While this is pretty late news, I think it's still important even to people that don't watch or stream on Twitch.

To summarize, on Jan 6th after the capitol was entered and Ashli Babbitt was tragically murdered, gootecks made several tweets in response to it. An emote of his face was just removed after being the most used emote and being on the site for 10 years.

They claim that he was inciting violence with his latest tweets and while I think it rides the line I feel like it's a bit extreme to say that. He seems vocal politically on his twitter which I haven't had enough time to go through entirely, but he seems pretty based.

The point of this post is to spread awareness of possible censorship, while also trying to get opinions (for myself and maybe others) to better understand where gootecks stands politically.

UPDATE: It seems now that twitch streamers and twitter nuts are calling him "a piece of shit" among other things. Streamers and Twitch themselves are now making rip off, replacement emotes in its place.

Source 1: https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1347003152222937088 Source 2: https://www.polygon.com/2021/1/6/22218059/pogchamp-twitch-removed-emote-ryan-gootecks-gutierrez-trump-capitol-hill