Twitch has banned the streamer Quin69 for the 4th time in 2022. The expert on Diablo and Path of Exile apparently managed to talk himself into the ban while discussing how he dries his wet hair. Somehow, he ended up mentioning Osama bin Laden and his turban.
Who is Quin69?
- Quin69 is a New Zealand Twitch streamer who specializes in hack and slash games like Path of Exile or Diablo. He is really good at these games.
- The 32-year-old was very active with Diablo Immortal, where he demonstrated in an insane and expensive self-experiment how costly it is to really want to reach the maximum in Blizzard’s mobile game.
- The streamer has trouble expressing himself politically correctly. He apparently lacks a filter that keeps him out of trouble in some situations. At 1 AM German time on October 25, he was banned again, marking his 4th ban this year. In April of this year, he was last banned.
Quin69 says he ties his hair up like a turban – like a terrorist
What was he banned for this time? Quin69 hasn’t revealed that himself – Twitch never shares that information anyway. However, it is suspected on reddit that he may have been banned for a segment in which he describes how he dries his now long hair.
A reddit user shares the corresponding excerpt from a copy of the Twitch stream on YouTube. His Twitch channel is unreachable during a ban.
Quin69 describes: It is totally annoying to shower and then go to bed with wet hair when you have long hair.
Now with this shit, I have to tie my hair together like… hm, how do I say this best in 2022? Like a terrorist! When you think of Osama bin Laden, that iconic picture of him – like that, with a towel.
Quin69 then googles Osama, looks at a photo of bin Laden wearing a turban, and says: ‘That’s exactly the photo I was thinking of.’ That’s how he ties the towel too.
What’s wrong with that? Apparently, Twitch finds it racist to directly associate a turban with “terrorism,” as one could conclude that anyone wearing a turban is automatically a terrorist.
That’s apparently a perspective that Twitch sanctions.
How is it being discussed on reddit? With Quin69, one has almost come to expect such an action. The first reaction after the ban was the question of whether Twitch had ever banned him for racism or sexism.
People particularly find it amusing that Quin69 himself realizes how sensitive the topic is and even wonders how he can correctly phrase his thought process in 2022, only to stumble directly into doom:
- ‘He actually took time to think about how to express it and then came up with the wildest thing possible.’
- ‘Sounds like something Quin would say and definitely deserves a ban.’
Probably, the ban will only last a few days – especially in cases of racism, homophobia, transphobia, and sexism, Twitch allows little margin of error. MontanaBlack had to learn this too:
The reason for the ban was apparently even worse than thought
Update October 26, 9:15 AM: Quin69 has spoken out on Twitter and revealed the reason for his ban.
In a video with a strange “Sad Clown” filter, the New Zealander explains that the ban was due to him showing a very unpleasant video at the beginning of a stream a few days ago, which Twitch apparently sanctioned and in which a person consumed bodily fluids.
Quin69 urged his fans to be better than him and not to repeat his mistakes. The video was apparently meant to be ironic.
