Twitch streamers often deal with all sorts of people who come by their streams to watch and interact. While many have positive experiences with their viewers and fans, there are always going to be those who don’t respect the boundaries put up by those who create content.
LilyPichu is a popular Twitch streamer with a good following of viewers that enjoy her content. She has streamed a multitude of games ranging from League of Legends to Minecraft. Her popularity, however, has led to her facing difficulties with a stalker.
This isn’t the first time LilyPichu has dealt with harassment through Twitch with her also dealing with a slew of racist attacks back in January. Instead of a large group of people this time however, LilyPichu’s newest trouble is seemingly from a single person.
The identity of LilyPichu’s stalker is unknown, but he is adamant enough in his harassment toward the streamer that he has apparently created multiple accounts to evade being blocked from the channel. This stalker has been flooding both the streamer’s chat and email inbox with endless messages with Twitch not seeming to do anything about it at all. The streamer, however, has stated that: “It’s not a big deal because he’s writing the same s**t every time. At this point it’s boring.”
LilyPichu has talked about the situation on stream with her frustration over Twitch not IP banning the person responsible. In fact, Twitch representatives specifically stated that they cannot perform IP bans for the stalker. She did also explain how changing her streams to be sub-only chat would help fix the problem, but she doesn’t want to put her chat behind a paywall for the rest of her viewers.
Unfortunately, many women streaming on Twitch have been victims of harassment and stalking. Another popular streamer Valkyrae also recently had to deal with a stalking situation on Twitter with the perpetrator making hundreds of accounts to evade blocking. Some of these cases get very dangerous for some streamers such as with streamer JadeyAnh, who had her address discovered by her stalker on stream.
It is unknown if Twitch will take any action against LilyPichu’s stalker to prevent him from further contacting the streamer. Many are hoping for better action to be taken, not just for LilyPichu’s sake, but also for the sake of many other streamers that have been victims of targeted harassment on the streaming platform. Hopefully the situation will be resolved soon with the platform being made a safer place for all users afterward.
Source: Dexerto
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