PewDiePie has been banned from Twitch for the second time this year, just one week after announcing the birth of his first son.
In case you missed it, YouTuber PewDiePie - real name Felix Kjellberg - has now welcomed his first child with wife Marzia Kjellberg. The couple first announced that they were expecting back in February. The streamer, aged 33, took to Instagram to reveal that they’d named their son Björn. Yes, like the singer from ABBA or the character from Vikings. Pick your pop culture reference. Putting a damper on the joyous mood though, PewDiePie has now been banned from Twitch again for the second time this year after a previous ban was enacted in May.
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Back in May, PewDiePie - who is primarily a YouTube streamer - began restreaming old content on his Twitch channel. The ‘infinite’ content loop didn’t exactly go down well with fans seeing as it wasn’t a real return to Twitch. Days later, the channel was hit with a ban. Many assumed it was this ‘livestreaming’ loophole that led to the ban, but PewDiePie later clarified that he assumed it was due to some content contained in his restreamed 2017 videos.
Now, as reported by GameRant, the streamer has been banned for a second time this year. As is always the case with Twitch, no official reason has been given but seeing as the channel was still restreaming old content, we could have history repeating itself. Last time, the ban was lifted after a few days, so I’m sure the channel will be back up and running before we know it. It’s far less severe for Kjellberg than, say, a ban on his YouTube account. The last ban ran for three days.
PewDiePie boasts a whopping 111,000,000 subscribers on YouTube. He was once king of the platform but now sits in fifth place behind Sony Entertainment India, Cocomelon, T-Series, and MrBeast. He uses Twitch as a secondary platform.
