Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt broke his silence on a recent Twitch suspension in a new video on YouTube in which he confirmed that the temporary ban will last 14 days, and he’s still not sure what caused it. “I’m just guessing it’s probably the thing that everybody was mad about,” he said.
One of Hoyt’s Twitch channels was suspended last week following a rant he went on that attempted to rationalize the shooting of people who are illegally migrating across country borders, including women and children. “I’d shoot whoever, if it’s kids, women, men, anybody, they’re gonna stop coming over,” he told his millions of followers.
He didn’t immediately comment on the ban when it happened. Then over the weekend, he posted a YouTube video explaining his absence. He said the Twitch ban is set to last 14 days and the Amazon-owned company refused to tell him what it was for, though he speculates it was the comment about shooting kids. He mentioned that in the past he’s received emails from Twitch explaining the situation around much less serious penalties.
“I wish I could just talk to them,” Hoyt said. “It’s really funny. So, like Twitch emails me and they say like, ‘Uh, yeah, you had an accidental content violation because you accidentally showed something on your stream you shouldn’t have showed.’ And like they send me an email for this. I said, ‘Uh,’ I respond back, I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, my bad, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to do that.’ And so then I get suspended for two weeks. No email. I don’t have any email. So, this is the funniest thing, by the way. I actually don’t even know this is why I got banned. Twitch has never communicated to me what the thing is that I did wrong that got me banned. I’m just guessing it’s probably the thing that everybody was mad about, right?”
Asmongold apologizes for nothing and meant exactly what he said
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Twitch’s community guidelines and its enforcement of them have been a perpetual moving target which, like most social media platforms, ends up being heavily swayed by the outcomes the loudest users are advocating for. This was less of an issue back when it was primarily a video streaming site for video games. As its biggest personalities have branched out into talk shows and political commentary, Twitch has been increasingly thrust into a culture war it’s ill-equipped to navigate.
Following Hoyt’s latest Twitch ban, the streamer once known for playing World of Warcraft said he’ll “tone” things down to avoid more suspensions, but said he won’t back down from his increasingly extreme and racist views.
“I apologize for absolutely nothing,” he said. Hoyt later continued, “People can say I’m mean, they can say I’m evil, they can say everything, but they’re not saying I’m wrong. And I think that ultimately we should look at a lot of these uncomfortable truths with a lot more of a clear mind rather than allowing it to be polluted by people that I think want to hurt us. People that want to put us in a position that is not advantageous. And that’s the reason why I communicate the way that I do. It is hopefully to normalize this type of language and for people to see things for what they are rather than what they want them to be. And I think that’s for better and for worse. So that’s the reason why I talk the way that I do. I’m not sorry. It’s probably not going to have to it’s probably not going to stop. I might try to t I’m going to try to obviously tone it down a little bit because I don’t want to get suspended all the time.”
Twitch did not respond to a request for comment.
