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A capture shows the flood of "Ayaya" anime meme streams that took over Twitch's Artifact stream page in May.

Enlarge / A capture shows the flood of “Ayaya” anime meme streams that took over Twitch’s Artifact stream page in May. (credit: Know Your Meme)

In a federal lawsuit filed last week, Twitch accuses 100 unnamed defendants of breaking its terms of service by flooding the site’s directory of Artifact game streams with inappropriate content, including “a video of the March 2019 Christchurch mosque attack, hardcore pornography, copyrighted movies and television shows, and racist and misogynistic videos.”

Inappropriate or irrelevant streams are nothing new on Twitch, of course. The company’s Trust and Safety team uses a variety of moderation tools to take down streams that violate the site’s terms of service and ban the users behind them. But the company is taking the added step of a lawsuit in this case because, according to the complaint, “Defendants’ actions threatened and continue to threaten Twitch and the safety of the Twitch community.”

“Twitch took down the posts and banned the offending accounts, but the offensive video streams quickly reappeared using new accounts,” the complaint continues. “It appears that Defendants use automated methods to create accounts and disseminate offensive material as well as to thwart Twitch’s safety mechanisms.”

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