Twitch is currently under fire for their decision to ban a part-time streamer, iRacing streamer Craig Williams, who has collected around 1,300 subscribers on his channel.
Williams, who runs the popular Craig’s Setup Shop for iRacing, was hit with the ban on July 29th, and he has taken issue with the streaming platform for the ban.
Additionally, Twitch has with held payments.
2/2 no research was given into what i did, no questions where asked, from my first email you did nothing to help, you just assumed i was being a fraud, 1300 subscribers and 300+ of that number used NONE PRIME accounts. btw, most professional email iv'e ever recieved pic.twitter.com/bwPaNbDJow
— Craig Williams (@NBDxWilliams) July 29, 2019
Later in the day, Williams tweeted that the ban had been lifted.
Onto the update, @Twitch have removed the ban from my account but I've received no email. hopefully with all the support from you guys they've got people looking into it and hopefully some news comes my way soon, I cannot thank each and every single one of you enough <3
— Craig Williams (@NBDxWilliams) July 29, 2019
There has been some speculation that the email that Williams received from Twitch, may not have been sent by an actual Twitch employee, something that Senior Vice President of Immortals Tomi ‘lurppis’ Kovanen suggested, who added that the employee who sent the email would be fired by the livestreaming company.
Zero chance this is sent by a Twitch employee.
— Tomi (@tomi) July 29, 2019
To clarify, what I mean by that, is that if he at the time of sending was a Twitch employee, he surely no longer is after this was posted hours ago. https://t.co/c6XelvlzdU
Furthermore, Williams received his payouts as well.
1/2 Important announcement, WE DID IT REDDIT!!, I received an email today from Twitch that after a full investigation I've been fully reinstated, all payouts will be sent all bans removed.
— Craig Williams (@NBDxWilliams) July 30, 2019
