For several years now, there has been talk among Twitch users that some popular streamers have a special status on the platform. Those who bring in a lot of money work according to completely different rules and even moderators cannot ban them, despite obvious violations of the rules of the service. Rumors like this were actually confirmed even when streamer Alinity was not banned for being rude to her cat, which at one time caused a lot of discontent from viewers.
The same can be said for the popular streamer Amouranth, who licked the microphone while pointing her butt at the camera – then she was only temporarily suspended from Twitch, for just three days. And this is after she was repeatedly sent to suspension for sexual content. Yesterday Amouranth got her fifth ban on the platform again.
As a result of a recent hack by Twitch, 125 GB of data from the platform was leaked to the network. Among them are the source code of the site, multi-million dollar earnings of streamers, encrypted passwords and a lot of other information. Most of it has already been sorted out, but something interesting still remains. For example, a file was found stating that some streamers cannot be sent to suspend.
In addition to the names and instructions not to ban, there is also a reason why it should not be banned. For example, streamers ricegum and loltyler1 state: “Do not ban, direct violations to [почтовый адрес]In other words, even if these streamers break something, the moderator should not take action, but instead send it to one of the staff.
In addition to this, there are other names on the list, but the reason for its existence is not completely clear. There are suggestions that these may be those streamers that have already been tested for potential violations. An example is djWHEAT, who is streaming games with his son. Employees have already checked his streams and although his son is under 18, he was given the go-ahead to be in the frame.
Reddit users believe that this is not exactly a whitelist, but just a list of all the measures taken, and in the case of some streamers, they have already received the green light, despite some potential reasons for blocking.
As you parse files from twitch, the situation will become clearer. Although there is little doubt that popular streamers receive special treatment and are not always subject to general “laws”.
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