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Rollin Bishop

Twink Link is being freed: Nintendo apparently backtracks, says you are allowed to call yourself Twink Link as it works to unban a Switch 2 it "flagged by accident"

Link is in a barrel in The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker on Nintendo Switch 2.

A better world is possible: After earning a seemingly permanent Switch 2 console ban, the player forever now associated with the username "Twink Link" says they're being freed. As it turns out, it would seem the striking username had nothing to do with it at all.

Or at least, so it is claimed. In case you somehow missed the initial kerfuffle – and what a delight for you, as you now get to catch up – Reddit user and Nintendo Switch 2 owner Funaoe24 previously shared on Reddit that they'd earned a console ban preventing them "from accessing any Nintendo services at all on the system." The apparent reason? Their sister recently changed her username to Twink Link.

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