Streaming star Felix ‘xQc’ Lengyel has hit out at Twitch for being a bit more lax on enforcing rules, as streamers are seemingly not being banned like he was for similar rule breaks.
Twitch’s moderation has come under the microscope in recent years, on a whole number of fronts. When streamers urged them to clamp down on gambling streams, the Amazon-owned platform followed through. However, there has been a call for an overall tightening of rules.
Some streamers believe that bans are, at times, a little lax. The likes of xQc have hit out at Twitch for seemingly letting some creators escape a ban for breaking the rules as he did in the past.
“Back in the day, I got banned for a rap music video showing booty like everybody else, alright? Banned. Done. Even though the TOS on nudity, at the time, hadn’t changed, with the emergence of a lot of new streamers and more viewers, Twitch said ‘f*ck this’. They did not change the TOS, but people stopped getting banned for that,” he said in his July 7 stream.
xQc questions Twitch not enforcing like they used to
The Canadian also pointed to rules around sexual content, as well as blood and gore apparently not being updated, with bans no longer being handed out for things he was previously banned for.
“TOS, they kind of ghost changed. It’s just odd, it’s odd, whatever. I’m not going to cry about it, but I’m just saying,” he continued.
“I think its fine for me to say I don’t really give a shit about TOS and being on eggshells. I don’t give a fu*k. There’s no point doing that anymore because that would be me trying to be nice to Twitc,h but nobody plays the game like how I play it because they don’t have to. So, there’s no point. It’s just lame.”
He also urged Twitch to update rules around endangering others, pushing the platform to make clear that “controlled” content is fine
“Why is it so hard to update the TOS to say ‘guys, listen, this is what we used to do. This is what we do now.’ It is not that f**king hard,” he added. “Twitch loves this grey area, right?
Speaking to The Game Business Live back in June, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy stated that Twitch hasn’t “really changed much at all,” with their rules. Though, noted there is a bigger focus on how things are done or how words are said.
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