Over the weekend, one of the many reasons that streamers/content creators noted as to why they wouldn’t be attending TwitchCon happened, unfortunately. During a meet & greet, popular streamer and cosplayer Emiru, whose real name is Emily-Beth Schunk, was allegedly assaulted by a man who made his way to the 27-year old tried to allegedly kiss her forcibly. Following the incident, Emiru issued a statement and urged fellow creators to “seriously consider not attending” future TwitchCon events. She also confirmed that she is planning to press charges. Now, Twitch CEO Dan Casey has shared some comments regarding the incident.

So some freak just assaulted Emiru at @TwitchCon . This behavior is fucking disgusting. I’m amazed that she still came back to finish 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, 2025

Emiru talked about how shocked she was that the man was able to reach her without any issues and how disappointed she was in both Twitch’s support support of her immediately after the incident, and its statement that it quickly intervened and removed the assailant, which she called “a blatant lie.”

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

“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,” Emiru said.

Describing what happened, Emiru said:

“I see out of the corner of my eye, there’s a guy walking around the side of the Meet and Greet and he crosses in front of the Meet and Greet of the person to the left of me, which is a VTuber. So he’s able to walk up and in front of another streamer’s Meet and Greet, and then he walks up to me and he’s walking with a purpose, you know what I mean? And then he leans in like he’s going to tell me something, so maybe it’s like he’s TwitchCon staff or something, but I’m freaked out because he grabbed me. That’s not normal. And then he grabs my face, and he leans in, lips puckered, and tries to kiss me and I start screaming. You can’t hear it in the clip, but I’m f***ing screaming my head off.

“Twitch security is nowhere near me. I can see them, but they don’t do anything. My security jumps up and shoves the guy away from me, and he’s allowed to walk away and leave. No one in Twitch staff came up to me to see what was going on.”

Emiru alleged: “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.”

“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,” she added.

“The safety and security of all those attending TwitchCon is our highest priority,” Twitch said. “The behavior displayed by the individual involved in the incident yesterday involving a high-profile streamer was completely unacceptable and deeply upsetting.”

Talking with journalist Taylor Lorenz, Clancy said “the safety of our creators is our top priority. The challenge we face is a challenge in today’s society. It’s not limited to Twitch, it extends throughout our society.

“I do think that when you’re livestreaming, in many ways, since you control your community and you can ban people, you can make it so that those people that you don’t want engaging with you and participating with you, aren’t there,” he added. “When I use other short-form content and people say all sorts of stuff, well I can’t stop that. But when I livestream, they basically don’t bother me.

“Now, what happened yesterday, obviously, was something that we care deeply about securing this environment. We’re looking very closely at everything that happened there, and I care deeply about Emi. She’s a friend of mine, and so I want to see how we can support her. This is just something we have to keep working on. I think everyone identifies our tools in terms of trust and safety as the leaders in the industry about helping creators, but that means there’s always more work to be done, because that’s the world we live in now.”

One question that came up was why streamers should continue to trust Twitch to keep them safe at TwitchCon following the high-profile secruity breach, Clancy responded: “The reality is even as you do a lot in terms of security in today’s world, there are challenges that can present themselves, especially when someone is putting themselves out there, right?

“And so, we try to work very closely with each creator about what they want to do, and what works for them. I don’t want to get into any, you know, specifics or details, but part of that is working with creators. Right now, we’re definitely ramping it up to make sure creators know that we have the resources there to help them figure out what’s right for them.”