"No One Would Have Known": Emiru Exposes TwitchCon's Dangerous Security Gaps
- Sagar Mankar
- 4 days ago
- 3 min read
In a raw and emotional stream on Sunday evening, popular Twitch creator Emiru delivered a scathing account of her sexual assault at TwitchCon San Diego, revealing shocking security failures and announcing her permanent departure from the annual convention.
The Assault
The incident occurred approximately 30 minutes into Emiru's mandatory meet-and-greet on Saturday. A man bypassed security barriers, walking through another creator's area before approaching her with clear intent.
"He grabs me... and then he grabs my face and he leans in and lips puckered tries to kiss me and I start screaming," Emiru recounted. "My security jumps up and shoves a guy away from me... he's allowed to walk away and leave."
Most disturbingly, TwitchCon's hired security allegedly did nothing. "Twitch's security is like nowhere near me, nowhere to be found. I can see them, but they don't do anything," she stated. Her personal security guard intervened while TwitchCon staff remained absent.
"They Didn't Even See What Happened"
According to Emiru's manager and friends who witnessed the aftermath, TwitchCon security staff gathered after the incident, claiming ignorance. "The Twitch security like kind of got together after that and were like, 'Wait, what happened? Oh, I didn't even see what happened. Haha.' and just started talking about something else."
No TwitchCon representative approached Emiru immediately following the assault. "The woman who moved me away from the meet and greet was my personal manager. That was not Twitch staff," she emphasized, highlighting that she had to apologize to attendees herself while official staff remained absent.
A Viral Clip Changes Everything
Emiru credits an attendee who filmed and posted the incident for forcing accountability. "Thank god someone was filming because otherwise I don't think Twitch would have sent me a thing," she said bluntly. "I don't think that Twitch would have put out an official statement if that clip wasn't posted and going viral."
Even after the video circulated widely, other creators with similar meet-and-greet events weren't warned. "As far as I know, the other people who had meet and greets today were not reached out to to ask if they wanted extra security," Emiru revealed.
"That is a blatant lie."
Twitch later issued a statement to Gaming Amigos claiming the assailant was “immediately caught and detained,” but Emiru strongly disputed that version of events. “I’m sorry but that is a blatant lie,” she wrote on X.
The platform initially banned the assailant for just 30 days before her manager advocated for an indefinite ban. It took two hours for Twitch to approach her manager about the incident, by which time her team had already contacted police and legal counsel independently.
"Key Twitch representatives last night were out partying," Emiru stated, citing multiple witnesses. Meanwhile, Amazon flew in their "global head of something to redesign the whole process and security," raising obvious questions. "Why wasn't there someone like that here already?"
The Financial Reality
Emiru revealed she spent over $10,000 on personal security just to attend TwitchCon safely, a luxury most creators cannot afford. "Some people who stream on Twitch don't even make $10,000 in a year. What the fuck are they supposed to do?"
"If you're a small streamer and you don't have those resources or someone in your line's not filming, what the f*ck do you do? No one would have known."
"This is my final TwitchCon."
After a decade on the platform and multiple TwitchCons, Emiru announced her decision: "This is my final TwitchCon. This show will be my final performance."
"I genuinely think there have been other people who have been sexually assaulted, groped, like who f*cking knows worse at these conventions. And just nobody knows."
"You have to stand up for yourself, for other people, because if you don’t, there’s a lot of people who are just going to take the easy lazy route because it doesn’t affect them, so they don’t care," she said on X, seeing Twitch's lazy response.
Despite everything, Emiru performed her scheduled TwitchCon show that evening out of respect for production staff and cosplayers who had prepared. She is pressing criminal charges against her assailant and considering further legal action.
"Once you break the trust for something like this, you're never getting it back," she concluded. "I'm done."
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