xQc unbanned after a few hours of being suspended from Twitch – GENERAL News

Olivia Richman • 15/Aug/21 • 15:40

Felix “xQc” Lengyel is again on Twitch after being suspended for just a few hours. 

Yesterday, xQc was all of a sudden banned for the fifth time and followers had been not sure of the rationale. With none phrase from xQc, followers had been left questioning what triggered xQc to get suspended and the way lengthy it could be. Some even thought it could be everlasting because of xQc’s intensive run-ins with Twitch’s Phrases of Service. However xQc is again, only a few hours later, with the ban in the end lasting simply 4 hours. 

Regardless that xQc is again, his followers are nonetheless confused why this occurred. One idea is that it needed to do with xQc’s ongoing drama with a DMCA strike when xQc confirmed clips of the Olympic Video games on stream. xQc obtained a suspension that was additionally very brief on the time, adopted by xQc threatening to struggle the strike with a lawyer. 

However xQc by no means talked about this as the rationale. In actual fact, xQc hasn’t tweeted for 2 days. His final tweet was a brief video of him consuming a popsicle within the bathe. 

xQc is thought for his controversial takes and loud opinion, however he usually errs on the aspect of warning in the case of Twitch’s Phrases of Service. Up to now, xQc has referred to as out artists who argued that they had been unfairly banned whereas drawing NSFW content material on-stream.  

What had been the explanations behind all of xQc’s Twitch bans?

xQc has been banned by Twitch 5 instances up to now, for causes together with a DMCA declare and exhibiting inappropriate photos dwell on stream. xQc’s most up-to-date ban was for unknown causes, however his first three bans had been for exhibiting NSFW photos on-air together with nude online game characters and animals having intercourse. His fourth ban from Twitch was for streaming footage of the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Video games. It’s unknown what the reason for the fifth ban was, but it surely was doubtless associated to the earlier difficulty with the Olympics.

That mentioned, xQc was a controversial determine even earlier than he began getting repeatedly banned. He shortly rose to prominence for being a participant within the Overwatch League, however was pressured out of the league pretty shortly because of repeated controversial feedback and actions.

Whereas contracted to the Dallas Gasoline in early 2018, xQc was suspended and fined for mocking an overtly homosexual opponent’s sexuality. Two months later, this occurred once more when he used “racially disparaging emotes” towards Overwatch League persona Malik Forte. This was adopted by his launch from the Gasoline. He has returned to play aggressive Overwatch just a few instances since then, however hasn’t been participating with the sport over current months.