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Emiru calls out Twitch’s security after being assaulted at TwitchCon 2025 - Dexerto (Cw:Attempted SA) (www.dexerto.com)
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Keep in mind that Emiru is the largest female content creator on twitch and this still happened.

Edit: The head of security for Amazon and the Head of risk for Twitch initally told her manager that the creep was banned "from the platform for 30 days" and it took them an hour to make it a perma. catgirl-huh

Burn Amazon it-was-me lord-bezos-amused

Full Article part 1

The streamer also criticized on-site security, alleging that “at least 3 or 4 other TwitchCon security staff in the area did not react and let the guy walk away,” and that staff behind the booth “were joking about how they didn’t even see what happened.”

Emiru confirmed she plans to discuss the event further on stream, and said this will be her final TwitchCon appearance. “I think other creators should seriously consider not attending in the future,” she said. “I did not feel cared for or protected, even bringing my own security and staff.”

You can read her full statement below:

spoiler Emiru

hello everyone, I am okay and thank you for all of the kind messages, sorry I cannot respond to them all 🩷

Yesterday, the man who assaulted me was allowed to cross multiple barriers at twitchcon and even in front of another creators meet and greet to grab me and my face and try to kiss me. Fortunately he wasn't able to, but a lot of people have pointed out it could have been a lot worse!

I'm obviously shaken up by what happened and it's not the first time I've dealt with something like this, but to tell you honestly, I am a lot more hurt and upset by how Twitch handled it during and after the fact.

Like I said, I don't understand how he was allowed to make it to me in the first place. The security in the clip who reacts is my own security (it's true my favorite and usual security guard was banned for holding a stalkers arm to bring him to police, at a past Twitchcon)

However, there were at least 3 or 4 other Twitchcon security staff in the area who did not react and let the guy walk away, as you can see in the clip since they don't even appear in the frame LOL

The woman who is walking me away is my own personal manager, and behind the booth, the only two people who were checking on me and comforting me were her and my friend. None of the Twitchcon staff came to ask what happened or if I was okay.

My friend who was present told me Twitch security were also behind the booth afterwards joking about how they didn't even see what happened and immediately laughing and moving on to talking about something else.

So if no one was checking if I was okay or if I needed anything and they let the guy run away initially, I have no idea what anyone hired to keep the event safe was doing LOL

In Twitch's statement they said that the guy was immediately caught and detained, I'm sorry but that is a blatant lie. He was allowed to walk away from my meet and greet and I didn't hear he was caught until hours after he attacked me, and it felt like this only happened because of my manager pressing for it, not because Twitchcon staff present thought it was a big deal.

I have a lot more I want to say but I will say it on stream later today instead of writing a book on here.

Thank you guys again, sorry you all had to see that. This is definitely my last Twitchcon, and it saddens me to say as a 10 year off and on attendee of Twitchcon, I think other creators should seriously consider not attending in the future. I did not feel cared for or protected, even bringing my own security and staff. I can't imagine how creators without those options would feel.

Stay safe y'all, everything is going to be okay :::

Full article part 2Twitch responds following TwitchCon incident

Twitch further stated that law enforcement and on-site security responded to the incident, with the individual being “immediately blocked” from the venue as well as being “banned indefinitely from Twitch.” twitch statement

The platform added that it has increased security at the meet and greet check-in area, introduced more personnel around participating streamers, and suspended plus-one access for the rest of the weekend.

The platform reiterated its “zero tolerance for harassment or acts that inhibit the safety and security of our community.”

It’s not the first time Emiru has faced harassment at public events. Earlier this year, she and fellow streamers Valkyrae and Cinna were targeted by a stalker during a Santa Monica appearance. This ordeal raised similar concerns about the safety of creators at fan conventions.

Likewise, other streamers, including Asmongold, have previously warned women not to attend TwitchCon after Valkyrae and QTCinderella dropped out of the event over safety concerns.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 36 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Likewise, other streamers, including Asmongold, have previously warned women not to attend TwitchCon after Valkyrae and QTCinderella dropped out of the event over safety concerns.

Damn.

