SparklyAnarchy

Spiral

So. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Lillie, I’m a disabled trans woman & have been streaming on Twitch for almost a year now at @ lillie_garden, around every other day (over 150 streams since March), & have made it a point to build community explicitly among other transfems, networking exclusively with one another & only platforming eachother.

On the 4th, while I was streaming, with no warning, my twitch account got permanently suspended. The stream cut out, and the only information we got was my page being updated to “This channel is currently unavailable due to a violation of Twitch's Community Guidelines or Terms of Service.”, and an email linking to Twitch’s appeals portal. The email cited “Serious Violent Threats”, with no further details or information. The “Reasons” panel of the appeal’s portal is completely blank.

I’ve been sat here since going over in my head everything that could possibly have warranted such a thing, and none of the possibilities line up, leading me to believe that it was either something done purely automated- twitch themselves admits to using “machine learning tools” in their moderation- or in absolute bad faith.

We’ve been waiting almost a week now for any sort of response from twitch, but how do you even appeal that kind of thing? In panic I just submitted “???? there are no details listed as to why I was suspended”. No response. No reinstatement. Sat here without being able to so much as watch twitch streams logged out- doing so is against their terms of service. I can’t look at my earnings, chat in other members’ channels, even gifted subs from me are listed as from “unknown”.

listen, im a grown woman and if I wanna draw edgy dragon ladies for my Untitled Yuri Project then I WILL goddammit. and I will call her Litanu.