The Overwatch streamer Daniela “Deku” was not pleased at all, because when she wanted to provide her viewers with a new emote, Twitch decided against it and prohibited the use of the emote.
This is the situation:
- The streamer Deku primarily plays Overwatch and has an average of 141 viewers. She also has about 760 subscribers, and it was for them that she wanted to upload a new animated emote: a dancing white dog.
- The dog presents its rear and tail to the camera, bouncing up and down.
- Impossible, thinks Twitch, and does not allow the streamer to use this emote. They wrote to her that the dog emote violates the platform’s guidelines. It shows sexual content or nudity.
- Furthermore, it is prohibited to upload sexualized bodies, bodily fluids, and animated images of rear ends. Deku couldn’t let this slide and took appropriate action (via Twitter).
Not only emotes can be banned, but also streamers:
Twitch streamer Deku fights back against the measure
What did the streamer do? Deku tried to upload the emote a second time, just mirrored (via Twitter). To her disappointment, Twitch recognized the clever attempt and blocked the little dog again.
Here you can see the dog emote in action:
“Twitch really said: ‘Yes, we allow a half-naked woman on Twitch while she licks ear microphones, but a dancing dog wagging its tail is going too far.'”, tweeted Deku.
With this, she referred to the well-known Twitch streamer Amouranth, who often presents herself quite revealing in her live streams and licks a microphone to convey a pleasant feeling to the viewers.
Deku ultimately published her dancing dog after all (via Twitter): On BetterTTV, a site that allows streamers to connect their Twitch account with it and upload additional free emotes. Through the site, all viewers who have the BetterTTV browser extension can use the respective emotes without having to pay for them.
Other streamers have already cited Amouranth as a negative example: Streamer complains about the extreme double standards of Twitch after ban.