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 31 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

You know it's bad when even the great unclean one is advising against it.

[–] MarxusMaximus@hexbear.net 22 points 4 hours ago

"Women shouldn't go to these events because my fans will be there and my fans are fucking monsters."

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 20 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Surely he wants them to go and be SA'd this is pre-emptive victim blaming not a sincere warning

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 16 points 6 hours ago

Exactly this

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 40 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Hey I have personal experience with this, having directly worked at other conventions managing streamers and holding official twitch parties.

There's fuck all security really. You have entrance security security that do bag checks to reduce theft in the venue (mostly of venue equipment or stuff people bring to LAN) and you have security that you can call if an incident occurs in a reactive way, but active security for something like people crossing a barrier like this? Not really. You only really see that kind of thing at sports matches with cops lining the football pitch looking at the crowd as a deterrence to pitch invaders or at music events with security lining the front of the stage to prevent a stage invasion.

I never personally saw any problems with this over the course of 20 to 25 events I worked. But perhaps some of the women might need to have more direct protection that doesn't leave their side similar to idols. The issue you have is if you have 30 streamers at an event your costs for this are very very high given that they want to roam the venue when they're not on stage so you basically need permanent 24 hour multi day security glued to each of them individually. Most of these events can't afford it, half of them run on volunteer work forces numbering 100+ people that are completely unpaid.

Anyway this is pretty rare and unusual. I never saw problems with attendees towards streamers personally, what I did see however were problems with streamers towards streamers, and streamers towards attendees. We actually had staff stalk some of them 24/7 (these are multi day events where people sleep at the convention centers) because they can't be trusted and having a streamer SA incident at your event is not the kind of press you want.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 32 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The issue you have is if you have 30 streamers at an event your costs for this are very very high given that they want to roam the venue when they're not on stage so you basically need permanent 24 hour multi day security glued to each of them individually. Most of these events can't afford it, half of them run on volunteer work forces numbering 100+ people that are completely unpaid.

i thought twitch con was official and sponsored by the company?

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 10 hours ago

Bezos needs a new sex dungeon baby!

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 26 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

But perhaps some of the women might need to have more direct protection that doesn't leave their side similar to idols

In Emiru's statement above she says that her preferred* security was barred from the event due to a previous incident where the security restrained the arm of a stalker at a previous twitchcon

*She says preferred does that not mean personal security here? Does it instead mean a prior twitchcon security who later got banned?

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 18 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Ahh well that's on Twitch. The events I worked on we never even considered disallowing streamers from having their own security. Those weren't Twitchcon though, they were different conventions where a Twitch party would be a side thing mostly for streamers to get drunk in private with Twitch staff and each other (hence the need to have our own team shadow the unsafe dudes).

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 8 points 3 hours ago

From what I can tell, they do allow the streamers to have private security but the specific individual she prefers to have working security has been banned from the event due to a previous event where someone behaved inappropriately towards her and the guard detained the guy until the cops arrive. So that's an extremely small plus for letting people have their own security and a massive minus for banning that one guard for doing their job.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 15 points 11 hours ago

from her video on the matter, it seems to clarify that her preferred security was her own personal security, not someone provided by the event.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

I think the statement is just including that elaboration as an aside: the person there is her personally hired guard, but not the usual one she hires (I think she's assuming fans might recognize the usual one on sight and so would think the unfamiliar guard wasn't hired by her? Or they might have heard her security was banned and not have realized she hired someone else?).

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 19 points 11 hours ago

The preferred guard, the one that she likes and uses a lot for stuff like this, was banned from twitchcon last year for detaining a creep while waiting on the con guards (or the cops not sure) to arrive

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 11 points 11 hours ago

Ty for clarification

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 36 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

If this is how Twitch treats their big non-political streamers, then I'd hate to see what they'll do when congress pressures them to ban their leftist streamers

That company has fostered and allowed an entire culture of cyber (and now irl) harassment to flourish, to the point even the largest female streamers aren't safe

It's the fact he was just allowed to calmly stroll right out the front door without even a word....and so many people don't care, because "it's just streamers"

[–] CancelledKirk@hexbear.net 2 points 4 hours ago

Twitch sees all streamers as replaceable clowns. It doesn't matter if they get harassed, stalked, killed, anything.

