UK Yogscast streamer Pedguin banned on Twitch for use of emotes including a Winnie the Pooh cartoon posterior and hot tub
Dom Sacco, Senior Editor
Last Updated: 22/06/2021
Peter ‘Pedguin’ Mann, UK streamer and member of the UK-based entertainment group Yogscast, has been banned on Twitch.
Pedguin says the ban was due to his emotes, and white Twitch hadn’t apparently told him what was specifically wrong with his latest emotes, it did previously state previous emotes were removed due to ‘imagery of sexualised content or nudity’.
Pedguin had previously submitted slightly different versions of the below Winnie the Pooh-style emotes, which were removed by Twitch, prompting him to make tweaks and changes.
It's not a permanent ban.
— Pedguin (@Pedguin) June 21, 2021
It's upsetting though as I don't think I abused the system. They never told me what was specifically wrong with my emotes, I tried changing the suffixes and the emotes to appease Twitch without guidence, but alas, a ban. pic.twitter.com/HeEs0yhs27
Back in May, Twitch partner Pedguin said his pedTub emote was removed even after Twitch had previously removed it.
The emote was clearly referencing Twitch’s ‘hot tub meta’, which involved female streamers livestreaming from hot tubs or small pools while wearing skimpy outfits.
This trend sparked debate in the Twitch community, with some feeling Twitch should stick to gaming or other non-sexualised IRL content, and that the ‘Just Chatting’ category was getting swamped by these kind of streams.
Twitch eventually responded by adding a separate ‘Pools, Hot Tubs and Beaches’ category and also removed ads from some hot tub streamers.
This led to a new ‘ASMR’ meta, with similarly sexualised content, and just this week Twitch banned popular ASMR/yoga streamers Amouranth and Indiefoxx for ‘sexual content’.
The Saga continues.
— Pedguin (@Pedguin) May 24, 2021
My pedTub emote got removed, after twitch MANUALLY approved it.
This baffles me as sexual suggestiveness is a spectrum that involves some degree of personal interpretation of where the line falls, why does Twitch find my pedTub sexual?
Please grow up. https://t.co/uTcPxXmNpw pic.twitter.com/qRsZDWlmsg
Pedguin’s ban is temporary, though it’s not clear how long it will last.
“It’s upsetting as I don’t think I abused the system,” he said. “[Twitch] never told me what was specifically wrong with my emotes, I tried changing the suffixes and the emotes to appease Twitch without guidence, but alas, a ban.”
Pedguin has almost 400,000 followers on YouTube and plays games such as Minecraft, Among Us and Terraria.
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Dom Sacco, Senior Editor
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He has almost two decades of experience in journalism, and left Esports News UK in June 2025. As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late '80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He also previously worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation.
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