Twitch Suspends Leafy, The Banned YouTuber Who Harassed Pokimane - Kotaku

Today, Leafy’s Twitch account, which he began using frequently shortly after he got banned from YouTube on August 24, stopped showing up on the platform.

“The safety of our community is our top priority, and we reserve the right to suspend any account for conduct that violates our rules, or that we determine to be inappropriate, harmful, or puts our community at risk,” a Twitch representative told Kotaku in an email.

When Leafy first began streaming on Twitch in the wake of his YouTube ban three weeks ago, many streamers were not pleased.

Satirical streamer Kaceytron, for example, wondered on multiple occasions why Leafy was allowed to have an account in light of his previous actions on other platforms (Twitch has rules against “hateful conduct or harassment that occurs off Twitch services that is directed at Twitch users”) and more recent statements.

On August 27, Kotaku reached out to Twitch about Leafy’s history and comments, and the company provided the exact same statement it sent out today, but did not take any public action against Leafy.