At the beginning of November, the streamer Theo “Scurrows“ Bottländer for excitement as he shouted “MontanaBlack“ Eris accused of not paying off debts over €10,000. This was followed by a moral ultimatum, further allegations and leaked private messages. After almost a week everything should now be clarified.
What’s with the debt? On November 2, Scurrows made a public post on Twitter. He stated that he wanted to remind MontanaBlack of his outstanding debts because he would not respond to private messages.
Scurrows initially spoke of a five-digit amount, later he explained that it was around €10,000. Streamer Kevin “orangemorange” Bongers also stated that MontanaBlack still had outstanding debts with him. He bought a GameBoy from him for €4,000 but never received the device.
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The streamers gave MontanaBlack a kind of moral ultimatum: if he paid off his debt by 8:00 p.m. the same day, they would donate the sum – or the equivalent of the GameBoy – to the charity Bread for the World.
MontanaBlack did not comply with this request, which is why the streamers decided to make further details public.
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Scurrows and orangemorange are publicly pressuring
How did the streamers plan to make themselves heard? In the days following the lapse of the ultimatum, Scurrows posted daily Twitter posts, alluding to the situation in more or less subtle ways.
In addition, there were “real talks” in the streams of Scurrows, in which the “double standards of the people” should be pointed out. This was probably an allusion to the fact that MontanaBlack commented on the indebted YouTuber ApoRed, but should not have paid his own debt.
But it could also have been people whom Scurrows accused of treating him unfairly because he was a “casino streamer”. With anyone else, one would have been outraged that someone would not pay their debts, but in his case it would be a question of sympathy, so the accusation.
On November 7, Scurrows appeared fed up with his statements being questioned and posted a series of screenshots from private messages on Twitter.
The screenshots are said to show Scurrows attempting to arrange the payback with MontanaBlack and reminding him multiple times. He also indicated that legal action would be taken by MontanaBlack “to check his mailbox soon.”
orangemorange speaks of further debts of over €400,000
Meanwhile, orangemorange raised further allegations in a stream. He is said to have vouched for MontanaBlack on the role-playing server “GrandRP” in GTA V. He was then offered a deal by the operators of the server:
MontanaBlack was asked to host a series of commercial streams and was awarded €400,000. However, the streams never took place. That put orangemorange in a difficult situation and even jeopardized his own deal.
However, orangemorange admitted not knowing if MontanaBlack returned the money. Then he wanted to follow up again.
At the same time, however, he threatened MontanaBlack: The longer he didn’t get in touch, the more information orangemorange would reveal.
Even critics of Scurrows and orangemorange were beginning to think there might be something to it. After all, it is not particularly wise of the two to make easily refutable allegations public. In the worst case, they could even have been threatened with an ad (via Twitter).
Apparently MontanaBlack gives in
What’s the latest development? Today, November 8th, orangemorange announced via Twitter that it had had a lengthy phone call with MontanaBlack. The good news: he should finally get his GameBoy! (via Twitter)
Scurrows also agreed: The situation between the streamers has finally been clarified. It is not known whether it is only about €10,000 or whether the GrandRP deal was also discussed in the phone call.
In any case, Scurrows wants to carry out his original plan and donate the money as soon as he receives it. He had already made several donations to various charities public in the past few days.
So it seems like things had a happy ending after all. MontanaBlack himself hasn’t commented on this on Twitter, but he has at least acknowledged the portrayal of Scurrows and orangemorange by liking their tweets.
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