Twitch Streamer Trihex Banned for Using Homophobic Slur

Popular Twitch streamer, speedrunner and Tempo Storm member Mychael "Trihex" Jefferson has been officially banned from the Amazon owned live streaming platform after he had used a homophobic term while streaming. The use of the term that Trihex himself states was of a "derogatory nature" goes against the Terms of Service for Twitch. 

While live on his stream, Trihex called one of his friends a "f*****"" and has since been banned from twitch for an unspecified amount of time. With bans for the platform usually lasting for 30 days, such as the ban that fellow streamer and former professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) player Mohammed "m0E" Assad received for the use of the same slur, Trihex will likely be back streaming in a month's time. 

Trihex took to his Twitter account on Sunday, October 6th to address his ban and apologize for his use of the homophobic slur. The Twitch streamer and speedrunner explained that in his past he had frequented areas of the internet and chat rooms where the language that led to trihex being banned from the platform was "normalized". Trihex also went on to state that he would be using his time way to "reflect and reform" in order to stop the usage of the derogatory language by himself and his community.

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— Tempo | trihex (@trihex) October 7, 2018

While this is the first bannable offense from the streamer and speedrunner, the popular personality has unfortunately been no stranger to controversy in the past with his likeness being used for the universal Trihard Twitch emote which has been cited as being used in a racist manner by Twitch users in the past.

Now, Trihex will have to wait what is likely to be a 30 day ban before he can return to his streaming on Twitch and avoid being caught in the middle of another controversy centered around his actions on his stream. 

H/T - Game Rant

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