VTubers have been left “heartbroken” after finding that Twitch staff trashed all of the gifts that fans brought for them to TwitchCon.
TwitchCon is Twitch’s annual celebration, allowing streamers and fans to interact in person in San Diego. However, this year’s event has been full of scary moments and drama, despite Twitch promising more security and armed law enforcement amid safety concerns from streamers.
Emiru was assaulted during her meet and greet as a man grabbed her by the face and tried to kiss her. Twitch claimed that the attacker was immediately detained, but the streamer disputed that.
VTubers like Ironmouse, who typically don’t have much presence at in-real-life events, also held their own meet and greets. As ever, fans brought gifts for them to show their appreciation for the creators. However, a lot of those gifts were thrown in the trash by Twitch staff. […]
That takes a ginormous amount of money, I think Hololive is the only company that could have enough to pull that off and they’re probably not interested, at least at the moment.
…BUT I think they have enough money to fund at least a different convention, they could focus on that. No need to bring more people to the mess that is (and probably will keep being) TwitchCon.