![]() Another reason given for the platform switch was "Youtube has only downgraded their streaming discoverability over the years which sucks for the streamers." On the week of Januto January 24, 2020, Denino hosted Mixer's first 5-day long game show called "Scuffed Brother" featuring other Mixer streamers and partners. He stated that he was trying out Mixer in comparison to YouTube and that Mixer's community and active staff-support made the community much more welcoming than YouTube. ![]() On August 1, 2019, Denino started streaming on Microsoft's streaming-platform, Mixer. Cx Network subsequently folded in March 2019.ĭenino launched in July 2021 a cryptocurrency named 'CxCoin' with the aim of allowing streamers to receive support despite previously admitting in an earlier YouTube stream that he would use cryptocurrency to scam unsuspecting buyers. On the morning of March 21, 2019, Denino's residence in Los Angeles, was raided by the FBI, all electronics in the house belonging to Denino and the people living with him were seized. His continual swatting provoked a debate within the streamer community on whether such content should no longer be publicized due to the media contagion effect which may encourage more people to swat him and as a result many Twitch/streamer communities banned the posting of swatting clips. Denino's openness about his life has led to multiple incidents in public due to viewers calling and harassing nearby store owners by making baseless threats and warning that Denino is a risk in order to provoke violence or have police called on Denino.ĭuring Denino's trip to Europe, he visited Zurich, Switzerland, and was featured in a tabloid magazine that discussed him being evicted out of multiple hotels for harassment and disobeying filming laws of the country. His streams are known for their 'edgy' humor and interaction with viewers through text-to-speech and viewers meeting him in public by determining his location, a process known as 'stream sniping'. Denino admits that it is nearly impossible to hide anything from the "Purple Army".ĭenino quickly became one of the most popular livestreamers in the world focusing primarily on the IRL genre using a mobile broadcasting rig of his own design. His community is largely based around his sizeable Discord community and his Reddit subreddit /r/Ice_Poseidon which was initially placed under "quarantine" by Reddit, and subsequently banned in October 2019 along with its community-run sister Subreddit /r/Ice_Poseidon2. Some members of the community demanded that Twitch undo the ban citing complaints that the Twitch terms of service were too vague and with Denino stating "when you look at the, there was no rules saying that you shouldn't leak your location".įollowing his ban from Twitch in spring-2017, Denino took to YouTube, taking most of his fans (the "Purple Army") with him, a rarity for streamers.ĭenino's fanbase is controversial, with some describing the community as ‘toxic’ due to their frequent use of racial and sexual slurs, and harassment. The decision to ban Ice Poseidon from Twitch sparked controversy with some believing his ban was unjustified, including Denino himself. While this was not the first time he had been swatted during a livestream it was the first on Twitch to lead to a permanent suspension. The incident made national news across the US as a hoax bomb threat had been called in by one of Denino's viewers under his name. He was banned from Twitch on April 28, 2017, after being swatted on American Airlines Flight 458 in Phoenix, where police officers removed Denino and another person. He frequently traveled around the country IRL streaming, averaging ten to thirty thousand concurrent viewers. During the ban, Denino decided to move to California to pursue his Twitch career full-time. This was his third ban on the platform, this time resulting in a 45-day ban. Denino was banned during the section's launch day because he revealed a phone number on stream. In late December 2016, Twitch announced the launch of the IRL section, allowing Denino to stream without the involvement of gaming for the first time. He moved into streaming IRL, beginning by streaming himself playing Pokémon Go. ![]() He rose to prominence for his Old School RuneScape streams in 2015 playing under the pseudonym "Ice Poseidon" which he created using a random-name generator when he was twelve years old. Denino was a partnered streamer on Twitch.
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