Content moderation Compared to its competitor
Twitch, Kick has looser policies against copyright infringement, hate speech, gambling content, harassment, and sexual content. However, its community guidelines prohibit those behaviors, as well as
doxing and violent conduct. A representative of the website said in March 2023 that the platform was in the process of expanding its moderation efforts and that it did not tolerate hate speech or copyright violations. Other content creators of the platform have had sex while streaming, brandished sex toys at children and made sexual remarks toward underage girls. After being banned from Twitch for what the streaming platform called "unmoderated hateful conduct on chat" in 2023, streamer
Adin Ross migrated to Kick, where he livestreamed the
Super Bowl, scrolled through
Pornhub and invited
white nationalist Nick Fuentes on a livestream. Kick streamer
Hikaru Nakamura said that the platform was undergoing the same initial journey as other social media websites, including Twitch, which he said was "very much the Wild West" when it started. Nakamura further said that it usually takes time for such websites to adapt. Ed Craven, founder and owner of the streaming platform Kick, was active in the stream chat while this was unfolding, sending laughing emotes. The woman attempted to leave the hotel room but was temporarily blocked by the third streamer. She then called she situation "creepy" and tried leaving again. The man insisted it was just them two and chased after her when she left. Later, Denino and Pepper exited the hotel and were apprehended by police officers. They were later released without charge. After the incident, some streamers considered leaving the platform with some vowing to leave.
Live death of a streamer On the night of 17–18 August 2025,
Jean Pormanove, whose real name was Raphaël Graven, died while streaming. Pormanove had been a target of repeated harassment, humiliation, and physical abuse live on stream by his two partners, identified as "Naruto" (real name Owen Cenazandotti) and Safine Hamadi. His streams were known for showing him regularly being subjected to mistreatment, with footage of the abuse broadcast to viewers for months. A judicial investigation into the cause of his death was launched by the
Nice public prosecutor's office. On 26 August, Chappaz announced that the government would sue Kick for alleged negligence. On the same day, the Paris prosecutor's office announced that an investigation would be opened into whether Kick had violated the EU
Digital Services Act and if it had knowingly broadcast "videos of deliberate attacks on personal integrity". Kick criticized these decisions as politicizing the death. On 27 January 2026, Cenazandotti and Hamadi were taken into custody on charges of assault, incitement to hatred, abuse of a vulnerable person, and recording and broadcasting violent images in connection with Pormanove's death.
Attack on Syko Stu On 24 August 2025, Raja Jackson, best known as the son of former martial artist
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, knocked independent wrestler
Syko Stu unconscious with a wrestling slam and then proceeded to hit his unconscious head over 20 times in what was considered to be an unprompted attack. Raja, who is also known to livestream on Kick and other services, was livestreaming on Kick throughout the entire ordeal, and his cameraman captured all footage (including both the incident that sparked the attack and the attack itself). == Gambling content ==