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I heard about this a bit, the story is wild. A few details to expand on:

The offender was escorted away by private security hired by the streamer herself, not twitch security.

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 have yet to find the perp, but twitch supposedly banned him (meaning twitch knows who he is and haven't notified police).

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 and trotted off into the crowd. He wasn't "escorted" anywhere; he left the incident site on his own, and it's all on camera.

Twitch had dealt with stockers before, and their response was to ban the private security guards who fought off the creeps.

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.

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.

Yup. Twitch CEO was basically implying streamers knowingly take risks, basically saying it's their fault.

226 days ago
8 score
Reason: Original

I heard about this a bit, the story is wild. A few details to expand on:

The offender was escorted away by private security hired by the streamer herself, not twitch security.

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.

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 have yet to find the perp, but twitch supposedly banned him (meaning twitch knows who he is and haven't notified police).

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 and trotted off into the crowd. He wasn't "escorted" anywhere; he left the incident site on his own, and it's all on camera.

Twitch had dealt with stockers before, and their response was to ban the private security guards who fought off the creeps.

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.

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.

Yup. Twitch CEO was basically implying streamers knowingly take risks, basically saying it's their fault.

226 days ago
1 score