ExoHydraX accuses Twitch of racism after hot tub stream ban

Olivia Richman • 09/Could/21 • 23:01

Twitch streamer and influencer ExoHydraX has accused Twitch of racism after her receiving a three-day ban from the streaming platform. 

ExoHydraX began her stream like another sizzling tub streamer. She placed on a revealing bathing swimsuit after which plopped into her inflatable “sizzling tub” to hang around along with her followers whereas submerged within the water and enjoying with pool toys. In the course of the stream, ExoHydraX began “twerking for subs.”  

Because of this act, ExoHydraX acquired a three-day ban from Twitch. In line with a screenshot of the message ExoHydraX acquired from the Amazon-owned firm, the ban was for “sexually suggestive content material.” In Twitch’s Phrases of Service, that is outlined as making express gestures in the direction of the breasts or buttocks. 

The vast majority of the streaming group instantly lashed out at Twitch for giving ExoHydraX only a quick three-day suspension. Viewers have been attacking Twitch for the previous few months over the “sizzling tub meta,” which has many standard feminine streamers carrying revealing clothes whereas streaming from an inflatable sizzling tub or pool. 

For a lot of Twitch customers, this suggestive content material should not be allowed on the platform in any respect. Not solely do some folks really feel that the ladies are “making the most of viewers” for subscriptions, some see it as inappropriate content material for a platform centered round gaming. A few of these folks have requested for “sizzling tub streamers” to be faraway from Twitch altogether. However Twitch has barely taken any actions in the direction of these streamers thus far, even telling viewers to easily “not watch” content material that they do not like. 

Whereas lots of people really feel ExoHydraX obtained off simple, she had a really completely different opinion on the scenario. 

Why was ExoHydraX banned from Twitch?

After being banned from Twitch for 3 days, ExoHydraX turned to Twitter to sentence Twitch for his or her actions. 

“Good luck being black and being a streamer on Twitch,” she mentioned. “I do the very same content material that white women do however but I get banned however they do not? Past disappointing. This is not okay.”

ExoHydraX’s racism claims instantly riled up the streaming group. However ExoHydraX did not again down. She even went on to YouTube to debate the difficulty dwell, claiming YouTube solely permits “skinny white bitches” to stream from their sizzling tubs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTS1ozRYkT0

Whereas it is unclear if ExoHydraX’s accusations have any weight to them, many sizzling tub streamers have continued to take a seat in a sizzling tub carrying their bathing swimsuit with none points. Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, largely credited for beginning the “sizzling tub meta,” has by no means been suspended for streaming in a revealing bikini for a lot of hundreds of viewers.

However ExoHydraX isn’t the primary streamer to obtain such a punishment, and former punishments have been delivered to girls of assorted ethnicities. Streamer indiefoxx has been banned from Twitch a number of instances for her sexually suggestive streams. This consists of one for carrying a showering swimsuit that Twitch staff deemed “see-through,” and thus overly sexual. ImJasmine was additionally suspended from Twitch after she had a NSFW bikini prime malfunction whereas getting drunk in her sizzling tub. 

It is unclear what precisely about ExoHydraX’s stream has prompted her to obtain a three-day ban whereas different sizzling tub streams proceed. It is doubtless that the twerking triggered Twitch’s “express gestures in the direction of the buttocks” line within the Phrases of Service. Different sizzling tub streamers merely lounge of their sizzling tubs with out taking any actions that might be outlined as explicitly sexual, which can be why they aren’t suspended. And even when there may be any component of fact to ExoHydraX’s claims, Twitch’s unwillingless to talk publicly about its bans and suspensions implies that the dialog is unlikely to maneuver any additional ahead.

Twitch has but to reply publicly to the accusations.