He was banned from the platform in February 2023, with Twitch later stating that the decision was in response to his failure to control offensive and unmoderated comments in his chat during a stream.

The great thing about Twitch chat is that it runs on vanilla IRC ... If the data is “PING”, we respond with “PONG” as per typical IRC practice to keep the connection alive.

Announced during its Patch Notes stream on Wednesday, Twitch is adding a new setting which will allow streamers to choose whether or not viewers who are banned from chat are also blocked from ...