Despite having gotten more competitors in the past few years, Twitch continues to be one of the most popular streaming platforms with some of the biggest streaming stars on there. However, they also have a long list of banned streamers.
Fortunately for creators, most bans onTwitch, typically given for community guidelines violations, range from 24 hours, a few days, a week, or, in the most serious cases, 30 days. However, there is one type of ban that any streamer dreads: an indefinite suspension.
As the name implies, there is no set end date on these bans, and although Twitch can lift it at any time, it is often always considered permanent, except in a few rare cases when these streamers areallowed to return.
Top 5 most famous Twitch bans
At the time of his permanent ban, Adin Ross was more popular than any other streamer on this list at their time of theirs. He was averaging over 60,000 viewers, and was a constant hot topic in the Twitch community.
Adin moved to rival platformKickfollowing his ban, where he is currently the most-watched streamer. However, he recently went on stream tobeg Twitch to unban him.
No surprise here, the most infamous Twitch ban is that of Dr Disrespect. Before his ban, the self-proclaimed ‘face of Twitch’ was a bonafide streaming superstar, and had just signed a new bumper contract with Twitch a few months earlier.
Now, Dr Disrespect streams on YouTube, and is still as popular as ever, but his massive Twitch community was shut off forever in the blink of an eye, and remains the most high-profile and controversial permanent ban to this day.
There are many other famous permanent Twitch bans, some of which were in fact lifted after a number of years. But all five of these streamers are still not permitted to broadcast on the Amazon-owned platform, and likely never will be.
Not only that, but the platform’s executive has also recentlyvowed to improve its ban system and provide more transparencyto the streaming community.
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