Korean Models Banned From Twitch Within Hours Of Their First Stream

Four Korean models have been banned from Twitch within hours of their first stream.

The models started streaming on the Just Chatting category on Sunday, and their content consisted on them eating snacks, dancing, playing games, and swimming in a pool with a see-through wall – all while wearing swimsuits and negligee, reports GameRant.

At its peak, the models had over 20,000 viewers, however after five hours of streaming, Twitch closed down their streams (across four different channels) and banned each of their accounts (sooflower, edoongs2, chobiman0125, and damicoss).

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The four accounts were each banned at a similar time, and Twitch hasn’t commented on the reason behind their drastic action. However, as GameRant points out, it’s most likely something to do with their Community Guidelines, especially the part regarding ‘sexually suggestive content’ being prohibited. That also includes clothing that is deemed to be sexually suggestive.

Tyler ‘Trainwreckstv’ Niknam, a popular Twitch user, said that the model’s stream was ‘shameless’ during his own stream later that day. He said: “It’s absolutely shameless. It’s like the mannerisms, the behaviour. All of it shameless.”

This comes after Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins blasted the platform for promoting ‘porn’ on his old channel.

Ninja, who recently announced his move from Twitch to Microsoft’s Mixer, took to Twitter with a short video telling his fans he’s “disgusted and so sorry” about the inappropriate materials.

“This is the line,” he says. “I’m trying to get the whole channel taken down to begin with, or at least not promote other streamers on my brand, on my frigging profile. So for anyone who saw that…I apologize, and I’m sorry.”

Ninja also claims that his old Twitch channel is the only offline page that Twitch has been using to promote other channels, something which Twitch’s CEO Emmett Shear has denied.

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Shear took to Twitter to say that the company has “been experimenting with showing recommended content across Twitch, including on streamer’s pages that are offline.”

Shear tweeted out an apology to Ninja over the porn shown on his channel, writing: “We have also suspended these recommendations while we investigate how this content came to be promoted,

“4/ On a more personal note, I apologize want to apologize directly to @ninja that this happened. It wasn’t our intent, but it should not have happened. No excuses.”

The Verge reached out to Twitch for a statement following his departure to Mixer, and although it seems like the the move was totally amicable, I’m thinking it’s probably not the case now…

Credit: Instagram/ninja

“We’ve loved watching Ninja on Twitch over the years and are proud of all that he’s accomplished for himself and his family, and the gaming community,” Twitch said in a statement at the time. “We wish him the best of luck in his future endeavours.”

H/T: GameRant

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