Twitch Suspended Streamer Quqco For Her "Sexually Suggestive" Cosplay

Sep. 17 2019, Updated 11:32 a.m. ET

On September 15, Twitch consumer Quqco posted to Twitter that she were given banned from the live streaming platform for wearing...a Chun-Li (from Streetfighter) costume? Seems a little excessive, proper? She tweeted, "I just got banned again for wearing a Chun Li cosplay. I am fully covered. I don't understand @TwitchSupport @twitch how this is sexually suggestive content?" Quqco used to be dressed in blue qipao and bun covers, and thigh-high slits that Twitch apparently thought was sexually suggestive. 

Quqco tells Kotaku, “I in truth bought one dimension as much as make sure that the slit wasn’t too excessive. The slit of this get dressed is cut not up to some runner shorts I own.”

Quqco additionally tweeted, "I've reached out to @TwitchSupport to understand the cause of my @Twitch ban. I haven't received any clarifications yet. I don’t believe my ban was justified, as there was no sexual intent nor content."

However, some other people think that Quqco did violate Twitch's community insurance policies with her outfit.

Twitter user Kristi [PTO] in Japan answered to Quqco's tweet, pronouncing "Here's the clip that's not going viral. Purposely angling the camera at your crotch is sexually suggestive behavior. Are there worse things happening that should be banned? Absolutely. But being dishonest for sympathy is for the birds. Thanks for coming to my TED talk." Another replied, "...She repeatedly angles the camera and scoots to get her crotch back in frame, then keeps moving her clothes to expose as much as possible and drawing attention to it."

While others are protecting Quqco, announcing Twitch's reasoning is misogynistic.

Twitter person etchi wrote, "These are the same type of people that see sexualisation in innocent anime, twitch owes you a public apology," while a Rimmer tweeted, "It sounds like Twitch banned you for being a woman. I've never heard of any men being banned for adjusting their camera angle. @Twitch is an awful sexist hellsite." 

Quqco even defended herself against Kristi [PTO] in Japan and tweeted, "In this very clip, you can see that I'm fumbling with the camera and at the very end trying to pull the camera up. I'm not trying to direct the camera at my crotch- that is such a frightening narrative to paint me with." 

So, what are Twitch's rules exactly?

Twitch has a protracted checklist of restrictions when it comes to sexuality and nudity, however none of it is explicit (i.e., none of it says "you can't wear a thigh-high dress that doesn't show your vagina.") Part of Twitch's pointers learn:

Quqco was banned via Twitch once earlier than — for cosplaying as Mai Shiranui from The King of Fighters. 

Quqco believes that Twitch suspended her for this as a result of she used to be "report brigaded" (which is when a bunch of other folks document others en masse) by way of subreddit Livestreamfail. In a deleted tweet, Quqco wrote, "I was sexually harassed. All I wore was a Mai cosplay while I was drawing." You can head over to Dextero to find what the Twitch user was wearing, but the outfit was once very an identical — thigh-high slits and a low-cut best. According to Dextero, Quqco was once allegedly banned for revealing her undies when she bent over to pick out something up.

The Twitch consumer thinks trolls had been concentrated on her for awhile now.

According to Kotaku, Quqco thinks her suspension over her Chun-Li outfit is a result of “a group of trolls who've been concentrated on me for mass reporting for a while...I'm immediately reported as a result of I’ve been branded a thot." Kotaku was able to confirm that they saw a (now deleted) comment on Livestreamfail that read, “Lmao saw her streaming again today and instantly reported the thot.” 

The idea that there's rampant sexism on Twitch is an understatement. It's been shown again and again what a hostile space Twitch can be for female streamers. A reported showed that "Female channels are characterised by way of words about bodily look, the frame, relationships, and greetings whilst male channels are characterised via game-related words. The content material in female channels percentage commonplace words that signal objectification." 

In truth, Kotaku found a "Boob Police" who literally go through Twitch and look for women they think are "violating" Twitch's guidelines and troll them.

Would Quqco be treated the same way if she were a man? Sadly, probably not. In fact, just a month ago, male gamer xQx literally streamed pornographic content during a live broadcast (he showed a man's penis). And he was only suspended for 24 hours, versus Quqco, who is suspended for three days for "too short" of a dress. It's undeniable that Twitch's guidelines are very much slanted against women streamers.

Regardless, Twitch has been cracking down on "NSFW" content material, and it kind of feels like ladies are unfairly getting the worst of it. 

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