Twitch under fire for banning Loserfruit emote for \u201cbullying\u201d Instagram\/LoserfruitTwitch streamer Loserfruit is the latest to have one of her emotes banned as the Amazon-owned platform continues to crack down on potential emote abuse. Numerous Twitch streamers have had their own specialized emotes banned by the site in recent months with a common trend beginning to emerge. In March, \u2018Chica\u2019 had her seemingly innocent chicken emote removed from the site, because it featured the cartoon critter making an \u201cL\u201d sign above its head. Now, a similar fate has befallen Loserfruit, who had an emote of a cartoon version of herself holding up the same \u201cL\u201d \u2013 and the streamer seems worried that her username could be on the chopping block next. Loserfruit emote banned on Twitch for \u201cinciting abuse\u201d In a post on Twitter, Loserfruit revealed that her emote had been removed and included a screenshot from Twitch explaining their reasoning. According to Twitch, the \u201cfruitLoser\u201d emote was disallowed because it could result in \u201ctargeted insults, bullying and threatening or inciting abuse.\u201d \u201cWonder when they gonna come for my username,\u201d the Australian Twitch star pondered. In the comments, many defended the emote and noted that anyone can just go into someone else\u2019s chat and spam \u201cL.\u201d Twitch is really going all out collecting L\u2019s lately. \u2014 Paul Smith (@ebroglio8) April 14, 2023 Unless they also plan on banning the letter L I don\u2019t see what this achieves. Anyone who wanted to \u201cbully\u201d can just put an L in chat instead of the emote and achieve the same thing. \u201cBruh that\u2019s literally just an emote of you,\u201d someone else commented. \u201cIt\u2019s the woke world everyone asked for, isn\u2019t it? If a single person doesn\u2019t like something, it instantly gets banned,\u201d said another. Bruh that\u2019s literally just an emote of you \u2014 NinjaBoiii (@NinjaBoiii39) April 14, 2023 Even more it\u2019s deadass just your name backwards \ud83d\udc80 Late last month, a former Twitch employee explained the reasoning behind emote removals, stating that the platform will judge emotes based on how viewers could potentially misuse them. Regardless, users have raised interesting points about the letter L, in general, having the same effect as an emote if misused, but Twitch hasn\u2019t banned the letter from chats. In the meantime, users not happy with Twitch\u2019s strict moderation have plenty of other options to choose from with sites like Kick offering streamers more freedom to post what they want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch under fire for banning Loserfruit emote for \u201cbullying\u201d Instagram\/LoserfruitTwitch streamer Loserfruit is the latest to have one of her emotes banned as the Amazon-owned platform continues to crack down on potential emote abuse. Numerous Twitch streamers have had their own specialized emotes banned by the site in recent months with a common trend beginning […]<\/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-62870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62870","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=62870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}