This is the profit drive of capitalism. GET USED TO IT!!!! We Are all as replaceable as the 13 year old Bangladeshi girl who gets her hair caught in the sewing machines for fast fashion and gets stabbed to death by the needles before someone can turn the machine off.

YOU MEAN NOTHING! I MEAN NOTHING! WE ALL MEAN NOTHING!

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 18 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Someone is going to get stabbed one of these days. And I'm going to make a bold prediction and say that a certain streamer who has attracted a deranged hatebase over alleged mistreatment of his pet dog is on the very top of that list.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 14 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago) (1 children)

Nah, the very top of the list are all women.

Edit: I can't think of a case where a streamer was physically assaulted by a hater. It's always crazed fans and the victims are always women. Haters will dox you and send you death threats. In the worst cases they might SWAT you or come to your house and yell obscenities at you. But the ones who will actually try to physically hurt you are always insane fans.

[–] CancelledKirk@hexbear.net 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Getting rich by being famous has always had its risks.

[–] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 8 points 3 hours ago

You seem to really hate rich women (specifically women, I don't detect the same hatred for rich men in your comments in this thread), in a way that's ringing my "this person might have some unexamined misogynist brainworms" alarm. Do you? Can you please try to give yourself a brainworm check on this topic? Brainworms are sneaky little buggers, and it's always worthwhile to find and excise them.

[–] RandallThymes@hexbear.net 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Already happened, a Japanese streamer was stabbed to death while live earlier this year.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

not to take away from the tragedy but wasn't that a loan shark situation rather than a stalker/hater situation? i could be confusing this with the trucker who killed his boss over debts.

[–] RandallThymes@hexbear.net 4 points 4 hours ago

I think that was the Korean streamer murdered off-stream.

[–] corvidenjoyer@hexbear.net 23 points 12 hours ago

Emiru's statement

hello everyone, I am okay and thank you for all of the kind messages, sorry I cannot respond to them all 🩷

Yesterday, the man who assaulted me was allowed to cross multiple barriers at twitchcon and even in front of another creators meet and greet to grab me and my face and try to kiss me. Fortunately he wasn't able to, but a lot of people have pointed out it could have been a lot worse!

I'm obviously shaken up by what happened and it's not the first time I've dealt with something like this, but to tell you honestly, I am a lot more hurt and upset by how Twitch handled it during and after the fact.

Like I said, I don't understand how he was allowed to make it to me in the first place. The security in the clip who reacts is my own security (it's true my favorite and usual security guard was banned for holding a stalkers arm to bring him to police, at a past Twitchcon)

However, there were at least 3 or 4 other Twitchcon security staff in the area who did not react and let the guy walk away, as you can see in the clip since they don't even appear in the frame LOL

The woman who is walking me away is my own personal manager, and behind the booth, the only two people who were checking on me and comforting me were her and my friend. None of the Twitchcon staff came to ask what happened or if I was okay.

My friend who was present told me Twitch security were also behind the booth afterwards joking about how they didn't even see what happened and immediately laughing and moving on to talking about something else.

So if no one was checking if I was okay or if I needed anything and they let the guy run away initially, I have no idea what anyone hired to keep the event safe was doing LOL

In Twitch's statement they said that the guy was immediately caught and detained, I'm sorry but that is a blatant lie. He was allowed to walk away from my meet and greet and I didn't hear he was caught until hours after he attacked me, and it felt like this only happened because of my manager pressing for it, not because Twitchcon staff present thought it was a big deal.

I have a lot more I want to say but I will say it on stream later today instead of writing a book on here.

Thank you guys again, sorry you all had to see that. This is definitely my last Twitchcon, and it saddens me to say as a 10 year off and on attendee of Twitchcon, I think other creators should seriously consider not attending in the future. I did not feel cared for or protected, even bringing my own security and staff. I can't imagine how creators without those options would feel.

Stay safe y'all, everything is going to be okay.

https://x.com/emiru/status/1979602519967060414