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 to kiss me. Fortunately he wasn't able to, but a lot of people have pointed out it could have been a lot worse!
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.
Like I said, I don't understand how he was allowed to make it to me in the first place. The security in the clip who reacts is my own security (it's true my favorite and usual security guard was banned for holding a stalkers arm to bring him to police, at a past Twitchcon)
However, there were at least 3 or 4 other Twitchcon security staff in the area who did not react and let the guy walk away, as you can see in the clip since they don't even appear in the frame LOL
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. None of the Twitchcon staff came to ask what happened or if I was okay.
My friend who was present told me 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.
So if 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 LOL
In Twitch's statement they said that the guy was immediately caught and detained, I'm sorry but that is a blatant lie. 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.
I have a lot more I want to say but I will say it on stream later today instead of writing a book on here.
Thank you guys again, sorry you all had to see that. This is definitely my last Twitchcon, and it saddens me to say as a 10 year off and on attendee of Twitchcon, I think other creators should seriously consider not attending in the future. I did not feel cared for or protected, even bringing my own security and staff. I can't imagine how creators without those options would feel.
Stay safe y'all, everything is going to be okay
Woke up and saw the Bwipo clip -> Saw the FlyQuest tweet -> Read reddit/twitter/etc. His comment is super gross and ignorant and I'm even confused on how he can make it (there are woman pro players in games already and have been historically lol. Not to mention in other high end stress jobs like what). I would expect/anticipate that Riot will do something now as well.
Actually such a disbelief moment in regards to level of stupidity/ignorance the clip is. It's the type of clip genuinely malicious/misogynistic/hateful ppl would try to weaponize against female players, instead of trying to make spaces more inclusive for them.
I fully believe the reason why for example there aren't more female pros has nothing to do with biology, but rather the environments within the space don't create proper places for the talents to shine through and get real opportunities.
In league specifically there are literal female challenger players right now in every region, it's dishonest to say none of them could be pro lol.
Also a lot of pro players have mental illnesses pertaining to anxiety/depression/etc which are CONSTANT (not once a month like a period) thing, so it's also even more crazy to claim a period would somehow ever be worse.
I used to talk every day to a very depressed English girl
I told her about this crazy YouTube idea I had and she loved it
One day she didn’t come back online
She had already had attempts before
I would still message her when I had good news
I messaged her when my YouTube hit 1k, 3k & 10k subs
To this day I still send messages to her telling her how I’m doing
I like to think she is still cheering me on
@Spideraxe30 wait so. if i have alevel lead and die, not only do i give extra xp away, but also extra gold? i dont know if this is too much or not though
The better team won, there is nothing more to it.
The quality of mistakes we do is puzzling sometimes and we will have to try to find the root cause.
We didn't go into winter with the thought of it defining our season, so I hope that we can continue to count on your support.
Furthermore I doubt Rekkles has had any of the emotional help or aid in trying to learn more about himself and other things that go on with his emotions. And if he did in fact have that kind of aid, I imagine a lot of problems in the past he had to learn by trial and error, would likely not ever repeat themselves and/or he'd be able to maybe even reflect on them differently.
I don't know, everything just feels bad and I feel very bad watching and hearing so many of the things being said, because again, I feel like so many things almost just don't matter when you entertain that a lot of the people dealing with him also didn't know they were dealing with an autistic person, thus altering how they should actually engage with and receive the situations.
This is actually crazy, I can't even undestand it. So many things in the video are easily explainable by understanding and acknowledging that a person with autism is not going to react in a neurotypcal way to a lot of situations. Then to go further and not also acknowledge dealing with/growing up as an undiagnosed autist all your life and trying to emotionally regulate so many extremely (especially at the stardom rekkles is) stressful situations and essentially being an alien in your own body. This isn't making an excuse for anything, but rather it adds so much necessary/needed context that helps you understand and also essentially forgive things that happened. It would be cruel and unusual to suggest otherwise.
So many things actually said about Rekkles in the video is WAY more of a redflag by the person saying it, than what is being said that he's done (I'm about 40mins in).
I'm so confused on how we can simultaneously be aware of such a diagnosis and everything that surrounds that, but then not entertain it at all for either the creation of the video or the publication of it.
I'm getting so upset watching this video, why acknowledge someone has autism, say it won't be addressed, but then address so many things which are obviously directly linked to having it??? Not only that but so many things are also just normal/very common things that happen
absolute bots. mkay i guess i have more chances of not having my video removed if I pull out my titties and put emojis on them. I'm sure @TeamYouTube will be very happy about that. I mean...that's their own rules, right? lol yall are a joke