Streamer Gets Banned for Costume – Wearing a bikini shows how silly the rules of Twitch are

The streaming platform Twitch has banned streamer STPeach for 24 hours for an allegedly too daring cosplay of the character “Raven” from TeenTitans. The streamer found the ban so silly that she posed in a skimpy bikini afterwards in a stream. But that was allowed, because she was sitting in a paddling pool.

What was the streamer banned for?

• STPeach received a 24-hour ban from Twitch on April 11th.
• As she says herself, she was banned for performing a cosplay of “Raven” from the series TeenTitan: The character Raven wears a cape but is only scantily clad underneath.
• StPeach said she’s worn the costume on stream before with no problems. On this stream she wore it again, played Elden Ring the whole time and nothing special happened (so no box was moved or anything). Nevertheless, she will now be banned. She wanted to protest against this (via twitter).

In protest: the streamer places the paddling pool in the living room

This is how she protested against the ban: The streamer took Twitch’s rules ad absurdum because of nudity. She was banned for violating these rules. But on April 13, she streamed in a bikini, so with significantly less clothing than in the Raven cosplay.

But on this stream she was in a tub, so that outfit was now “legal” and Twitch had to leave the clip online as it was.

StPeach in a bikini – that’s allowed according to the Twitch Rules because she’s sitting in a paddling pool:

This is behind it: The streamer points out the absurdity of Twitch’s rules here:

• If you show games on Twitch and even a little something from the “forbidden region” can be seen, the ban hammer can overtake you. Because in Twitch’s April 2020 nudity rules, practically everything is forbidden
• But if you sit in a tub and wear “appropriate clothing”, i.e. a bikini, you are in the safe area – because there is a large section of “exceptions” that suspend Twitch’s clothing rules. Among other things, there is an exception that counts for swimming and beach stays

• Twitch’s weird, easily circumvented rule has led to a “hot tub” meta, as streamers deliberately circumvented the “nudity” rules to show as much skin as possible. Because it is enough to put a paddling pool in the living room so that the stream runs under “Swimming and visiting the beach”.

STPeach’s action demonstrates the absurdity of these rules. How strange these rules sometimes seem can be seen again and again in examples:

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