What You Can’t Say on Twitch. Banned Topics and Words on Twitch

Banned Topics and Words You Can’t Say on Twitch

Similar to the real world, Twitch also enforces us to avoid harassing other people with inappropriate choices of words. There are some words and topics that Twitch urges everyone to avoid and even incorporates severe punishments should their rules be broken.

Using words like “simp”, “virgin”, is no longer allowed as well. This will result in account suspensions and even bans if someone goes overboard and doesn’t take the warnings into consideration.

So, what exactly are we talking about when we say that there are some topics and words that Twitch prevents from ever being brought up in conversation on a stream or in the chat?

Twitch prohibits using words of harassment and violence, especially regarding the following topics:

• Race
• Gender
• Religious Beliefs
• Sexual Orientation

Racial and Homophobic Slurs

This should be pretty obvious but Twitch doesn’t take it lightly when streamers or viewers use racial or homophobic slurs to offend another person. However, even when streamers don’t mean to offend anyone in particular and just use a few slurs in jokes and while gaming, there are still people who can get offended and even report your account.

Not everyone can understand that you’re joking. As a result, Twitch has completely banned the use of any racial or homophobic slurs regardless of whether you’re joking or didn’t mean to offend anyone. In other words, the context isn’t important when it comes to using words and discussing topics that may include or focus on this type of behavior.

In addition, if you’re a streamer and you don’t want this type of behavior in your chat, you have the option to ban as many words as you can from ever being used in chat. You can do this by going to your channel settings, click on “Moderation”, and go to “Blocked Terms and Phrases”.

From there, you can type in any word or phrase that you never want to be shown in chat ever again. Don’t forget to include common misspellings of those words to ensure that users don’t find loopholes and still be offensive.

If all else fails, you can always block someone on Twitch who doesn’t behave properly. It’s an easy process that prevents that person from contacting you in any way or responding to your streams, and so on.

Violence and Threats

Threats of any kind of violence will never be tolerated on Twitch. Regardless of whether it’s self-inflicted violence threats or towards other users, you will get banned from the platform if you use this type of language. Once again, even if you don’t mean it and you’re saying it as a joke, someone could still get offended and report you. As a result, you should be extra careful about this, especially if you’re a streamer.

Threats of violence to yourself are just as bannable as to others. This type of content will never last on the Twitch platform and you can get in real trouble with the platform if it goes on for long. As a result, try to avoid and prevent violent discussions and actions regardless of who it is meant for.

Discussing or Sharing Private Information

Other types of words you can’t use on Twitch include any form of sharing private information that you don’t have permission for. This can include speaking out such information on Stream, typing it in chat, showing photos of it, and even filming someone who has not given you permission to film them.

If you spot such information being shared on your stream, you can check Twitch chat logs to find that person and either block or report them. Twitch chat logs will show you all of the past messages on a particular stream and will also display the user who sent them.

To be even more specific, you can’t share private information about anyone that includes giving out their age, name, living location, identity information, or even message conversations and other private documents. In other words, as long as you don’t have permission about someone’s private information, you can’t share it on Twitch under any circumstances.

Scams and Spamming

Spamming people and sharing any type of content that leads to Twitch scams will get you banned from Twitch. Participating in these types of activities that lead to people getting scammed will eventually result in you losing your account. Suspensions or bans can be either for a brief period of time or it can also be permanent.

So, what do we mean when we say scams and spamming? Well, here’s a list of some of the malicious activities you can’t do on Twitch streams or in chats:

• Posting large amounts of repetitive, unwanted messages or user reports
• Distributing unauthorized advertisements
• Phishing
• Defrauding others
• Spreading malware or viruses
• Misinformation
• Tampering
• Selling or sharing user accounts
• Reselling Twitch services or features
• Defacing, or attempting to deface, website pages or other Twitch services