Twitch CEO Dan Clancy Responds to Emiru TwitchCon Assault, Says It's a 'Challenge in Today's Society,' and 'Not Limited to Twitch'

Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has addressed past weekend's nationalist battle of prolific streamer Emiru, saying helium is "looking precise intimately astatine everything that happened there" and insisting creator information is his "top priority."

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

Emiru 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."

Now, successful an interrogation with writer Taylor Lorenz, Clancy reflected connected information for creators and fans susceptible to parasocial relationships, saying: "The information of our creators is our apical priority. The situation we look is simply a situation successful today’s society. It’s not constricted to Twitch, it extends passim our society.

"I bash deliberation that erstwhile you’re livestreaming, successful galore ways, since you power your assemblage and you tin prohibition people, you tin marque it truthful that those radical that you don’t privation engaging with you and participating with you, aren’t there," helium added. "When I usage different short-form contented and radical accidental each sorts of stuff, good I can't halt that. But erstwhile I livestream, they fundamentally don't fuss me.

"Now, what happened yesterday, obviously, was thing that we attraction profoundly astir securing this environment. 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."

Twitch CEO Dan Clancy. Photo by Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Asked wherefore streamers should proceed to spot Twitch to support them harmless astatine TwitchCon aft specified a high-profile information breach, Clancy responded: "The world is adjacent arsenic you bash a batch successful presumption of information successful today's world, determination are challenges that tin contiguous themselves, particularly erstwhile idiosyncratic is putting themselves retired there, right?

"And so, we effort to enactment precise intimately with each creator astir what they privation to do, and what works for them. I don't privation to get into any, you know, specifics oregon details, but portion of that is moving with creators. Right now, we're decidedly ramping it up to marque definite creators cognize that we person the resources determination to assistance them fig retired what's close for them."

Emiru has not responded to Clancy's comments, but successful a livestream soon aft the assault, she described what had happened.

Emiru attends TwitchCon 2024 San Diego connected September 20, 2024. Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images.

"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."

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 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."

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