about the issue, and each time the site said it was due to \u201ca discrepancy with certain tax information provided during the onboarding process.\u201d Twitch streamers beg site to let them cash out It\u2019s unfair that twitch banned middle East streamers from receiving payment for the subscription and Bits Without any reason and without any excuse This is unfair.. #twitch_arab_streamers pic.twitter.com\/mDA62IcJ6h\u2014 OSAMAH | \u0627\u0633\u0627\u0645\u0647 (@iOSAMAA6) February 19, 2022 Streamer POWR OSAMAH said it was \u201cunfair\u201d Twitch seems to have only singled out Middle Eastern streamers from receiving payment from Bits and subs. \u201cTwitch please, listen, I don\u2019t have a job, Twitch is my job,\u201d OSAMAH said. \u201cIf you take my money, I will be homeless, you know that?\u201d Why exactly all of these streamers may have been cut off remains unknown, but a large amount have been left unable to collect this month. Almost everyone posting under the hashtag claimed to have received basically the same message from Twitch about it being a tax \u201cdiscrepancy\u201d as well. @TwitchSupport @Twitch My Twitch account and many Arab Twitch streamers accounts were blocked from receiving payouts this month. The only explanation provided from Twitch support was “”discrepancy with certain tax information””.#twitch_arab_streamers \u2014 NecTronN |\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0652\u062f\u064e\u0631\u0639\u0645 (@nectron90) February 19, 2022 blocking one or two individuals due to Tax information discrepancy is understandable but blocking a hall community is sus if you ask me since all our Tax information is legit and we have been receiving money since the beginning. Twitch didn\u2019t notify us#Twitch_Arab_Streamers pic.twitter.com\/iezqg7yfOd \u2014 ohmyTalal \u26a0\ufe0f (@ohmyTalal) February 19, 2022 And all of a sudden Twitch decided to block my account from receiving payouts after all the hard work I did. This specific payment is my only hope for getting myself a gaming PC as I am unemployed. #twitch_arab_streamers@Twitch @TwitchSupport pic.twitter.com\/iOvpmTHWLV \u2014 JSoul \u547d (@j_soul13) February 19, 2022 Twitch hasn\u2019t commented on the situation at the time of writing, with no mention of the issue appearing on any of the site\u2019s socials. Dexerto has reached out to Twitch about the issue, and will update this piece if or when we receive a response. One or two streamers being unable to receive payment could be chalked up to a glitch or hiccup, but an entire region being frozen out could indicate a bigger issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch streamers beg for help after platform reportedly blocks payment withdrawals TwitchA number of Twitch streamers from the Middle East have allegedly been unable to cash out from the site and have gotten similar responses when they tried to contact support. On February 19, the hashtag #Twitch_arab_streamers started trending on Twitter, with Middle Eastern streamers […]<\/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-62810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62810","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=62810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}