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Twitch has admitted it "failed" streamer Emiru aft she was assaulted astatine TwitchCon, some successful "allowing [the assault] to occur, and successful our effect following."
At TwitchCon 2025, Emiru was assaulted by a antheral who crossed aggregate barriers successful San Diego Convention Center to drawback the 27-year-old streamer and cosplayer's look and forcibly buss her during a conscionable and greet. Emiru, existent sanction Emily-Beth Schunk, has since urged chap creators to "seriously see not attending" aboriginal TwitchCon events, and confirmed she was pressing charges against the assailant. A viral video caught the interaction.
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
— BaconCrumbz 🥓 (@BaconCrumbz) October 18, 2025Emiru was shocked not lone that the antheral was capable to scope her without Twitch information intervening, but besides disappointed successful some Twitch's enactment of her instantly aft the incident, and its connection that it rapidly intervened and removed the assailant, which she called "a blatant lie."
In a follow-up interrogation conducted during TwitchCon, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy claimed "the situation we look is simply a situation successful today’s society. It’s not constricted to Twitch, it extends passim our society."
"Now, what happened yesterday, obviously, was thing that we attraction profoundly astir securing this environment," helium said. "We’re looking precise intimately astatine everything that happened there, and I attraction profoundly astir Emi. She’s a person of mine, and truthful I privation to spot however we tin enactment her. This is conscionable thing we person to support moving on. I deliberation everyone identifies our tools successful presumption of spot and information arsenic the leaders successful the manufacture astir helping creators, but that means there's ever much enactment to beryllium done, due to the fact that that's the satellite we unrecorded successful now."
Late connected Friday, Clancy issued different connection via the authoritative Twitch X/Twitter account, this clip acknowledging the institution "failed," some successful "allowing [the assault] to occur, and successful our effect following."
"First, I privation to beryllium upfront and instrumentality accountability for the information incidental that occurred during Emiru’s Meet and Greet," Clancy wrote. "It shouldn’t person happened and we instrumentality that precise seriously. We failed, some successful allowing it to occur, and successful our effect following. We mismanaged our communications astir the incident, and that includes the comments I made. I apologize to Emiru for each that took place."
Clancy said Twitch was present "doing a broad reappraisal of wide lawsuit information and security," and "examining everything, from however we bash [Meet and Greet] motion ups, to the layout, to accrued information controls."
However, successful a livestream implicit the weekend, Emiru claimed Twitch had not apologized straight to her, and alleged Twitch released its connection without consulting her.
"I deliberation everyone knows astir past week, the worldly that happened astatine TwitchCon," she said. "I did spot the Twitch tweet that I judge went retired [on Friday] [...] I was ne'er reached [or] apologized to privately. They enactment that retired without consulting me. I didn't cognize that they were going to bash that. So that was… yeah.
"I'm gladsome that they're trying to instrumentality immoderate level of accountability, but there's a batch of things that they didn't notation successful the tweet that I consciousness similar should person been mentioned," she added. "More stuff's been happening down the scenes. Everything I said connected my [first] watercourse was accurate, but for 1 happening — I was incorrect astir 1 thing. I was going implicit the tweet that Twitch initially enactment retired wherever they were like, 'Oh, yeah, this happening happened to a precocious illustration creator. You know, the constabulary were connected site. We're cooperating with instrumentality enforcement investigations.' What I was incorrect astir was they were not cooperating with instrumentality enforcement investigations."
Emiru added that connected the Monday aft the convention, she received a telephone from San Diego constabulary saying they couldn't proceed with charging the assailant due to the fact that Twitch wouldn't stock the sanction of the idiosyncratic they believed had assaulted her.
"I recovered retired that connected Monday, erstwhile I got a telephone telephone from the San Diego police. They fundamentally said, 'Hey, we can't truly bash thing close present due to the fact that [Twitch] seemingly cognize the sanction of the guy, but they're not giving it to america until a warrant goes through.' Which, if you cognize thing astir that stuff, it usually takes a while. Even if it's expedited, which it was for me, it inactive takes a batch of time.
"And they're like, 'Yeah, they're refusing to springiness america the name,' which arsenic acold arsenic I'm alert is simply a precise communal institution thing, wherever they don't privation to springiness retired names of imaginable radical progressive successful crimes due to the fact that past that idiosyncratic could possibly writer them for giving their sanction to police. That's what my lawyer said. But basically, Twitch was trying to marque definite that the feline that assaulted maine didn't writer them, which meant that the constabulary were not capable to enactment connected the lawsuit close away.
"I was precise frustrated due to the fact that I didn't cognize that connected Saturday. I would person said that if I knew," she added.
Emiru past elaborate however idiosyncratic had contacted her manager aft the incident, reporting that idiosyncratic matching the statement of the feline had travel into their spot of enactment and said thing on the lines of, "oh, I'm travelling to Texas and I caused rather a disturbance astatine TwitchCon."
"This idiosyncratic reached retired to my manager, reached retired to police, but due to the fact that each this worldly was delayed, this feline was capable to get truly acold distant from San Diego, allegedly, and this full clip my manager was begging Twitch, 'Please springiness america his name, we don't cognize who this idiosyncratic is,'" she explained. "'For each we know, helium lives astir wherever Emi and her roommates live, I can't assistance her if I don't cognize who this idiosyncratic is,' and they were refusing to bash it.
"But aft that tip, my manager demanded the info from Twitch truthful they did extremity up giving it to police, but not my manager arsenic acold arsenic I know. The investigation's inactive going connected but it's been a immense messiness due to the fact that of each the delays and refusal to enactment with the police. It's ongoing, I can't accidental excessively overmuch astir it, but evidently I ran this by my lawyer."
She thanked her manager for her enactment arsenic good arsenic covering for other security, stating: "Twitch did not connection thing similar that."
Emiru continued: "My anticipation is that there's immoderate benignant of nationalist solution truthful that radical who person seen this and cognize astir everything's that happened tin consciousness amended astir it. Like I said, I don't consciousness similar it's conscionable astir me. It could person been anyone that it happened to, a tiny streamer who's not arsenic fortunate to person the resources oregon the scope that I have. It's precise scary and conscionable very, precise frustrating.
"I don't privation to conscionable fto this beryllium a happening that they're hoping volition conscionable stroke implicit and gets swept nether the rug," she added. "I'm done with going to TwitchCon. Probably done wholly with normal streams. I consciousness similar it's conscionable time, you know, and I deliberation that's astir apt existent for a batch of streamers.
"It's conscionable crazy. I conscionable ne'er thought things similar this would hap oregon I'd ever beryllium doing a watercourse similar this."
Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images.
Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.
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