At TwitchCon, NBC News spoke with a dozen women who said they had experienced harassment on the platform. It definitely puts you in a dark place.”Īlthough harassment of women isn't exclusively a Twitch problem, Quqco is just one of scores of women on the site who say they face regular harassment simply for their gender.
… There’s this huge brigade of trolls and thousands of comments sexually harassing you or racially harassing you.
“I wondered what did I do to make these people so angry. “I felt very sorry for existing,” Quqco said of her initial reaction to being banned. They keep a watchful eye out for women streamers who “violate the sanctity of Twitch as a gaming site,” and report them when they determine they have broken a rule, Kotaku reported. However, Twitch has a growing number of users who consider themselves vigilantes, according to video game news site Kotaku. NBC News was unable to independently confirm that Quqco’s account was mass-reported. Twitch said it has doubled the number of people working for its moderation team over the last year. High profile figures such as Drama Alert host KEEMSTAR and controversial YouTuber PewDiePie have all supported the rumor that Alinity gets preferential treatment from Twitch moderators. Out of respect for streamers’ privacy, Twitch doesn’t comment on individual moderation cases, a spokesperson told NBC News. Quqco has been streaming on Twitch for more than two years, but she said the incident earlier this month marked the second time in recent weeks that she was banned for alleged “sexually suggestive content or activities.” If she receives another strike, she will be permanently banned from the platform. Although the ban lasted only three days, she has appealed the strike on her account to Twitch, which has not explained what violation triggered the ban. About an hour and a half after it started, the livestream abruptly disconnected.Ĭonfused, Quqco soon realized she had been banned. At one point, she said she was adjusting her camera and momentarily tilted the camera downward. The trolling happened during a stream where Quqco was dressed as the character Chun-Li from the video game “Street Fighter” - a costume that covers her entire torso, with only her thighs exposed. “Very recently, I’ve been on - there’s a subreddit called ‘LiveStreamFails.’ Unfortunately, I caught the attention of that subreddit, which has a lot of angry men,” Quqco said in an interview ahead of TwitchCon.
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