Natalia Mogollon, who goes by the online moniker Alinity Divine, has been temporarily banned from Twitch. The ban went into place after she accidentally flashed some porn during one of her streams on May 22. Whoops? Except apparently she was tricked.
Divine explained: “Yo so I’m suspended for THREE days. Someone hosted me for 1700 viewers, I went to check out the stream to shout them out… SURPRISE PORN! So hey streamers, trust twitch moderation staff to monitor things and ensure porn doesn’t get up to thousands of viewers? Think again!”
For the olds (me included): Divine is a person who streams videogames — as in, herself playing them — and other things on Twitch. And in case you’re wondering who the heck watches this, the answer is “lots of people.”
According to DigitalTrends.com, Twitch.tv, which Amazon bought in 2017 for one billion dollars, claims over 100 million monthly users. Per Alexa, the site currently ranks #13 for US traffic and #26 for global traffic. Consequently, as one might expect, being a popular Twitch streamer can be lucrative — and getting banned can suck.
Divine is one such popular streamer. According to site metrics, Divine, who is currently 31 years old and hails from Canada, began streaming on the platform in December 2012. She has amassed over 850,000 Twitch followers and, predictably, is also doing respectively well on Insta (249,000+) and Twitter (81,000+).
https://twitter.com/AlinityTwitch/status/1132087530348777477
According to Dexerto, Divine was banned after being “caught by a new trend on Twitch.” Apparently, “mystery accounts” are broadcasting porn before hosting a top streamer with whatever amount of viewers they’ve manage to amass. The streamer — Divine in this case — then gets submarined by whatever content is being broadcast from the channel they are popping over to check out.
Dexerto wrote that “Alinity was eager to check out the channel who sent her almost 2,000 new viewers and was shocked to see the NSFW images appear on her broadcast – leading to a three-day suspension from streaming.”
I’m not even trying to pretend like I understand the appeal of streaming video game play, but many many many others clearly do. And the idea that there are people out there attempting to derail a successful person’s online enterprise via “gotcha” porn displays speaks to something that I do understand: adult content discrimination in wider society.
Unless it goes through some sort of massive rebrand and terms overhaul, there is no reason why adult content should be shown on a channel like Twitch. The notion that adult content “attacks” of this nature are being used to fuck with people, however, is not an issue of Twitch terms and conditions. It’s actually just another brick in the wider, conflicted sex media wall that our society refuses to disengage.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx0GHL5HpQg/
Image of Alinity Divine via Insta here.
