Simply over a month after making a shock semi-return to Twitch, Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg has been banned from the platform. A purpose for the suspension hasn’t been introduced, however some followers are speculating that it may very well be as a consequence of one among his previous VODs.
Pewdiepie is legendary as probably the most dominant figures on YouTube (opens in new tab)—actually, regardless of ‘retiring’ from YouTube in 2020 (which in actuality was simply extra of a slowdown), he wasn’t surpassed because the platform’s high canine till MrBeast claimed the crown (opens in new tab) in late 2022. He does have a Twitch channel too, however hadn’t touched it for years—till March, when it out of the blue popped again to life, inexplicably airing episodes of Canadian sitcom Trailer Park Boys.
Pewdiepie went stay after years of not streaming on twitch and is streaming episodes of trailer park boys pic.twitter.com/u9NEylEgDZMarch 22, 2023
This was all fairly complicated, and as Dexerto (opens in new tab) identified on the time, some followers frightened that Pewdiepie’s channel had been hacked. However it was really the work of CoPilot Media (opens in new tab), a distribution and monetization service, which was utilizing the footage to check a deliberate rollout of Pewdiepie Infinity, primarily an infinite loop of Pewdiepie’s movies, operating continuous. (Trailer Park Boys was used for the take a look at as a result of CoPilot has the rights to that content material, too.)
So, thriller solved—however now there is a new thriller afoot. After just a little over a month of operating fixed VODs, and with nary a single stay look from the person himself, Pewdiepie’s channel was banned. As traditional, Twitch didn’t publicly touch upon the rationale for the ban, or how lengthy it’s going to final.
Fairly a number of Pewdiepie followers have speculated that YouTube’s comparatively lax content material tips might have been the trigger—merely put, what passes muster on the ‘Tube will not be essentially acceptable on Twitch. Some consider the ban was particularly triggered by an inadvertent replay of the notorious “Bridge Incident,” by which Pewdie dropped the n-word throughout a 2017 PUBG session.
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I can not at the moment verify if the above VOD really aired on Pewdiepie’s Twitch channel, however that is the place issues stand proper now: By some means, Pewdiepie managed to get banned from Twitch lower than two months after returning to Twitch, throughout which he was by no means really on Twitch in any respect. It is virtually spectacular.
There’s at the moment no indication as to when Pewdiepie’s Twitch channel will return to motion. Penalties for content material guideline violations are normally pretty quick, nevertheless it’s additionally attainable that CoPilot is now selecting via Pewdiepie’s extant YouTube content material with a really fantastic comb, and with roughly 4,700 movies at the moment posted to his YouTube channel, that would take some time. I’ve reached out to Pewdie and CoPilot Media for extra info, and can replace if I obtain a reply.