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Most social media platforms are required by law to have new users be 13 years or older to create an account. Twitch is no dissimilar. But if y'all joke about existence 12 in chat, yous will get banned from the streaming platform — fifty-fifty if y'all already reached the required age to use information technology.

Streamer Toastie shared a prune from her recent Twitch stream on Twitter talking about how she has seen many of her fans get banned from Twitch for typing that they're 12 as a joke in chat. She talked about one user by the name of hughseyy_ as an case.

"You can't say 'I'm 12' guys," Toastie said. "I have seen people become banned for that in my own channel. If you say 'I am 12' and then get 'haha joke,' there's a bot on Twitch that will ban you. So don't even."

In the middle of her lecture, hughesyy_ initially typed "I'g 13" and and then wrote "pitiful I meant 12," despite Toastie's warnings. "All information technology takes is for someone to report you lot and y'all're gone," she said. Five minutes later, Toastie discovered that hughesyy_'s account got banned from Twitch indefinitely. Seeing another member of her community get banned from the platform for doing something she told them not to immediately left her speechless.

Twitch seems to take care of underage users equally swiftly equally they do with other issues, such as bigotry and harassment. If information technology finds out that you're under xiii, whether you're telling the truth or not, your account tin can exist taken downwards apace. With COPPA being focused on protecting children 12 and under online, its hands are tied.