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- Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, created his own Twitch account early Friday. “Yeezy_Stream” was taken down just seven minutes after going live after the rapper almost immediately launched into a tirade against Jewish and LGBTQ+ people.
Despite regularly appearing in streams with, and alongside, famous Twitch streamers like Kai Cenat, Adin Ross, and Amouranth, it looks like Ye’s own Twitch career will be short-lived. After creating his own Twitch account on Friday, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West got banned by the platform for sharing hateful rhetoric.
According to The Daily Beast, Ye almost immediately launched into a tirade about Jewish people and the LGBTQ+ community during his inaugural Twitch stream, using slurs and throwing up a Nazi salute while saying “Heil Hitler.”
Ye also notably claimed Elon Musk gave him “free passes” to post his unfiltered thoughts, including a series of disparaging posts about his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, on X.
In just about seven minutes, Ye’s stream was replaced by a message from Twitch that said, “This channel is temporarily unavailable due to a violation of Twitch’s Community Guidelines or Terms of Service.”
According to Dexterto, Ye accumulated about 3,000 followers and over 1,000 viewers during his minutes-long stream.
Twitch did not immediately respond to Fortune‘s request for comment.
It’s unclear how long the ban will last, but Ye has a history of getting banned from social networks for his speech and rhetoric. Ye, who is worth roughly $2.7 billion as of 2025 thanks to his long successful career in music, was banned from Twitter (now X) in October 2022 for saying he would go “death con 3 on Jewish people.” He was also suspended just two months later for tweeting an image that combined the Star of David with a swastika. In a recent sitdown with DJ Akademiks this month, Ye showed up to the interview wearing an all-black KKK-inspired hood and outfit.
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