For over a year now, there has been an ongoing conflict surrounding Twitch streamer Shurjoka. Last weekend, new developments occurred – MeinMMO gives you an overview of the current events.
On the weekend of September 20-22, events escalated rapidly in the ongoing conflict between Twitch streamer Shurjoka and an ever-growing group of German content creators.
MeinMMO summarizes what happened over the weekend:
20 September 2024
Shurjoka streams 9 1/2 hours, criticizes Gronkh and Carina Pusch
On Friday, Shurjoka hosted a long stream in which she criticized various content creators on Twitch and YouTube. The VoD is no longer available on her channel. However, excerpts from the stream have been circulating on X since then, particularly about Gronkh and the streamer Carina Pusch.
Who is Carina Pusch?
Carina Pusch is an influencer who became known for her content on art and body painting. She now also deals with psychological and political topics. She was also friends with Shurjoka.
The influencer was in a legal dispute for over 2 ½ years with the controversial YouTuber ApoRed, who had sexually harassed her. In December 2023, the Cologne Regional Court ruled in her favor after she had fought for a long time (via YouTube). At the time, Pusch was exposed to hostility from the creator scene, who sided with ApoRed.
She later accused the disgraced Twitch streamer Unge of giving ApoRed a platform and thus trying to gaslight her, i.e. deliberately unsettle her (via YouTube). Shurjoka now accuses Pusch of behaving in her case the way Unge did to her back then.
Carina Pusch talks about covert narcissism
Streamer Carina Pusch reacted live on Twitch to a video on the topic of “hidden narcissism”. Carina Pusch says she grew up as the child of a narcissistic mother and her content deals with psychological and political topics.
In her reaction, Carina Pusch emphasized that these narcissistic traits can be observed in the German influencer scene. Some of her statements can be understood as barbs against Shurjoka:
These parallels give rise to the assumption that it is no coincidence that Pusch took up this topic at the weekend.
21 September 2024
Announcement of the “GirlzClub”
Twitch streamer Lehrenfrau and Carina Pusch posted a picture together as “GirlzClub”. This is probably an allusion to the “Boys Club” of opinion blogger KuchenTV (via X). This term established itself as an association of male influencers who are involved in the conflict with Shurjoka.
Judging by the outfits, the picture is from September 14th, when the two streamed together on Twitch and called themselves “GirlzClub.”
Who is Lehrfrau?
Lehrenfrau is a teacher who also works as an influencer on TikTok and Twitch. She is also committed to the White Ring’s victim support. In June 2024, she began showing closeness to the opinion blogger KuchenTV on X.
In August, Lehrenfrau stopped reacting to a video by KuchenTV after Shurjoka had made critical comments on Discord about Lehrenfrau’s commitment to a women’s protection organization, but at the same time participating in a hate campaign against a woman (via Rocket Beans Forum).
At the beginning of September, there was another public argument between the apprentice and Shurjoka due to different experiences they both had with stalking (via X)
Teacher wants to comment on allegations
Lehrenfrau also announced a stream about allegations against her. This took place on September 21st from 6:30 p.m. and attracted an average of more than 1,000 viewers, a record for the streamer (via X, SullyGnome).
Shurjoka writes on Discord about friendship with Carina Pusch
On her Discord server, Shurjoka responded to Lehrenfrau’s stream. She only found out through it that Carina felt the friendship with her was one-sided and had therefore broken off contact with her.
She admits that she may not have been a good friend due to her own mental health problems, but she cannot understand why this was not clarified with her directly. Instead, she now has to hear these accusations from a person who is participating in cyberbullying against her.
22 September 2024
Gronkh provokes with noodle soup
Gronkh posted on X from a vacation in Japan with an allusion to a statement by Shurjoka. The streamer had accused him of his comments on the conflict between Scurrows and her being “peak misogyny,” i.e. the “peak of misogyny.”
Gronkh shared a picture of a bowl of soup with the words “Peak Misosuppe!!”
What does Gronkh have to do with this?
Gronkh had received criticism on Twitter/X for his stance on the game Hogwarts Legacy and Harry Potter author JK Rowling. However, there was a lot of support from his fans on Twitch. Shurjoka later said that thanks to the support, it wasn’t a real shitstorm.
Gronkh had criticized this statement by Shurjoka in August 2023 and accused “her side” of lying (via YouTube). He had amusedly dismissed the accusation of misogyny in the stream.
Gronkh was one of the first big Let’s Players on German YouTube and is a part of the childhood and a role model for many viewers – but also other content creators.
Teaching woman gets Twitch ban
On the evening of September 22nd, Lehrenfrau’s Twitch account was banned. The ban was assigned to the so-called “Shurjoka bubble”. Numerous users suspect that “Meppo161” from Shurjoka’s circle is behind the ban.
The Twitch streamer AlphaKevin had viewed statements by Meppo in a video, to which Lehrenfrau had reacted. It is theoretically possible that a DMCA strike was made due to the content shown in the video (via X). However, this is not proven.
In general, copyright strikes are extremely frowned upon among Twitch streamers. There is a kind of silent agreement that you can react to other people’s content because – so the idea goes – everyone benefits. Strikes on reaction content are seen as an attack on livelihood and an abuse of the DMCA system.
Even after the weekend, there are new developments almost every minute.
23 September 2024
Shurjoka says the lorewoman ban is not related to her
On X, Shurjoka distanced herself from the ban. She said she had not been home for most of the weekend and neither she nor anyone from her team was behind the ban.
Meppo also claims that he became the target of swatting due to public hostility (via X).
Lehrenfrau’s ban is now being discussed particularly intensively because opinion blogger AlphaKevin was recently banned. The ban is linked to a DMCA strike. AlphaKevin benefited from this ban and was able to record growth as a content creator on YouTube and Twitch.