Top creator banned for roleplaying that was too violent

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The role-playing scene in GTA 5 has been the richest breeding ground for a fast career on Twitch for several years. Newcomers have built up a large following there within a few months and made a lot of money. But because of the savory content of GTA 5, the ban is not far away. Twitch has no friends here and even bans the biggest streamers on the platform, like now Kai Cenat, who overdid it with the “erotic role-playing game”.

Warning: We link in the text to the Twitch clip for which the top streamer was banned. The clip is about simulated sexual acts. Harsh language is used. The clip may be perceived as offensive.

Why is GTA 5 so lucrative on Twitch?

  • GTA 5 Online, the 2013 multiplayer game, serves as the basis for GTA 5 role-playing servers such as NoPixel. Streamers play a character they have made up there and interact with the game and other streamers who are also playing their character.
  • For example, many streamers play “criminals” in GTA 5 – while other streamers then play cops chasing them. Because you are constantly interacting with other streamers and their viewers, even as a small streamer you can constantly reach new people and draw attention to yourself.
  • This special form of role-playing game makes GTA 5 a career boost. Synergy effects are created: Similar phenomena could be seen in groups of 4 in Fortnite 2018 and during the pandemic in “Among Us” 2021. Groups of streamers interact with each other and in this way grow much faster than each individual streamer alone.

    • These synergy effects are the basis of success for many stars who nobody knew 4.5 years ago, who built up a large reach on Twitch and are now cashing in on YouTube.

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    How does that work? GTA 5 has fast-tracked some careers:

    GTA 5 is dangerous for Twitch streamers due to “erotic role-playing”.

    What is the risk? But what Twitch streamers learn the hard way: Actually, GTA 5 is not ideal for being shown on Twitch, because there is clearly sexualized content for which you can be banned on Twitch: Because “sexually explicit content is on Twitch banned”. But in GTA 5 prostitutes and strip clubs appear.

    It is even more dangerous when the Twitch streamers engage in “erotic role-playing games” with one another.

    Twitch explains that you decide what is sexual content based on the “general framework and context that surrounds it”: This could mean something like: You can visit a sex club in GTA 5, but you are expressly not allowed to be lewd there behavior.

    This has now even been the fate of the biggest streamer on Twitch, Kai Cenat. Cenat was banned for “repeated, simulated sexual activity in GTA 5.” (via dexerto)

    Kai Cenat was probably banned from Twitch for simulated oral sex

    What did he do exactly? Cenat is apparently banned for “ERP” – erotic role play. Kai Cenat used a streamer to simulate the woman’s character orally masturbating his character for 5 seconds. Then he screams, “My boss! My boss!” and flees the scene, the woman runs after him screaming and demands him to take action.

    That was obviously meant as a gag, but in the eyes of Twitch it is so sexually charged that it was enough for a ban (via tiktok).

    We see: Role-playing in GTA 5 is incredibly lucrative on the one hand, but also dangerous. One wrong gesture or one wrong sentence and the ban hammer hits, no matter if you are a small streamer or one of the big ones like Kai Cenat.

    We have already reported about dangerous places in GTA 5:

    A place in GTA Online is arguably so wicked that visiting it can result in a Twitch ban

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