Two well-known German FIFA streamers have reported on YouTube about a negative experience at the European Championships. While filming a European Championship game, they were physically and verbally attacked by a fan.
Which streamers are we talking about? The streamers Simon Bechtold and Timo Schulz are better known to most FIFA fans under the name Tisi Schubech. For many years, the two friends have been providing their community with content related to the football simulation.
On their second channel, they also like to show insights into their private lives. This includes visits to the stadium for football matches.
At the European Championship match between Italy and Spain, which the two covered with the camera for their fans, an Italian fan was not at all enthusiastic about their work. A few days later, they reported on the events on YouTube:
During European Championship game: Streamers should put away cameras
How did they clash with the fan? While filming their stadium vlog from the Arena in Schalke, they were approached and then insulted by an Italian fan.
The Italian fan first grabbed the camera of one of the two YouTubers. The other streamer then confronted the fan about his aggressive behavior. The Italian fan is said to have then said in extremely derogatory words that the streamers should put their cameras away.
The argument between fan and streamer is said to have gone so far that they found themselves face to face.
How do the YouTubers view the incident in retrospect? The YouTubers know how to classify the insults from fans. Of course, it can always happen that people don’t want to appear in their recordings.
However, both have the policy of announcing to the people around them that they will be filming from time to time during the game. They also obtain the consent of the people in their immediate vicinity.
They emphasize that people are always welcome to come and talk to them if they have a problem with the recordings. Everyone is allowed to have their own opinion on the matter.
Meanwhile, the two have little understanding for the Italy fan. While they can understand that he was frustrated after the 0-1 defeat, the fan himself was constantly taking pictures with his mobile phone during the game.
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In the live comments, YouTubers also have to deal with their own fans.
Both of them dismiss this accusation as “stupid”, because they don’t film the whole time and comment on the game. On the contrary, they try to give their fans a closer look at the stadium experience, with everything that happens before and after the game. In this way, they want to get people excited about football.
For the two YouTubers, the whole debate about “influencers out of the European Championship stadiums” attracts too many people who hate for no reason and “just step on things”.
They relate their personal incident to the problem of the growing hatred against influencers during this European Championship. Tisi Schubech’s guys are by no means the only ones to have unpleasant experiences during the European Championship…
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Hate on the internet against EM influencers is increasing
Negative comments are increasing among the many videos of influencers who are filming their visits to the stadium during the European Championship. Many fans are frustrated that the opinion makers are taking seats away from spectators who are genuinely interested in football.
Influencer Sashka offers a compact overview of the whole issue in her new YouTube video.
According to Sashka, where does the hate against influencers come from? In their view, the fundamental problem is not so much that influencers get tickets for a game, but rather how they celebrate their visit to the stadium. The focus is not on the game itself, but only on themselves, in order to generate even more attention in the form of likes and clicks in the context of the European Championship.
In addition, some influencers would enter into partnerships with companies that they consider questionable just to get into the stadium.
However, according to Sashka, one must take into account that the spaces for influencers are mostly rented by the advertising partners anyway, and therefore would not be usable for normal fans.
You also have to be careful not to tar all influencers with the same brush. Of course, there are also people among them who are simply interested in football or who want to support their country in social situations without being interested in their own profit.
It seems that the topic could stay with us for a while, at least during the European Championships. Another person who has caught our attention several times in the context of the European Championships is the YouTuber Marvin Wildhage. He attracted attention even before the start of the European Championships: A YouTuber makes fun of the DFB team, a lawyer sees 3 possible criminal offenses in the action