Twitch has banned player Advyth: He dreamed of a career as a Fortnite pro and streamer. He can cross that off his list. Especially brutal for the young man: He did so much for his dream of becoming a Fortnite pro. But that’s all over now.
Who is he? Advyth is a relatively small Fortnite streamer, but an excellent player. He has been streaming on Twitch for 4 years and currently has 40,500 followers. When he plays, an average of 350 people watch him.
But Advyth is a strong player in Fortnite, fully dedicated to the arena, collecting points endlessly. For a while, he was ranked number 1 worldwide in arena points.
Currently, he still has the second most arena points in the world, with 283,083. Advyth is therefore an extremely persistent and successful player.
He also put in a lot of time on Twitch in January, having multiple streams over 18 or 19 hours. And it slowly started to pay off.
Twitch streamer on the verge of breakthrough – Then came the ban
That was his dream: Advyth dreamed of a career as an e-sports pro. He wanted to make a name for himself in the Fortnite scene, now that he is so good. And Advyth was on the right path. In recent months, he was able to double the follower count of his Twitch channel and triple his viewer count.
Advyth’s plan was probably to become famous by being number 1 in arena points in Fortnite. There he was in a lonely fight for first place with Marrz_Ow. They were grinding those arena points extremely hard.
The hope for Advyth was: If he was at number 1 in arena points, a Fortnite team would surely find and sign him.
Even if the channel was still small, he at least had significant growth. Just in February, there was a YouTube video about Advyth. He was described as “the new best arena player” in the world. At that time, Advyth was indeed ranked number 1.
The video reached 753,000 views and was a milestone for the young Advyth.
This is his problem: Advyth’s Twitch channel was permanently banned in January 2021. It was said that the streamer had shown “hateful insults or symbols”.
After the Twitch ban, Advyth’s world collapsed. Because he realized: With a Twitch ban, no pro clan would sign him anymore either. Furthermore, 4 years on Twitch were now, in his view, wasted.
The young man saw every meaning in his life disappear.
Hashtag campaign on Twitter aimed to free Fortnite players
That was the hope: One can only escape a permanent ban on Twitch by filing a successful “complaint.” So Advyth wrote to Twitch several times, asking them to unban him, but received no response.
Now Advyth wanted to launch a Twitter campaign #FreeAdvyth. With such a campaign, Fortnite pro Clix escaped a permanent ban in just two days.
But even though Fortnite world champion Bugha shared the hashtag, Advyth could not get the hashtag to trend and it ultimately fizzled out.
The player expressed his frustration: How could it be that Clix gets freed after a day and a half, while he remains in Twitch prison?
I’ll just make a second account
That was the last hope: Advyth’s final idea was to simply create a second account on Twitch, to start fresh and play Fortnite again. He had asked Twitch for permission several times, they hadn’t responded, so he just did it.
The young pro excitedly tweeted shortly after about how great the new channel “Advyyth” (with 2 y’s) was doing. He had already gained 5,000 followers, but then came the bitter awakening.
Twitch permanently banned the new channel again, as such behavior, creating a new channel as a banned user, is seen by Twitch as “evading a ban.” This also results in a permanent ban.
So Advyth is now doubly banned from Twitch forever.
“I am cursed to never have luck or success”
He writes on Twitter: He has streamed 600 hours in 6 months, played up to 18 hours of arena in Fortnite daily, hardly slept. He considers not being able to stream anymore as mental torture.
The young man writes (via twitter):
I am cursed to never have luck or success. This will forever hang over my life. It just is.
Advyth
The big streamer is freed – the small one remains in Twitch prison
What’s behind it: The bitter thing is that Advyth, with 40,000 followers, can scream about his ban on Twitch and it falls on deaf ears. Meanwhile, he sees that the 16-year-old Clix, who is much better known, is unbanned because he can stir up a shit storm on Twitter.
Advyth doesn’t have that opportunity, as he lacks the reach.
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