Twitch uphold hate speech ban against streamer who claims he said \u201cyikers\u201d Instagram: pinkwardlolLeague of Legends streamer who claims to have used the word \u201cyikers\u201d during a broadcast, which was mistaken for a racial slur. Hunter \u2018Pink Ward\u2019 Trahan is a LoL streamer on the platform, but had his Twitch account shut down by the company back in May for \u201chateful conduct.\u201d Pink Ward believes this refers to a moment on his stream in which he says \u201cyikers\u201d in response to behaviour from an opposing player, but could possibly be misheard as a racial slur. Pink Ward is a League of Legends streamer on Twitch. In a clip taken by the streamer from from his broadcast. Pink Ward\u2019s teammate can be heard saying \u201cyikes\u201d when an enemy player refers to the LoL player as a \u201cfat pig.\u201d In the clip, Pink Ward can be heard calling the opposing player salty, before using what sounds like the phrase \u201cfucking yikers,\u201d a claim he vehemently maintains, despite some viewers feeling he may have used the slur. The streamer received a 30 day ban from the site on May 17, and has been trying to get his ban overturned ever since, saying that he understands what people might have heard, but feels that Twitch haven\u2019t taken context or intent into account when handing down the ban. I can understand what people might have heard, but I said Yikers. Stated in their own community guidelines, context will be taken into account. I have no background of being racist, I have never been banned before and, in the same clip I posted, I reassured chat I didn\u2019t say it. pic.twitter.com\/rwjXGuICja \u2014 Pink Ward (@Pinkwardlol) June 7, 2019 Despite his protests, it appears that Pink Ward will have to serve out the entirety of his 30 day ban, revealing on June 10 that he had reopened his ticket in the hopes of receiving a response from Twitch about the ban, but had it closed again. \u201cGuess my ban is just going to get swept under the rug,\u201d wrote Pink Ward on Twitter. \u201cI thought I had a chance at getting unbanned. I guess it\u2019s confirmed that context doesn\u2019t matter. In the end, Twitch will ban who they want to ban.\u201d Bumped my ticket last night in hopes I\u2019d get a response, but it just got closed, no response. Guess my bans gonna get swept under the rug. I\u2019ll have to wait up to 4 months to get partnered with the strike on my acc. Only way to bypass is to get on a team, guess i\u2019m going pro! :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: pic.twitter.com\/S3pSt1bKHp \u2014 Pink Ward (@Pinkwardlol) June 10, 2019 I thought I had a chance at getting unbanned. I guess it\u2019s confirmed that context doesn\u2019t matter. In the end Twitch will ban who they want to ban. Thank those of you who\u2019ve helped me and have been on my side through this. 30 day ban ends next week. Much love, cya then. \u2014 Pink Ward (@Pinkwardlol) June 10, 2019 The streamer says his biggest issue with the ban is the lack of communication he has received from Twitch about it, despite sending multiple emails and tickets about the situation. Pink Ward explained: \u201cMy problem is no communication. My tickets have been changed from open to closed. I\u2019ve only gotten one email about it. At this point, either the system is automatically closing them, or someone\u2019s fucking with me.\u201d My problem is no communication. My tickets have been changed from open, to closed, reopened them, they were changed to resolved, so I reopened again. I\u2019ve only gotten one email about it. At this point either the system is automatically closing them, or someone\u2019s fucking with me. pic.twitter.com\/pVyYChV8Fr \u2014 Pink Ward (@Pinkwardlol) June 9, 2019 The LoL player suggests that he is anxious to return to Twitch, stating that due to the strike on his account, he will not be able to apply for a Twitch partnership for another three months. This isn\u2019t the first time Twitch\u2019s policy on banning channels for using hate speech has come under scrutiny, with a number of World of Warcraft streamers claiming that they had been banned for typing the name of the game\u2019s NPCs in chat. We\u2019ll be sure to update this story as new information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch uphold hate speech ban against streamer who claims he said \u201cyikers\u201d Instagram: pinkwardlolLeague of Legends streamer who claims to have used the word \u201cyikers\u201d during a broadcast, which was mistaken for a racial slur. Hunter \u2018Pink Ward\u2019 Trahan is a LoL streamer on the platform, but had his Twitch account shut down by the […]<\/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-62883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62883","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=62883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}