"That's the crazy one to me": Asmongold questions Twitch about banning political streamer Destiny

A clip of popular streamer Zack "Asmongold" questioning Twitch for keeping Steven "Destiny" banned is garnering a lot of attention on social media. Zack, who primarily uses his alternate account 'zackrawrr' on Twitch to go live, discussed the Amazon-owned platform's policy about suspending people like Adin Ross when Steven's ban came up.

Destiny has been banned from the platform since March 2022, with his channel, which had over 700K followers, still not available to access for over two years. Asmongold noted that he did not understand why the political content creator was still not allowed on the website, stating:

The topic of suspended individuals coming back to Twitch was kicked off earlier this month when Kick streamer Adin Ross publicly apologized on his livestream, almost urging the Amazon-owned company to lift his ban. He even explained why, claiming he wanted to be able to collaborate with people on the platform such as Kai Cenat.

Currently, creators who are banned cannot meaningfully appear on other people's Twitch streams as it violates their suspension evasion policies. While discussing Adin, Asmongold started talking about other streamers who have served indefinite bans on the platform, giving the example of Darren "IShowSpeed" who had his channel restored after two years.

The website is known for not publicly divulging the exact reason for handing out suspensions, instead emailing the creator about which policy they broke to incur the penalty. Asmongold took this further, wondering if something is going on "behind the scenes" for Destiny to remain banned for this long:

He also talked about another creator, Jidon "JiDion" who has seen several of his appeals rejected after getting banned for harassing Imane