Twitter suspends man after sharing Pokemon Game Boy collection Twitter\/Twitter: Cantdie_A man on Twitter says that the platform suspended him for 12 hours after sharing a picture of his Pokemon collection, stating that he was \u201cpromoting or encouraging self-harm.\u201d Since Pokemon launched its video game series in 1996, millions of fans have taken to collecting the popular games and other Pokemon-related items \u2014 often finding happiness in what they\u2019ve acquired. It\u2019s so popular in fact, that people from around the world use social media platforms to share pictures of what they\u2019ve acquired throughout the years. Twitter user Cantdie, however, says sharing a picture of his Pokemon Game Boy collection led to him getting suspended for 12 hours with the app claiming he \u201cpromoted self-harm.\u201d Man claims Twitter suspended him after sharing Pokemon picture In a post on May 16, Cantdie \u2014 whose first name is Joel \u2014 returned from his Twitter suspension to reveal what actually happened to his account. The user showed a screenshot of Twitter saying he violated rules against \u201cpromoting or encouraging suicide or self-harm.\u201d According to Joel, however, he was simply sharing a photo of his Pokemon collection when he was banned. Speaking with Dexerto, Joel revealed that he was posting about his new Nintendo 3DS when one of his followers mentioned how much her son would enjoy the content. \u201cI [replied] with a pic of my Pokemon [and] handheld collection and got banned,\u201d he explained. \u201cMy main concern is that the automation service is obviously very broken. The fact that I got flagged for promoting self-harm\/suicide when I posted a picture of a children\u2019s game is eye-opening.\u201d Luckily for Joel, his account has been reinstated, but it\u2019s clear that he\u2019s not exactly happy with the platform\u2019s moderation. For more entertainment news and other viral stories, head over to check out our coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitter suspends man after sharing Pokemon Game Boy collection Twitter\/Twitter: Cantdie_A man on Twitter says that the platform suspended him for 12 hours after sharing a picture of his Pokemon collection, stating that he was \u201cpromoting or encouraging self-harm.\u201d Since Pokemon launched its video game series in 1996, millions of fans have taken to collecting […]<\/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-62953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62953","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=62953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}