Tyler Faraz Niknam, better known by his online moniker Trainwreckstv, was banned from Twitch in early November 2024. This is the content creator's first Twitch ban in over half a decade.
Trainwreckstv has historically streamed everything from CS: GO and World of Warcraft to Apex Legends, Among Us, Fortnite, and League of Legends. Most recently, the 33-year-old content creator was doing a Rust event, which he started live-streaming via Twitch on November 8.
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A day later, the Amazon-owned streaming service suspended his channel. Trainwreckstv promptly shared some frustrations with this turn of events on social media, noting how he hasn't been banned from Twitch in over half a decade, which is why he feels he should have been cautioned before having his Rust event interrupted. "A warning would've been great," Trainwreckstv wrote in a November 9 tweet.
The content creator's statement also included a screenshot of his ban notice, which reveals that his channel was suspended for "user spam." According to the Twitch community guidelines, this can include everything from intrusive self-promotion and intensive chatbot activity to excessive in-stream alerts...
