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Asmongold Says Twitch Suspension Will Last 14 Days; Platform Has Not Stated Why
Zack ‘Asmongold’ Hoyt says Twitch suspended his Zackrawrr channel for 14 days and did not tell him what conduct led to the penalty. The action followed backlash over his remarks advocating shooting people crossing borders, including children, but Twitch has not publicly tied the ban to those comments.
- Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt says his Zackrawrr Twitch suspension will last 14 days.
- He says Twitch did not identify the conduct that led to the penalty.
- The ban followed backlash over comments advocating shooting people crossing borders, including children, but that link remains unconfirmed by Twitch.
Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt, a livestreamer and YouTuber who first became known for World of Warcraft broadcasts and now also makes commentary content, says his secondary Twitch channel, Zackrawrr, has been suspended for 14 days. He says the Amazon-owned platform did not tell him what he did wrong.
That leaves an important limit on what is known. The suspension followed widespread backlash to Hoyt’s August 3 remarks about people crossing borders, including women and children. But Twitch has not publicly identified the Community Guidelines provision it applied or said that those remarks caused the penalty.
Reported suspension lengths stated by Hoyt: an entire week in April and two weeks in August. Neither identifies the policy basis for the August suspension. Source: Kotaku.
What Hoyt says happened
A suspension notice appeared on Zackrawrr on August 6, saying Hoyt could not stream because of a violation of Twitch’s Community Guidelines, according to a report on the channel notice. The notice did not name a rule.
In a later YouTube video described in a report, Hoyt said the suspension would last two weeks. He said he had received no email explaining it and was only guessing it was related to “the thing that everybody was mad about.” Twitch did not respond to a request for comment in that report.
The timing is not an official explanation. The available accounts establish the duration through Hoyt and the existence of a Community Guidelines notice; they do not establish which specific content Twitch evaluated or how it selected the sanction.
The remarks behind the backlash
The controversy began during an August 3 stream in which Hoyt reacted to a video about Moroccan migrants in Ceuta, Spain. The reporting records him discussing people crossing borders with children and saying, “I’d shoot whoever,” including “kids, women, men, anybody.”
