Twitch has rules of conduct that it takes very seriously and with which it has no qualms about expel whoever fails to comply, as recently happened to streamer Karina "Karupups" Martsinkevich, who has been banned for 30 days for a somewhat controversial reason.
Last Saturday on his channel he was broadcasting live how I was preparing a Lifeline cosplay, one of the heroines of Apex Legends, reaching around 160 spectators. Being a blonde and white girl, she had to change her physical appearance, so she dyed her hair a reddish color and to mimic Lifeline's skin tone she made up the body a darker shade.
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While what Karupups did at all times was imitate their appearance as much as possible, Twitch decided that it was violating the rules of the platforms after indicating that it was "participating in conduct against a person or a group of people", probably due to being accused by the término blackface, which refers to the makeup that was used in the United States in the XNUMXth century to represent people of color in the theater.
In fact, for this very reason that it is considered an act of racismNot long ago, the character of the video game Chuchel also had to change his colors due to the complaints that the study had received from users. Even so, Karupups has expressed in an interview with Kotaku that she only wanted show viewers how difficult it is to prepare a cosplay and the enormous work behind them.
In addition to apologizing, he has stated in a video that he has uploaded to YouTube that his intention has never been to offend anyone nor was it intended to be taken as a mockery. He just wanted to look like Lifeline, stating that it was just a cosplay of his favorite legend from a computer video game.
Twitch has not commented on this, but this decision applied to the Lithuanian streamer did not stop him from finishing the costume, although he could not do it live. The result, which you can see below these lines, has been published on the Russian social network VK, thanking the users for all the support they have given her and for not leaving her alone in this situation.
