Keffals Claims She Received A Twitch Ban For Openly Discussing Hate She Received Online

Prominent trans streamer Keffals has been banned from Twitch for what she describes as openly discussing the harassment she's faced on the platform, which has subsequently sparked backlash against the streaming site from many online.

On July 18th, Keffals prepped a livestream where she was going to discuss the harassment she'd received from Steven “Destiny” Bonnell. In March, Keffals reported Destiny for transphobic comments in a debate about the Lia Thomas swimming controversy and encouraged her followers to do the same. Destiny was banned from Twitch days later.

Keffals has accused Destiny of directing his followers and Kiwi Farms frequenters to harass her. She believes she was banned because the thumbnail for her video showed examples of slurs she had been called and that Destiny encouraged his followers to mass report her for violating Twitch's policies against hate speech. She backed up her allegation with screenshots of Destiny's chatlogs that she'd received.

Keffals was banned before her stream began. Her appeal was then rejected and she now faces a 28-day ban from the platform. She now plans to stream on YouTube in the wake of the controversy.

Her ban once again led to criticism of Twitch and its content violation protocol, as many felt Keffals had not committed an offense that warranted the punishment.

Day number 1206294 of @Twitch moderation being a complete fucking joke https://t.co/nXNn8LBYt2

— Taylor K (@SpaceW_) July 21, 2022

Remember when @Twitch celebrated diversity last month? Sadly June is over so they don't care anymore. https://t.co/wdNyKqNkWN pic.twitter.com/TQJmu15l6b

— syaoran junino (@SyaoranSama) July 21, 2022

Keffals' ban adds to a long list of controversial bans on Twitch's part that has left many creators confused about its rules.

In April, Twitch banned, unbanned, then re-banned trans streamer Narcissa Wright after she tweeted she was going to "shoot up" Twitch HQ. Late last year, Hasanabi was banned for saying "cracker."