I’m not hip with these guys but I thought Ninjas biggest sin was  the fact that he didn’t play with women streamers because of an agreement with his wife. Not the best optics but hardly the level of shit this guy has done.  

Twitch signed him for $4.5 Million just this year, and Corona has led to Ad Revenue falling pretty much all across the board. With Corona not going away anytime soon, and since he apparently cheated on his wife with four different women over two years, Twitch needed to decide just how worth it he really is.

Doctor Dre was able to return to his true passion of thoracic surgery after his rap career. 

There are a LOT of great people on Twitch, its the shitty viewers that rise the garbage to the top

I wonder if having the competitor that might have paid him a ton of money to come to them being gone had anything to do with their decision. Then again, I can’t see Microsoft ever courting someone like this dude, there’s too much toxicity around him. 

I don’t see how cheating on your wife constitutes to a sudden ban though. Dr Disrespect certainly isn’t no ray of sunshine and has been one of the toxic streamers on the site, but it would be nice to know the reason he was banned, especially if it’s one of his past events. If it’s something more serious then I guess…

For one, Mixer is gone. With less competition, they don’t have to tolerate “talent” that brings in money.

Tech business in general have a hard time conceiving of anything between free rein and full bans, even if they weren’t all prone to condone behavior that doesn’t hurt their bottom lines. They fear the slippery slope of consequences much more than consequences.

I’m increasingly convinced the (likely temporary) loss of major advertisers such as Verizon and others of that level that are hitting Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram is a likely factor.

I think Twitch has reached a point where they don’t need any individual user to become too big for their britches. They don’t need those top tier earners like Dr. D or Ninja. They just need every other streamer to believe they can reach that level. That’s where the money is.

The excuse always lobbed up from fans of these personalities are that it’s all a ‘schtick,’ and comedy. As if all these edge-lord streamers went to school for performance, spent years studying and working their craft. No, as we are seeing again and again, they’re just shitty people.

Your assumption is that those 20k viewers wouldn’t be watching something else on Twitch if it wasn’t for him.

My guess is someone went directly to Twitch, or the incident occurred behind the velvet rope at a Twitch event.

“In other words, Wyoming is a well-rounded working-class state. A new state of Washington would not be.”

I don’t understand Twitch. It’s like someone opened a garbage store, then one day decided, “I can’t have all this trash lying around here!”

My cervixes were connected, like a 8, so it was hard to tell which one you were looking at. At least, until I had a kid because there's a difference in your cervix when you've carried a pregnancy. 

That was my first thought as well, that surely one of her exams or pregnancy checkups would have found it? Or is it more of a one over and you’re good?

From the linked article:

How are new content creators gonna be any less a bunch of self-obsessed assholes than the current crop?

What I’m struggling with here is ‘funny and unproblematic’. Who? And before anyone lists off their current favs... ask yourself this. 10 years from now, what will be the standard for unproblematic. Hell. 5 years. Expecting great purges of all that might be offensive (and isn’t THAT a slippery slope. We do have that…