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FaZe Clan member Kaysan has stated that Twitch has demonetized his channel for having "Iran" as a tag for his livestream. On November 13, 2024, a two-minute-31-second video from his recent broadcast surfaced on X. In it, he detailed his conversation with a Twitch representative after discovering that he had not received the ad revenue when he checked his dashboard on the platform.
Claiming that he was not paid despite running 180-second ads every eight minutes, the streamer said:
"I go to my Twitch dashboard. Right? This month, I noticed that... I was receiving zero dollars in ad money. This whole month, while running ads this month, right? I ended up messaging my Twitch rep, who I'm not going to name. And I asked her, I said, 'Hey, this has to be a mistake. I go to my activity and it says that I'm running 180-second ads every eight minutes.' Which is strange, right? I see it. It's on my activity!
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"She came back and told me that, essentially, I got demonetized because I had Iran as a tag. As you guys know, in the bottom, it says, 'FaZe, English, Call of Duty,' and I got demonetized because I had Iran as a tag. As you guys know, I'm Iranian, and I've had that same tag for about two years."
"I'm actually very curious to know if streamers like HasanAbi have been demonetized" - FaZe Kaysan responds after his Twitch channel gets demonetized
FaZe Kaysan continued the discussion, stating that he does not speak about politics on his channel. Wondering if Twitch had made the same decision against political commentators like Hasan "HasanAbi," the 29-year-old said:
"As you guys know, I don't speak about politics. I don't come on here and speak about politics. I'm actually very curious to know if streamers like HasanAbi have been demonetized for talking about politics."
FaZe Kaysan added that he does not "blame" the Amazon-owned platform for the move:
"Now, I'm not going to sit here and blame Twitch necessarily because I don't know the facts. But I do know that she said that it was advertisers who have been steering away from 'politics.' I think because of the election. So, I guess, advertisers didn't want to run ads on my stream because I had Iran as a tag."
Twitch has yet to respond to FaZe Kaysan's channel being demonetized.
