US EditionKanye West joins streaming service Twitch and gets banned after seven minutes
- Rapper Kanye West, also known as Ye, received a ban from Twitch on April 25, 2025.
- His broadcast included slurs against Jewish people and the LGBTQ+ community, violating platform guidelines.
- The livestream lasted just seven minutes, featuring antisemitic remarks and claims of social media "free passes".
- The platform replaced his page with a message stating, "This channel is temporarily unavailable," after only seven minutes.
- Twitch immediately removed his channel, continuing a pattern of platform actions following his controversial behavior and remarks.
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Ye Got Banned From Twitch Just 7 Minutes Into His First Livestream—And Yep, That Tracks
Rapper, producer, and fashion designer Ye created his own Twitch account early Friday. He had already made several controversial appearances in other people's content before creating his own account. For those unfamiliar with Twitch, it is a livestreaming platform known mostly for gaming content. It also hosts livestreams about music, art, dance, other forms of creative content, and "in real life" (IRL) streams of people doing anything from the…
Kanye West Gets Banned from Twitch in Just 7 Minutes After Hitler Salute, Rant About Impregnating Paris Hilton
Troubled rapper and entrepreneur Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, began streaming on the Amazon-owned livestreaming app Twitch Friday, but the online broadcast was short-lived after he reverted to his now-familiar Nazi antics.
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