Adin Ross Says Twitch Threatened Him

Adin Ross, a famous Twitch user, updated the broadcasting community on February 12 on YouTube.

He said that the site, which is owned by Amazon, had “silenced” him. He recounted having future livestreams where he spoke some “real s**t” after being unbanned following a week-long punishment. Adin Ross then revealed that he had received a call from a Twitch employee warning him that the website would “take him down indefinitely” if he continued to say “certain things.” 

Adin Ross opened the “They tried to silence me” video by explaining that he hadn’t been livestreaming in around two weeks. The Florida native said these things after announcing his return: “I just want to say, I was silenced and I’m going to tell you what I was silenced by and what happened. So, I had a week’s suspension on Twitch and then when I got unsuspended on Twitch, I’d maybe stream two or three times after that.” 

Ross remembered receiving a call from a Twitch employee. He stated that the individual “threatened” him but did not identify them: “And once I was streaming and doing what I normally do, you know, I say some real s**t sometimes, I basically got a call. I’m not going to say specifically who it was, but you know who you are and you basically said, ‘Hey man. If you keep doing controversial stuff and you keep saying certain things and you keep, basically, you know, promoting certain things on your stream, We’re going to have to take you down indefinitely.’ So I got a threat.”

The 22-year-old personality continued by claiming to have laughed at the remark and giving more details: “The first thing I did was I laughed at that because I thought to myself, ‘It’s really like being silenced.’ Because they’re basically saying, I can’t preach what I want to preach without having to worry about getting indefinitely suspended. That made me think and realize, like, this is not safe. I can’t come with this new mindset, on this platform, that I stream on and basically do what I want freely.”

Adin Ross stated that following the conversation, he felt “spooked”: “So anyways, I got that call from them… and it just kind of spooked me a little bit, because this is what I’ve been on obviously. This is how I live my life. I’ve been meditating. I told you guys I’ve been pushing certain stuff and that’s just what I’ve been on! So I don’t want to change for anyone!” 

Adin Ross stated at the end of the two-minute film that he and his group had been developing various “workarounds”: “So my team and I have been thinking of some workarounds. We’ve been thinking of like, stuff that we can do to basically block this off and basically move past this. And we go some stuff in the works. But I’m just here to let you guys know, I don’t really care. Honestly, at this point, I’m going to say what I want to say. I’m going to do what I want to do and I’m going to believe what I want to believe. You know?”