Everyone who is following the information about the bans must have been very surprised yesterday. Twitch has banned over 200 people at one time.
This is probably the first time that Twitch partner bans have been so well tracked. Yesterday evening, TTV banned more than 200 people at one time. People were convinced that this was some kind of mistake. Today it is known that it was intentional.
The increase in the number of banned people can be seen perfectly in all possible charts. Even the profile, and therefore the page that writes about the suspensions, had to take a stance, writing back that it was not a bug, but that Tweets would be disabled due to a huge amount of them.
What happened?
We wrote a while ago that Middle East streamers stopped receiving payouts. It is now known that this had a direct link to taxes and streamers’ declarations, which Twitch thought were not correct.
The platform has not issued any official position on this matter, but you can guess that it is something like a warning. The bans were applied for 3 days.
So what now? The streamers themselves do not fully know, because some of them have provided the same data for years. It is very possible that TTV thought that the information declared by the streamers is not fully correct and, through bans, it wants to somehow force a re-examination of them.