Twitch permanently banned the streamer Matthew “dellor” Vaughn a year ago. The young man was constantly angry and developed the trademark of breaking a keyboard over his own head. At first, there was a lot of shouting, but now dellor is back. He believes it is due to his good behavior on YouTube.
Who is dellor? The now 32-year-old streamer was once a professional Overwatch player of the brand “xQc”: a good player, but completely without filter and therefore practically unbearable.
His career fell apart in 2017 when he made racist comments. So he became a Twitch streamer, but that didn’t go well either.
In April 2019, he lost his partner status on Twitch because he told a female player in Apex Legends, to make him a sandwich – a sexist insinuation towards “women belong in the kitchen.”
dellor is also prone to outbursts and then completely freaked out. He made it his trademark to grab a keyboard in a rage and smash it against his own head.
For breaking another keyboard over his own head Twitch ultimately permanently banned him in October 2019.
Although the streamer emphasized that it was more of a show, he had already broken so many keyboards and nothing had ever happened. But the permanent ban from Twitch due to “self-harm” stood.
The streamer was devastated and expressed suicidal thoughts. He had been depressed for months and did not want to live in this world anymore.
After the Twitch ban, YouTube wanted him badly
This was the turning point: When dellor was so done after the Twitch ban, the head of YouTube Gaming, Ryan Wyatt, reached out to him and publicly sent him a message on Twitter. He wanted to help him.
This gave dellor a boost and subsequently became a successful streamer on YouTube. He now has 740,000 subscribers there.
dellor was banned from Twitch when YouTube decided to dive deeper into live streaming. They seemed grateful for every big streamer they could poach from Twitch.
Some streamers who were banned from Twitch have since moved to other platforms: Corinna Kopf switched to Facebook – Dr Disrespect has landed on YouTube.
Streamer says: He was addicted and in debt, is now a different person
That was his apology: In September 2020, dellor officially apologized to Twitch and requested the lifting of his ban.
The Twitter post has since been deleted. dellor wrote in it (via essentiallysports):
- he had streamed 4000 hours on Twitch
- he now wants a second chance – he has improved
- he was addicted to meth and Adderall and had accumulated ten thousand dollars in debt, had family problems and mental health issues
- now he has completed several therapies and he is “no longer a beast”
- now he has much to lose: His mother is watching him now, his brother, and his little niece
- therefore he wants a new chance. He wants to stream for a long time and be a good example for gamers.
The abuse of the drug Adderall is apparently a huge issue in online gaming, particularly in the Overwatch League. It is actually intended for the treatment of ADHD.
Still angry, but now unbanned
This is what happened now: In fact, dellor has now been unbanned on Twitch. He can hardly believe it and is overjoyed.
Especially since he has often and gladly criticized and cursed Twitch, this surprises him now.
dellor believes Twitch has now noticed that he has truly improved and wants to give him a second chance. He has worked so hard on himself.
However, the most successful videos on his YouTube channel are still “Mega Rage Compilations”: At first glance, it does not seem like much has changed. He still gets terribly upset when he dies in shooters like CoD Warzone and flails wildly.
But nowadays he only throws his headset on the ground and at least leaves the keyboard intact. Apparently for him a “great improvement” and “hard work.”
Whether he will return to Twitch is unclear: But due to the unbanning, he is now allowed to participate in tournaments streamed on Twitch and collaborate with Twitch streamers. He mentioned this in his letter to Twitch as reasons why he wanted to be unbanned.
As long as a player is banned on Twitch, other Twitch streamers must avoid any contact with him on camera.
“Forever” is a relative term on Twitch. Streamers can appeal permanent bans on Twitch. But what criteria are used to decide whether someone will be reinstated seems completely opaque.
The German streamer MontanaBlack once explained how hard the permanent Twitch ban hits a colleague:
MontanaBlack explains how harsh the permanent Twitch ban hits a colleague
