Streamer defies Twitch rules and, hours later, is banned; this happened

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  1 In Mexico, according to a recent study, there are more than 80 million gamers.

  2 Twitch has more than 26 million registered users, of which there are approximately nine million content creators.

  3 Twitch, along with TikTok, was one of the fastest growing platforms during the Covid-19 health emergency.

  4 streamers defies Twitch rules and, hours later, is banned; this happened

  In Mexico, according to a recent study, there are more than 80 million gamers.

• Twitch has more than 26 million registered users, of which there are approximately nine million content creators.

• Twitch, along with TikTok, was one of the fastest growing platforms during the Covid-19 health emergency.

Known as Kai Cenat, the popular streamer He was banned from Twitch after trying to challenge some of its biggest rules during a live stream.

Twitch, an Amazon platform, was launched just over 10 years ago, in 2011, but it was after the health emergency caused by Covid-19 that has been undergoing a great transformation and growthbeing, to this day, the platform for gaming content with the greatest impact in terms of popularity and, above all, time in views.

In this context, taking into account the data published by the agency 3AW, Currently, Twitch spends around 60 million hours of views per day.

As of today, we can say that Twitch has a very solid base of registered users, of which there are approximately nine million content creators, space in which, presumably, the best streamers of the moment are found, including Ibai Llanos, AuronPlay, among others.

In the midst of this scenario, it should be noted that one of the industries that, in some way, benefited the most during the pandemic was the video game industry; today, Thanks to platforms such as Twitch, YouTube Gaming and the now extinct Facebook Gaming, the number of streamers from video games grew up in various parts of the world, including Mexico.

And it is that, as part of the effects of the pandemic, social practices were severely modified, which is why, in Mexico alone, it is estimated that by 2021 there were already 76.7 million Mexican members of the gamer community, six percent more than in 2020.

streamers defies Twitch rules and, hours later, is banned; this happened

At present, a large number of young people want to become streamers and/or content creators. In Mexico, to mention an example, more than 50 percent of young people surveyed by the Morning Consult platformhave thought as a life goal to live from the content generated on social networks and other digital platforms.

And, to tell the truth, we are talking about one of the professions that, as a result of the great boom that was experienced after the health emergency, grew considerably in popularity, due to the income that can be generated.

now be streamer, influencers or content creator also carries a great responsibility, which is why each platform has its own regulations or statutes so as not to violate its community; however, on some occasions, there are cases in which they are the streamers those who defy those rules.

This is what happened with a streamer from Twitch known as Kai Cenat, who has been banned from the platform because, according to what has been reported, in one of his last he decided to try marijuana sweets in front of his thousands of followers. And she did.

Minutes after the ingestion, Cenat was in very bad shape in front of the camera, which is why his account was suspended, as was his own. streamer He made it known through Twitter.

While the reason is not clear yet, viewers are speculating it could be related to having edibles on his stream pic.twitter.com/92TgyzAKYq

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) January 26, 2023

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