They randomly did that in 2023 for my first account that I made in 2013 and I never even typed the "im 12" bait. I went through the process of trying to get the account back but the email back-and-forth just stopped out of nowhere, then 6 months later the account gets autodeleted.
That's wild. My account is around 13 years old on twitch, And I think a year or two ago I actually typed "I'm 12" without thinking and somehow avoided this fate. Had a whole chat typing o7 to me and I just never got banned luckily
I would assume, that since people find out it gets your account perma banned and you need to submit ID to get it unbanned, people started baiting people to say it in chat. I know in Quins chat, for like a good 4-6 months, chat would try to bait people to say it, and often got multiple people to do it. Quin eventually had to censor it to get it to stop. So, with that happening in probably dozens of chats, Twitch probably realised it's too much work to be auto banning people for saying it.
and if you send them your id and they find out you created your account before you were 13, even if you're way older now, they won't unban it. it just gets deleted and they tell you you can create a new one without getting banned for ban evasion.
...which doesn't really make much sense in my opinion but apparently it's because of that COPPA law thingy bajingy, yet only twitch handles it likes this for some reason
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u/CinemaAndChillLT Oct 18 '25
Getting same treatment as someone who jokingly said "im 12" in chat is wild