xQc challenges Twitch as WoW streamer C9 Ziqo gets banned for \u201cno reason\u201d xQc \/ C9 ZiqoUpdate (Monday, January 26 \u2013 7 PM PT): After a week of confusion, Twitch has reversed its decision to ban Ziqo\u2019s account on the platform, restoring his access on January 26. After a confusing week for the popular WoW streamer, Ziqo now has access to his Twitch account once again. The initial ban came through without a proper explanation and the situation has now been resolved without a proper explanation as well. Thanks to support from the community, including the likes of xQc, Ziqo is now back on Twitch. The original story continues below. F\u00e9lix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel has challenged Twitch over a potential inconsistency in their banning protocol, angered by the news that fellow streamer C9 Ziqo was suspended without explanation and couldn\u2019t stream for a few days as a result. Ziqo\u2019s ban was announced on January 19, but after almost a week passed by without any confirmation about the time he could return to playing for his audience, xQc has decided back him publicly with a message to decision makers. Of course, the former Overwatch pro has been in this difficult situation a number of times, having been banned more than once on Twitch. Most recently, he was banned in November 2020 for cheating at a Twitch Rivals event. Twitch urged to take action over WoW streamer ban After seeing World of Warcraft fans were still waiting to hear more from C9 Ziqo, on January 25 he urged Twitch to make a move and \u201cstop stalling\u201d on his case. In a tweet, the Canadian posted: \u201cIF I GET A VOD TIMESTAMP WHEN I GET SUSPENDED, HE SHOULD TOO,\u201d tagging Twitch Support in his message. \u201cPLEASE GIVE THIS MAN A TIMESTAMP OR FIX. STREAMERS LOSE TRACTION OVERNIGHT, STOP STALLING.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/xQc\/status\/1353680336518049792 The argument he\u2019s making, that streamers can lose traction overnight, is certainly a valid one. With a player unable to stream, viewers \u2013 in turn \u2013 also are unable to watch, living off snippets of information posted to Twitter during the ban. There is no guarantee that the viewership will be of the same size following the ban, xQc argues. C9 Ziqo opens up on his Twitch suspension C9 Ziqo confirmed he would be making a YouTube video explaining everything, and that\u2019s since been released. It\u2019s included in the tweet xQc responded to, and shows the streamer revealing everything we knows so far about his suspension. During the video, he says it was a violation of Twitch TOS, but the specific issue wasn\u2019t confirmed. In a tweet, he revealed his own suspicion that something has been misheard during a stream. He has since launched an appeal. Right now I believe I got suspended because @TwitchSupport misheard my f*ck it (in clip below) for a homophobic slur. Similar to Forsen. So I made another appeal, again this is only speculation since Twitch never showed me the flagged content. https:\/\/t.co\/dCPugcarMW \u2014 Ziqo (@Ziqoftw) January 25, 2021 \u201cIt could be anything honestly in that policy,\u201d he said in his YouTube video. Clarity is something Ziqo will want himself, but more broadly speaking fellow streamers and his fans would prefer to know why this has happened in the first place. https:\/\/youtu.be\/AOGH1Yu0EJw Whether or not the process of lifting the suspension will be accelerated following the message from his fellow streamer remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
xQc challenges Twitch as WoW streamer C9 Ziqo gets banned for \u201cno reason\u201d xQc \/ C9 ZiqoUpdate (Monday, January 26 \u2013 7 PM PT): After a week of confusion, Twitch has reversed its decision to ban Ziqo\u2019s account on the platform, restoring his access on January 26. After a confusing week for the popular WoW […]<\/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-65131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65131","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=65131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}