Weeks ago, female streamers Valkyrae and QTCinderella said they were worried about going to TwitchCon this year. They cited specific concerns about lax security at the event (especially after the problems with Kick streamers in 2024) and pointed to the increasing number of violent and harassing incidents targeting women who make digital content.
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy responded to their comments in nonspecific fashion, saying his Amazon-owned company takes security “extremely seriously,” and that “[e]very year, we build on successful approaches to TwitchCon safety and security.” Twitch issued similarly noncommittal responses after the Kick streamer invasion, and after the safety issue during TwitchCon 2022 where streamer Adriana Chechik was gravely injured jumping into a ball pit that–unbeknownst to her–had a concrete floor.
After Clancy’s statement, we here at Tubefilter reached out to Twitch, asking it to explain exactly what it planned to do to keep streamers safe. It didn’t respond.
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Then, on the first day of TwitchCon 2025, streamer Emiru was assaulted during a meet-and-greet.
Someone assaulted Emiru at her Meet & Greet at Twitchcon.
Security pushes the perpetrator away, but then turns back and allows the man to walk away. (???)
Emiru comes back shortly after to continue meeting fans.
— Zach Bussey 🍁 (@zachbussey.tos.gg) October 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
In a video of the incident, you can see a broad, tall man simply walk up to her, past lines of people, another content creator, safety barriers, and security staff, and wrap his arms around her, going for a kiss. It’s only after Emiru physically resists and people in line gasp that the personal securityperson she hired steps in, shoving the man away. He then walks off, unimpeded by con staff.
Emiru, who was also accosted on the street earlier this year by a man who got down on one knee and proposed to her, then threatened to kill her when she refused, addressed the incident on X. She said the man was “allowed to cross multiple barriers” and that TwitchCon security staff “did not react and let the guy walk away.”
It’s also worth noting the personal security guard who pushed the man away is not Emiru’s preferred bodyguard. Her preferred bodyguard is permabanned from TwitchCon because, at a previous event, he physically stopped a man who was stalking Emiru around the convention. Emiru explained that he didn’t push, punch, or hurt the stalker in any way, just held him in place, but because he physically engaged, he is no longer allowed to protect her at TwitchCon events.
Twitch issued its own statement, saying the man’s behavior was “completely unacceptable and deeply upsetting,” and that it had “immediately blocked this individual from returning to the TwitchCon premises, and they are banned indefinitely from Twitch, both online and in-person events.”
“We are coordinating with the impacted creator’s team and, per our standard protocols, continue to cooperate with any law enforcement investigations,” it added, noting that it had also “increased security at the Meet & Greet attendee check-in point and will have additional security personnel surrounding participating streamers.”
But Emiru disputes Twitch’s version of events, calling the statement “a blatant lie.” She said that in contrast to Twitch’s claims, the man who assaulted her was not immediately removed, and TwitchCon staff did not come to check on her or coordinate with her team.
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…
— emi ⭐️ (@emiru) October 18, 2025
“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,” she wrote. “None of the Twitchcon staff came to ask what happened or if I was okay.”
She also alleged TwitchCon security staffers were laughing and joking about the incident. As for the man being caught and evicted from the event, “In Twitch’s statement they said that the guy was immediately caught and detained, I’m sorry but that is a blatant lie,” Emiru said. “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.”
She concluded her post with the unsurprising announcement that this will be her final TwitchCon appearance. While the rest of TwitchCon 2025 appeared to be fairly incident-free, this one assault was enough that changes should happen for the future. Once again, we reached out to Twitch asking what changes will be made to ensure streamers are safe at its events, and received no response.
In the absence of action from Twitch, other streamers have rallied to support Emiru. Many of them responded directly to Twitch, telling it to do better.
“If the person who assaulted Emiru had any kind of weapon this entire statement would be how sorry you are that someone passed away at your convention,” VTuber Kharrma Sierra told it. “That is how dangerously close to the sun this has flown. This platform is failing its girl creators.”
