The popular streamer Ludwig switched from Twitch to Team YT-Gaming due to a lucrative offer from YouTube. However, in his streams on the new platform, he struggles with having to “create content”.
What happened? Since his switch from Twitch to YouTube a week ago, streamer Ludwig has repeatedly gotten into trouble. He could be the new record contender for the shortest paid stay at YouTube. Just three days after his start at YouTube Gaming, the platform banned him for the first time.
- First ban: December 3, 2021
- Second ban: December 5, 2021
- Third ban: December 6, 2021
And the third ban follows at once: Are his contents to blame?
This is the possible reason: Ludwig felt unappreciated on Twitch, but on YouTube, he apparently has to invest more work than he thought. After ban number two and recently ban number three, he told his Twitch colleagues:
I didn’t know I really had to create content on this platform. (…) I damn well can’t just react (to videos)!
Ludwig in a stream with HasanAbi
Ludwig believes that the latest ban stems from the copyright system. YouTube enforces measures much more strictly than Twitch, it is said. While Twitch sees reacting to others’ content as sufficiently altered and adapted, YouTube and Papa Google don’t take it lightly.
The Content ID system from Google quickly filters out YouTubers – so quickly that it can happen even during a stream click and the channel disappears.
Ludwig’s streaming colleague HasanAbi claims that what Ludwig says is “literally wrong”. According to him, it cannot be due to the Content ID system, as there are plenty of other streamers who react to videos without ever receiving a single ban.
Colleague Valkyrae often reacts in her YouTube streams to funny videos that her community is allowed to send. She claims she has never received a ban for copyright infringement. However, Ludwig states that he has been given exactly these reasons via automated notifications.
What are the consequences of the bans? Close the stream, restart the stream – done. That’s how easily Ludwig circumvents the bans. Only once was he excluded from streaming for an extended period.
In a YouTube video, he says the problem with the ban is not that the channel could be deleted. Far simpler and more annoying, however, is that viewers drop off. He doesn’t suffer any further losses (via youtube.com).
