Fortnite star Tfue uses racial slur, but Twitch isn't commenting on rule violation
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Fortnite streamer Taylor "Tfue" Tenney uttered a racial slur during a live broadcast of himself playing Minecraft, in violation of Twitch's policy.
In the now-deleted clip from Tuesday night, Tenney can be heard saying, "You guys f---ing killed all the villagers, man. Y'all motherf---ers killed them n----s."
Fox News reached out to Twitch, which is owned by Amazon, and Tenney himself, for comment on this story, but received no response.
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In a tweet sent Tuesday evening, Tenney wrote: "I’ve been having such a s--t day but hopefully it gets better."
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This apparently isn't the first time that Tenney has used a racial slur.
Last year, he was temporarily suspended from Twitch after calling another player another racial epithet, according to Newsweek. In a separate incident, Tenney was banned because of a "toxic" conversation, reports The Verge.
The company, however, imposes a three-strikes rule in its guidelines covering account suspensions and chat bans: “After two strikes, the next violation will result in an indefinite suspension, but some severe violations will result in an indefinite suspension on the first violation.”
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It remains to be seen whether Twitch will enforce it against Tenney, who has more than 6.9 million followers on the platform.