Streamer Emiru Issues Statement Following TwitchCon Assault, Confirms She Is Pressing Charges

Prolific streamer Emiru has urged chap creators to "seriously see not attending" aboriginal TwitchCon events aft she was publically assaulted.

Posting connected X/Twitter, Emiru, existent sanction Emily-Beth Schunk, explained however a antheral crossed aggregate barriers astatine TwitchCon successful San Diego Convention Center successful an effort to drawback her look and forcibly buss her during a conscionable and greet.

In a livestream soon aft the assault, the 27-year-old streamer and cosplayer described what had happened.

"I spot retired of the country of my eye, there's a feline walking astir the broadside of the Meet and Greet and helium crosses successful beforehand of the Meet and Greet of the idiosyncratic to the near of me, which is simply a VTuber. So he's capable to locomotion up and successful beforehand of different streamer's Meet and Greet, and past helium walks up to maine and he's walking with a purpose, you cognize what I mean? And past helium leans successful similar he's going to archer maine something, truthful possibly it's similar he's TwitchCon unit oregon something, but I'm freaked retired due to the fact that helium grabbed me. That's not normal. And past helium grabs my face, and helium leans in, lips puckered, and tries to buss maine and I commencement screaming. You can't perceive it successful the clip, but I'm f***ing screaming my caput off.

"Twitch information is obscurity adjacent me. I tin spot them, but they don't bash anything. My information jumps up and shoves the feline distant from me, and he's allowed to locomotion distant and leave. No 1 successful Twitch unit came up to maine to spot what was going on."

A shocking video, below, caught the enactment wherever the antheral walks implicit to Emiru and grabs her earlier her bodyguard shoves him back. The antheral is past seen walking away, unescorted. There is nary motion of lawsuit security, though Emiru alleged: "Twitch information were besides down the booth afterwards, joking astir however they didn't adjacent spot what happened and instantly laughing and moving connected to talking astir thing else."

"No 1 was checking if I was good oregon if I needed thing and they fto the feline tally distant initially, I person nary thought what anyone hired to support the lawsuit harmless was doing," she added.

So immoderate freak conscionable assaulted Emiru astatine @TwitchCon . This behaviour is fucking disgusting. I’m amazed that she inactive came backmost to decorativeness the Meet and Greet line, honestly she deserves the utmost of respect. THIS HAS TO STOP!!!@EmiruUpdatess @emiru pic.twitter.com/pyO2QHQ9Pv

Though Emiru told her followers that she was "okay" aft the incident, fans and attendees alike are acrophobic astir however adjacent the assailant was capable to get earlier idiosyncratic intervened.

Twitch besides responded with a statement, writing: "The information and information of each those attending TwitchCon is our highest priority. The behaviour displayed by the idiosyncratic progressive successful the incidental yesterday involving a high-profile streamer was wholly unacceptable and profoundly upsetting."

The streaming elephantine besides said that "in enactment with existing TwitchCon information protocols, instrumentality enforcement and lawsuit information were connected tract and responded to the incident. We instantly blocked this idiosyncratic from returning to the TwitchCon premises, and they are banned indefinitely from Twitch, some online and in-person events. We are coordinating with the impacted creator’s squad and, per our modular protocols, proceed to cooperate with immoderate instrumentality enforcement investigations."

Emiru astatine TwitchCon 2024. Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images.

Emiru, however, disagreed with Twitch's summary, calling the company's words "a blatant lie" and alleging the assailant was "allowed to locomotion distant from my conscionable and greet, and I didn't perceive helium was caught until hours aft helium attacked me."

"It felt similar this lone happened due to the fact that of my manager pressing for it, not due to the fact that Twitchcon unit contiguous thought it was a large deal," she added.

"This is decidedly my past Twitchcon, and it saddens maine to accidental arsenic a 10-year off-and-on attendee of TwitchCon, I deliberation different creators should earnestly see not attending successful the future," her connection concluded. "I did not consciousness cared for oregon protected, adjacent bringing my ain information and staff. I can't ideate however creators without those options would feel."

"It's not conscionable astir me. Like, this could person happened to anyone," she added successful the livestream. "Honestly, for each we know, this could person already happened to someone, a tiny streamer, and idiosyncratic conscionable wasn't filming it.

"I don't deliberation Twitch would person enactment retired an authoritative connection if that clip wasn't posted and going viral. And adjacent aft the information that that clip was posted and going viral, arsenic acold arsenic I know, the different radical who had Meet and Greets contiguous were not reached retired to inquire if they wanted other security, oregon if they adjacent wanted to cancel their Meet and Greet."

Twitch insisted that soon thereafter it "increased information astatine the Meet & Greet attendee check-in constituent and volition person further information unit surrounding participating streamers," and removed +1s for a Meet & Greet for the remainder of the event.

Twitch added: "It’s truly important to america that our creators bask their acquisition astatine TwitchCon and consciousness safe. We regret that their acquisition was disrupted by this horrible incident." It hasn't mentioned the incidental since, oregon responded straight to Emiru.

Dozens of streamers and contented creators flocked to Emiru's mentions, horrified astatine some what happened and dismayed astir Twitch's "unprofessionalism."

Feeling arsenic though she "could person virtually been stabbed" and revealing the "global caput of Amazon" flew retired to TwitchCon to talk to her manager and security, Emiru has present confirmed she is pressing charges against the assailant, adding: "As for thing else, I don't cognize yet, due to the fact that I've been having my manager grip each of those broadside conversations. So I person nary idea, but this is conscionable not okay."

Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images.

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