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The Stream Ban Incident is the name given to the period where Brad was banned from Twitch for using a slur.
Overview
Brad's ban from Twitch happened on the 6th September, 2021. At the end of a difficult game where Brad went 1/17 as Venomancer, the silencer on his team used Force Staff to push Brad out of the fountain where he died. Brad then proceeded to report the Silencer for ability abuse, and then stated "Enjoy your report, faggot." Despite immediately deleting the VOD, Brad was swiftly banned for 7 days.
A clip of Bradley saying "faggot" was saved for posterity and is available below.
The Ban
Immediately after Brad said faggot, users began discussing it on Discord, with some people openly stating they had or were going to report the stream. Shortly after Brad stopped streaming, Jett posted a screenshot of Brad's Twitch channel with a message from Twitch stating that the content was unavailable.
Brad pasted the explanation given to him by Twitch, which is as follows:
REASON Hateful Slurs or Symbols Using hateful slurs, hate symbols, or hate group emblems without context or in a harmful manner.
Examples of violative conduct include, but are not limited to: Insulting another person with a hateful slur on stream. Posting an ASCII representation of a hate symbol in chat. Uploading profile content that contains hateful slurs, hate symbols, or hate group emblems.
Read the Hateful Conduct section of Twitch’s Community Guidelines to learn more. WHERE THE VIOLATION OCCURRED On stream or VOD Content related to this violation may be removed. SUSPENSION LENGTH 7 Days
He immediately followed by posting 3 messages: "just a week - relax - honestly i probably need a break anyway"
Shortly after this, Bradley posted an apology in the Stream Updates channel where he also explained why he said it, and then multiple messages in the General channel where he attempted to justify what he said (including blaming The Curse, which he had only recently begun to talk about and hadn't given it a name) and coped about how it was only 7 days, and it wasn't a ban, it was a suspension.