Twitch sued for $25m over \u201csuggestive\u201d streamers Alinity, Pokimane, more Pokimane\/Alinity\/Twitch[jwplayer 3rV0GuQ7]A Twitch viewer from California has submitted a civil complaint seeking $25 million in damages from Twitch for exposing them to \u201coverly suggestive and sexual content from various female streamers\u201d while using the site. Based on court documents obtained by Dexerto, the plaintiff Erik Estavillo, who has previously sued Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and Blizzard, submitted the formal complaint to court on June 15 seeking a lawsuit, and Twitch itself was served with an official summons on June 19. According to the complaint, filed in the Santa Clara Superior Court of California, Estavillo suffers from several medical issues that require him to rely entirely on the internet for all of his entertainment, as well as OCD and sex addiction, which the complaint claims Twitch only makes worse. \u201cTwitch has extremely exacerbated his condition by displaying many sexually suggestive women streamers through Twitch\u2019s twisted programming net code,\u201d the complaint states, \u201cmaking it nearly impossible for the plaintiff to use Twitch without being exposed to such sexual content.\u201d Estavillo, who is following 786 female streamers and 0 male streamers according to the complaint, argues that the site doesn\u2019t offer a way to filter streamers by gender; therefore, he\u2019s forced to choose a \u201cgame and\/or category to watch, with thumbnails showing these scantily clad women, alongside men, of being the only streaming channels available to him.\u201d \u201cIn addition, Twitch also takes advantage of the plaintiff and many other sexually addicted viewers by allowing them to \u2018Subscribe, Donate, or Pay Bits\u2019 to these women streamers,\u201d it continues. \u201cTwitch uses this immediate gratification reward system against their sexually addicted viewers no different than how a Casino would.\u201d The complaint goes on to list several female streamers it claims \u201ccontinues to expose viewers who just want to see people playing video games on Twitch, but instead get exposed to sexually addictive material and content on a consistent and regular basis daily.\u201d These include: Amouranth – Quqco – ST Peach – JadeTheJaguar – Pink_Sparkles – Valeria7K – DanielaAzuage_ – lilchipmunk – iaaras2 – theRaychul – KrystiPryde – SonjaShio – Gavrilka – MizzyRose – KayPikeFashion – Alinity – QTCinderella – Pokimane – Velvet_7 – Loserfruit – In requesting relief, the complaint wants all the streamers listed above permanently banned for violating Twitch\u2019s TOS, along with $25 million dollars \u201cto be split between the plaintiff and other Twitch Prime Turbo Subscribers,\u201d with any leftover going to various charities. Whether or not the lawsuit will go anywhere in court remains to be seen, but according to court documents, Twitch was officially served with a summons by the court on June 19 \u2013 so they will have to respond in some way or the other. As we mentioned earlier, Estavillo has filed numerous lawsuits against other companies before, but it will be interesting to see how Twitch responds and how the scenario plays out. You can read the full complaint against Twitch from Estavillo here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch sued for $25m over \u201csuggestive\u201d streamers Alinity, Pokimane, more Pokimane\/Alinity\/Twitch[jwplayer 3rV0GuQ7]A Twitch viewer from California has submitted a civil complaint seeking $25 million in damages from Twitch for exposing them to \u201coverly suggestive and sexual content from various female streamers\u201d while using the site. Based on court documents obtained by Dexerto, the plaintiff Erik […]<\/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-86990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86990","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=86990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}