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Clara "Keffals," a Twitch streamer known for political commentaries, was abruptly banned from the platform after announcing a stream directed at criticizing Destiny.
YouTube Gaming streamer Steven Kenneth "Destiny" was permanently banned from the purple platform this March for alleged "hateful conduct," plausibly due to his discussion surrounding a banned user on livestream.
The two political streamers have been at loggerheads for a while due to their opposing ideological stances. More specifically, their standing on trans rights. Clara is a trans activist who has publicly spoken against some of the YouTuber's views. Her recent stream was styled as an expose against Destiny and the ban forced her to shift the livestream to YouTube.
Twitter abuzz after Keffals blames Destiny's community for her Twitch ban
Keffals is a 28-year-old streamer from Ontario, Canada. She's identified herself as transgender since her teenage years, and after turning 18, she transitioned via gender-affirming surgery. She has repeatedly talked about the online hate she receives for her identity.
The ban reportedly happened after she was mass reported for her upcoming stream. She took to Twitter to accuse Destiny and his community of the incident. According to her tweet, after moving to YouTube, her stream was "brigaded" by people belonging to Destiny's community:
"On YoutTube, I was immediately brigaded by destiny's community and we had to turn youtube chat off. He doesn't want me to cover this. I am just about to start discussing his connections to kiwifarms."
Exploring Destiny's connection to the highly controversial chat forum "kiwiforums," known for targeted harassment and group trolling, was supposed to be the crux of Keffal's stream. The seven-hour long stream also discusses his position on trans rights with respect to Destiny's manifesto, a huge document published by the streamer when he got banned from Twitch.
Twitter wonders why Keffals got banned
After she tweeted about her ban, her comment threads were filled with people trying to figure out the reason. While many felt the ban was unjustified, some reckoned her suspension was due to the offensive thumbnail used to promote the upcoming stream. The latter appears to be true:
She even posted pictures to try and incriminate Destiny for the mass reporting which supposedly got her account banned. Some did argue that reporting offensive content is not exactly reprehensible. Twitteratis flooded her threads with arguments both for and against her views, as "Keffals" started trending on the platform:
Political streamers on Twitch and YouTube are almost always marred by one controversy or another. The ramifications feel inevitable since the internet is quite wary of a sensitive discourse.
Keffals has revealed that she will be streaming on YouTube for the next thirty days until Twitch lifts her month-long ban.
