xQc, Streamer On Twitch, Received 72-Hour Ban After Watching Porn

In recent time, Twitch has become the topic of many discussions as this streaming platform was accused of showing bias for some users. xQc, a professional player of Overwatch, is the streamer on Twitch who came under fire recently. After showing a video with pornographic content during a live stream, xQc was banned from the platform for 72 hours.

On July 31^st, when he was streaming, xQc notified this news to his fans by making an announcement about Twitch’s decision to ban him from doing live streams on the platform in three days. According to him, this punishment is going to start on August 1^st. In his live stream xQc has shown “Safe For Work Porn,” a video on YouTube which includes various pornographic clips that were drawn over with multiple colors to create jokes, leading to his being banned from the site.

Although the creator of this video has covered all images related to pornography, viewers can still see a few truly NSFW material in some scenes, as the first appearance of this video on YouTube was back to ten years ago. In these cases, Twitch would regularly ban the streamers immediately. However, because the platform has already given this popular streamer enough warning, many people believed that popular streamers are likely to receive special treatment.

xQc, in his streaming, told his fans about the situation in details. At first, although in chat an employee of Twitch considered the video “Safe at work” sexually suggestive, Twitch still told him that there was technically nothing wrong with it. However, after reviewing the video carefully, “in the video, there is a frame that isn’t fully covered,” according to Twitch staff. In addition, there is also “a piece of dick” showing up at times. As a result, he is being prevented from doing live streams in three days. In the end, he did mention the date when his punishment will start.

Twitch’s punishment for xQc has become a significantly controversial topic for many people, after the similar case in January of a Twitch streamer, Alinity, who inadvertently showing his viewers an uncensored image of male genitalia in his live stream and was not warned or banned by the site.

The case of Alinity was, of course, an unfortunate incident and after that, the streamer had quickly shut down the image so that viewers could no longer see it. Meanwhile, in xQc’s case, despite the fact that he may not know about the inside image, his purpose of showing the video while streaming was intentional. In recent time, Alinity has been under fire one more time after she threw her cat when she was streaming.