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[PlayStaytion]

I think this idea that any amount of advocacy for risk prevention and taking steps to ensure one's own safety amounts to 'victim blaming' is very dangerous and needs to stop.

You should be able to leave your doors unlocked at night without fear of anything bad happening; you cannot and in all but the safest areas it would be retarded of you to do so. The blame still rests with the perpetrator if something happens, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be taking steps to minimise the risk to yourself or encouraging others to take steps to minimise the risk to themselves.

For much of the audience these girls are not content creators; they are the content. If you are making a living selling flirting, pretend companionship, showing some tit etc. to desperately lonely men, it is going to inevitably be risky for you to be in close proximity with your audience. This risk has been understood for as long as there has been sex work, sex-adjacent work, 'companionship' work.

I suspect it is all but impossible to truly protect these women in an environment like this with an audience like this, without taking measures which would render the event pretty pointless. The sensible option is to recognise that sometimes meeting the audience is just not a good idea.

I'd say it depends on who she is, if she's respectful I'd say the pros outweigh the cons by a mile. Respectful women are still needed in the end otherwise men will stay invisible for eternity.

 

[MayauMiao]

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I think it's obvious to what type of individual Twitch caters to, especially if that someone also attends things like TwitchCon. At the same time in the best start-up philosophy all the streamers are just disposable resource, you can see how badly they fail if they try to move out of the platform. People might love them enough to harass them, but not enough to type a different address in the browser, not to mention Twitch has other functionalities like Amazon Prime integrations, subs, etc.

 

[xenosys]

He's so disconnected from reality that when this guy gets pulled up for the inevitable sexual assault charge that he's due, minor or not, he'll expect nothing but a 30-day ban from Twitch.

 

[RafterXL]

I don't see the point in debating streamers or who they attract as an audience. There are dozens of Cons, with much stranger people attending, that don't have these problems. The entire point of security is to negate these fucking wierdos from being able to do anything bad. This is 100% a Twitch issue, not a customer issue. It's not Emiru's fault that Twitch is incompetent, regardless of who her audience is. And, btw, this isn't an isolated incident at TwitchCon, it was just the first time they got it on tape. This shit happens so much more at TwitchCon than any other conference, many of which have the same exact people attending.

 

[EviLore]

 

[GymWolf]

Happened to Billie Eilish like a week ago at a concert, and the typical concert audience isn't mainly comprised of people who should be on a watchlist.

They can improve security for sure. Can they realistically improve it to a level where these women will be genuinely safe in physical proximity to their audience? Imo no, the relationship they have with their audience is too weird and the volume of potential threats is too high.

Disagree, you must be some umm... special individual to go to a billie eilish concert

 

[PlayStaytion]

People aren't kind by nature. History makes that painfully clear — cruelty, selfishness, and violence aren't exceptions, they're patterns.
The world some people imagine — one without malice, chaos, or broken minds — is just that: imagination. A fairytale. It's comforting, but it's not how reality operates.
The real world is messy, unpredictable, and often brutal. It doesn't reward good intentions or protect you just because you expect it to. Thinking it should is how people get hurt.
You can't change human nature with "expected behavior" or wishful thinking. The world doesn't bend to moral standards — it just is.
So the only real play is to move through it as best you can: stay alert, take care of yourself, and avoid situations where you're relying on others to behave "as they should." Reality doesn't care about expectations — only outcomes.

Now, apply that to streaming — especially IRL. When you put yourself out there, you're not just broadcasting your life, you're shaping a reality that your audience starts to live in too. And that comes with accountability. The content you put out, the tone you set, the boundaries you enforce — all of it creates the environment your viewers feed off.
If your stream attracts unstable or parasocial behavior, that's not just "the internet being weird." That's a reflection of the ecosystem you helped build. Streamers don't get to wash their hands of that. You can't farm attention, emotion, and intimacy for views and then act surprised when people blur the lines between reality and performance.
Real life — online or offline — is still life. It's messy, unpredictable, and doesn't owe you safety or fairness. No amount of "community guidelines" or "behavior expectations" will change human nature.

So take care of yourself. Understand that when you go live, you're not just filming — you're entering a social experiment with real consequences. Don't expect the audience, the world, or the platform to protect you. They won't. Reality doesn't care about expectations — only about the results of your actions.

Cause most humanity taught using protocols when they speak, how they speak and where they speak. That will just create monstrous behaviors from my view point cause you'll definitely read comments that shouldn't be said no matter what.

 

[rkofan87]

I really do hate this woman. She was wearing a mask while talking to Dan and Dan was not wearing a mask. Like, give me a break woman. COVID is over more or less.

 

[rkofan87]

Wait a minute what was she pregnant?I never heard that

 

[Hudo]

This is fucked up.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Wow that is one stupid ball pit design

How the hell weren't they sued? She lost her pregnancy

 

[ElFenomeno]

She walked until that platform , right? Or just landed there from somewhere up? How she didn't see the floor..fucking hell.

 

[Celcius]

Hard evidence of Dan Clancy partying that very night^^