Apparently a high profile streamer was recently sexually assaulted on camera at twitch con.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWIXyUUqKz0
the streamer goes into detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLrxuSS33xg
EDIT: original stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_USuIpVAqAw
The offender was escorted away by private security hired by the streamer herself, not twitch security. They have yet to find the perp, but twitch supposedly banned him (meaning twitch knows who he is and haven't notified police).
Twitch had dealt with stalkers before, and their response was to ban the private security guards who fought off the creeps. They put out messaging claiming their security is top notch, then blame the victims for not moderating their streams, as if that does anything to stop real creeps at real meetups.
The incompetence and deflection, combined with the business model of twitch streams, leads me to believe twitch knows who their primary audience is: stalkers and molesters willing to fork over 5$ to get the streamer to say their name.
I heard about this a bit, the story is wild. A few details to expand on:
It was both.The creep was stopped by Emiru's - the streamer's - security, while Twitch security just watched (and apparently later laughed about it),but was then handed over to Twitch's people...who promptly let the creep just nope out and escape from them. He literally just slips them and runs off. He was in Twitch's hands for literally a couple seconds.Hilariously incompetent.EDIT: I rewatched the video, and realized I had misconstrued what was happening. Emi's security just basically pushes him off the stage after stopping him. He is not handed over to Twitch, he's just allowed to walk. /edit
I've just glad this guy was just a creep, and not someone who wanted to hurt her, or this would be a much different story. She could be dead right now. As I said, ridiculously incompetent.
They also seemed to be lying; they said he was escorted away, when that's not that case. Again, he
just shook them off immediately andtrotted off into the crowd. He wasn't "escorted" anywhere; he left the incident site on his own, and it's all on camera.They literally banned Emiru's previous security specifically, for protecting her in a previous incident. Emiru's security guard has a lifetime ban from Twitchcon, so she couldn't use her main guy.
Yup. Twitch CEO was basically implying streamers knowingly take risks, basically saying it's their fault.
Honestly he's kinda right, he's just retarded for saying it as if he doesn't also have responsibility for their safety. These camgirls know what kind of desperate losers they're taking money from, know the risks that come with that, and do it anyways. When your paycheck is based on how well you can create and maintain parasocial relationships - Especially when you're an attractive woman with a male audience - this sort of thing is inevitable and predictable. Hell, she went into this situation knowing her personal guard would not be allowed in, and only after signing the contract to appear did she raise a public fuss about it. Even when that didn't change anything, she still did her meet and greet.
He might as well have said "You hoes know I'm a bad pimp who'll let the Johns hurt you." Yeah, he is, and they should have known, and really should have taken that into consideration before they decided to work the corner.
It's both. They promised Twitchcon would have good security. They have Twitch security there, who didn't do their jobs. It's true everyone, including streamers, are responsible for their own safety, and should know the risks of all things in life, but when you go to an event with their own security, and your main security guy is banned...it's on Twitch to protect you. They didn't.
It's just like in society; if the government says you can't defend yourself, and their people will handle things, and something happens to you, it is the government that failed too.
Yeah, it is certainly a weird situation. Not familiar with the streamer, but from what I've seen the content certainly isn't for me. It's true she knows she's creating parasocial relationships, and weirdos will want to do things to her. It's still true that doesn't justify the assault either, though. Which I know isn't what you're saying.
Anyway, point is, sure, she knew the risks. Doesn't make it any less evil that Twitch - who definitely have a a duty to protect people at their own event, much less protect their streamers who are (sort of) employees - is trying to dodge all responsibility for what is, almost completely, their failure. They fucked up by not defending one of the most obvious points of attack, while banning the other people who should have been protecting her.
Yup, also true.
It really is sad, though. No matter how you feel about these people, some of the shit their fans do to them are awful to hear about. Plenty of people have been stalked, attacked, airtagged, and so much more. That still sucks.
Its the classic hooker problem. Where they get treated like literal disposable trash by so many people out in this world, but sympathy for them is so low (often justifiably so) that cops just straight say "no humans involved" when one of them is killed.
knowing the entertainment industry, there have definitely been killings by twitch stalkers as well.
It's worse when twitch actually requires them to do this meet n greet format. The girl in this incident is on camera a few hours prior claiming she had to do the meet n greet in exchange for a time slot for her show in the convention. And it ends with her meekly saying, "it'll be fine, I'm sure everyone will be nice."
Sad shit.
You think they just intuitively know even before they actually start doing it?
Remember the story about how some Japanese or Korean streamer was murdered because some creep found her location using the reflection in her eyeball? Paradoxical relationships are nuts.
I'm starting to suspect that Twitch has a sofa policy and Emiru didn't played along with it. It's one thing Twitch persecutes Vtubers, but it seems fleshtubers are just as much on the chopping block.
Probably.
Nah. Hanlon's Razor in full force here. While Twitch is absolutely malicious...they're also grossly incompetent. I don't think this was a targeted attack from Twitch, or a "LIHOP" or anything. They just didn't do their job securing the venue or that specific event, and Emiru just happened to be the person who got the short straw. It could have happened to anyone.
Which always cracks me up. They care more about animes than the shit their degenerate pornstars get up to on their platform. As the "joke" goes, it's probably because Twitch admins can't exploit and fuck a drawing.