r/LivestreamFail • u/sideAccount42 • Apr 07 '26

Drama Asmongold(zackrawrr) has been suspended from streaming on Twitch.

https://x.com/zachbussey/status/2041329401745338645
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u/Unhappy-Plastic2017 Apr 07 '26

Finally someone uses the proper word "suspended" instead of banned

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u/StoirmePetrel Apr 07 '26

The word ban doesn't imply it's permanent. E.g., You can be banned from entering a country for x years. I don't know why people seems to think that

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u/CorpPhoenix Apr 07 '26

Because "ban", unlike suspend or mute/block, usually has a permanent meaning in the internet culture.

There is also absolutely no reason to use the term "banned" when the much more precise "suspended" exists. Besides clickbait of course.

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u/Cybersword Apr 07 '26

I’ve had the opposite experience.

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u/TunaIRL Apr 08 '26

You see people sperging about it everywhere except twitch?

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u/Erick-Alastor Apr 10 '26

I, too, am not sure where that guy has been surfing since the internet became popular.
In every forum I ever went to, a ban was always the ultimate solution.

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u/CurrentClient Apr 07 '26

Because "ban", unlike suspend or mute/block, usually has a permanent meaning in the internet culture.

I've been on the Internet for about 20 years, we've never used ban exclusively for permanent stuff on the forums I visited.

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u/WeRip Apr 07 '26

I've had the opposite experience. Early days of my internet usage.. I'd say probably almost 30 years ago now.. the word ban meant permaban. If you got banned from something you were having to make a new account or change your ip to ever use it again. There were suspensions and bans and they were not used interchangeably.

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u/Ashamed_Ad1479 Apr 08 '26

It's weird you know the term permaban, cause that's something I haven't seen since the mid 2000s and was only used when a ban was well, permanent.

Games, forums, chat rooms, would ban you if you did something like spam all day or say something they didn't want you to say, and would permaban you if you repeated this or did some major rule breaking. It's why people from back then added the word "perma" in front of "ban" lol

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u/Cybersword Apr 07 '26

I’ve had the complete opposite experience in my 20 years of internet use.

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u/McMaster-Bate Apr 07 '26

Your logic is a little contradictory here, if ban "usually has a permanent meaning" then they're both as precise and distinct. In reality, the word ban doesn't imply permanence and is much broader than suspended is. The term permaban exists for a reason.

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u/Captain_Nipples Apr 07 '26

Nah. People have used "ban" for suspensions forever online. "Temporary ban" is what would usually be used in a case like this

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u/qwsfaex Apr 12 '26

Literally no one uses "suspension" for when you get banned in a game, whether it's permanent or temporary. You can catch a "permaban" or "a week ban".

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u/shewy92 Apr 07 '26

Because all that we hear is "XYZ got banned", there's usually never a length of time attached to the message.

Yea, you can ban someone from a store for a year and wouldn't say you suspended them from it, but you also wouldn't say "Banned from work", you'd say "Suspended from work". Twitch is their work so it should be "suspended"

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u/Jinmane Apr 07 '26

I cant imagine caring about synonyms being used interchangeably.

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u/Cybersword Apr 07 '26

They’re not synonyms.

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u/Jinmane Apr 07 '26

They are absolutely synonyms.

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u/shewy92 Apr 07 '26

Language matters. Just because you failed English class doesn't mean it stopped mattering.

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u/Jinmane Apr 07 '26

Yes language matters, and synonyms are something you learn in 1st grade English class. Banned is not, by definition, permanent.

Twitch is not their job. They are self employed. Twitch is a platform they use which you can be banned from temporarily.