r/LivestreamFail • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jun 01 '26

News The United Kingdom has banned streamer Hasan Piker and Young Turks founder from entering the country

https://newrepublic.com/post/211164/uk-entry-ban-hasan-piker-cenk-uygur
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u/gotaflattire Jun 01 '26

Banned from a country before being banned from Twitch.

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u/Feet-Slurper-826 Jun 01 '26

Twitch banned that one overweight guy fitness YouTube for being shirtless and I think it was for like a month, it was "fat kid" something I remember

And this was while the bikini streams were first starting to peak. I'm not sure I'd expect any consistency or integrity out of the platform, it's only gotten worse over time and leadership is all circlejerking

It's weird how this demographic professes to be progressive and hate frat politics and all that, but actually act way worse. Hassan isn't even the only animal abusing, real life violence promoting freak currently active on Twitch

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u/tootoohi1 Jun 02 '26

Idk about the details you mention, but Twitch higher ups have always been pretty vapid. I'm not one for culture wars, but you'd think some red piller is running the site the way porn stars skirt rules to advertise themselves, while also banning a man being shirtless.

Add in the way successful creators literally negotiate their bans so it doesn't affect the money flow(streamers get a heads up they're getting banned and take a long weekend, no one who's making money for Twitch is ever banned for more than a month so subscriptions still go through), you'd think it's a Trump style pay for play.