“To tell you honestly, I am a lot more hurt and upset by how Twitch handled it during and after the fact.”
Twitch seems like a shit company that caters to shitty people. So none of this is a surprise
Submitted 10 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
“To tell you honestly, I am a lot more hurt and upset by how Twitch handled it during and after the fact.”
Twitch seems like a shit company that caters to shitty people. So none of this is a surprise
On brand for an Amazon property.
I mean it’s mostly teen to 20s gamers, who are not known for their empathy or socialisation skills. So yeah…
I can imagine that this type of celebrity attracts the most unhinged obsessed fans with borderline personality disorder and/or other potentially dangerous and antisocial behaviors.
Certainly an environment that encourages a lot of people to just be nice to everyone in stream by default (except when someone is deemed acceptable to be yelled at and laughed at by everyone else for content…) and some people are lonely enough that they read a little too much into “HI [username]!”
That’s not an excuse to assault somebody
Hold people accountable
Who’s blaming the victim?
I’m blaming the one-way relationship celebrity culture. It seems like a breeding ground for people with serious social issues.
Pointing out who is likely to be a fan of hers isn’t “blaming the victim”. It’s being realistic about what she has to deal with. It shouldn’t happen, but bad people exist. Can’t ignore that.
You need to re-read that comment
attracts the most unhinged obsessed fans
Did we read the same message?
Let’s be honest here, Emiru is literally a bland do-nothing loser who cultivated her fan… I mean cult in a certain way to make it easier for her to fleece money off of desperate men.
No one’s denying it is assault. In fact a lot of people say incident was waaaaaay too outrageous to be not considered staged. (Remember the whole Amouranth’s fake abuse case where she framed her husband & was later revealed to be bullshit.)
At the end of the day, the person will go to jail, but this was a case of their toxic manipulative behaviour backfiring on them.
dont talk about their fans like that!
30 day ban from twitch events
It sounds like Twitch staff didn't handle this well and Emiru is calling them out on it. Even though they claim the individual was dealt with immediately, it sounds like it took Emiru pushing for it for anything to happen and that they pressured her to do in person meet and greets when she felt uncomfortable about them. Curious beyond that how could Twitch as an organization make things safer for streamers like her.
If by dealt with immediately they let him go and just gave him a 30 day ban initially, then yes. She had to talk to her manager who then talked to Twitch who then upped that ban to a permanent one. And I don’t even think the police has been involved yet.
Amazon wanted to brush this under the carpet…
I really miss the pre-amazon days of Twitch…
screams reckless endangerment
Holy based technology community keeping me up to date on streamer drama
This is the event Hasan skipped because he was worried about a Charlie Kirk-like incident against him, right?
If so, he may have made the right move it sounds like…
The guy who electrocuted his dog?
Are you serious or memeing?
The streamers think they’re the stars and partners with the streaming company…
But the company is always going to treat them as products with incredibly short shelf lives under even the best conditions.
Twitch doesn’t view them as real people, and knows even if they do quit or are harmed even killed, millions of barely adults would kill to take their place.
The problem is kick, that grows up with much better revenue split while Twitch is so incompetent that they may at some point lose the first mover advantage
As much as Twitch needs gutting, Kick is much worse.
Twitch has no comepetiton. As of 2024 they had 61% of total watch time across all live streaming platfomrs. It’s the kind of share that other industries would kill to have. None of the other streaming markets or even VOD platforms can achieve these numbers.
Take music streaming, Spotify only has ~32% of the market share even though they are kind of ubiquitous with music streaming at this point.
Not technology
Which posts fit here?
Anything that is at least tangentially connected to the technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy.
“Tangentially” doing some heavy lifting here.
That may be what it says in the sidebar, but this is objectively not technology
That’s just bad modding.
Technology definition is so broad that it could fit 90% of the general news into it.
I understand that everyone feels that technology should only apply to what they think technology is, but that’s why there is a section in the sidebar to specify what it means in this community.
As a mod obviously you're the one that gets to decide for this community. This is obviously not technology, but whatever, you get to do what you want here
Chozo@fedia.io 7 hours ago
Emiru did a short stream going into additional details about the incident, as well as some other fuck-ups by Twitch staff that weren't mentioned in this article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_USuIpVAqAw
tl;dw: Emiru calls out Twitch for lying about the situation in their official statements, expresses concern for what sort of response a smaller streamer would've gotten if they were attacked like this, and draws attention to Twitch's lack of security and professionalism. Twitch staffers originally laughed about the situation to Emiru's face, and didn't seem to care until the video went viral. They ran background checks on everybody who signed up for her meet-and-greet event, but the attendees were allowed to bring a plus-one with them, who did NOT have to get background checked. Twitch staff also allowed people to walk around even after their badges couldn't scan properly.
Also, because this isn't anywhere near the first time Emiru has been attacked in public, she points out that she's spent tens of thousands of dollars for her own private security, and wasn't even allowed to bring her preferred bodyguard with her because he's permanently banned from Twitch events due to restraining a stalker during a previous event.
Twitch fucked up big time here.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
What the fuck? They banned her bodyguard for protecting her and then asked her to come back without him? It’s like they wanted her to get assaulted.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
“Assault drama is great for algorithmic engagement” - Twitch prolly
Kefla@hexbear.net 5 hours ago
I feel crazy for even saying it, but yeah, that is exactly what it looks like to me. Like Twitch staff specifically wanted this to happen, as some sort of revenge against her for mistreating their fellow predators.
Underdone1157@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Exactly how I felt
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Banned her bodyguard :: chefs kiss ::
Great job Twitch, real A+ quality work! Hope the entire company goes bankrupt.
AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
This is fucked. Fuck twitch.