The conflict surrounding the German Twitch streamer Shurjoka is becoming ever wilder: Now a psychologist has published a YouTube video about the streamer and described it as a “psychological analysis.” For Shurjoka, such a remote diagnosis is an abuse of her person in order to gain advertising .
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Shurjoka complains about a psychologist’s YouTube video
This really annoys Shurjoka: On December 17th A video appeared on YouTube: “The Shurjoka Dynamics – Psychological Analysis: Kog. Dissonance, anger, resolution”. In this video, a psychologist comments on the conflict between Shurjoka and content creators such as KuchenTV, MontanaBlack and Alicia Joe.
He gives a rough classification of the situation and evaluates the role of the various opponents from the outside: MontanaBlack is praised as a “bridge builder”. Alicia Joe is said to be handling the conflict well by not getting too involved in it.
KuchenTV, on the other hand, would ridicule Shurjoka by exaggerating her.
For Shurjoka, the video is an affront. She calls it a “maximum moral and ethical fuck-up” in a Dec. 21 post on Twitter.
“Lukewarm psychological classifications”
Shurjoka says: For her it is incomprehensible how a psychologist is allowed to publish “foreign/remote diagnostics” about her on YouTube in order to advertise his own coaching – and all without her consent.
She made her own diagnoses public a few years ago. Now influencers would use the psychologist’s video and abuse it as a weapon against them:
“It’s hard to describe what it feels like when meaningless, lukewarm psychological classifications are used by experts as a weapon against those affected by real illnesses in order to gaslight them in public.”
Shurjoka cites several examples on Twitter of how she is portrayed as a “mentally ill person” in public discussions in YouTube videos and shown in thumbnails as a “madwoman in a straitjacket.”
She calls this monetized hate:
Shurjoka posted a thumbnail from KuchenTV showing her in a straitjacket. The video was released on December 12th. and now has over 151,000 views.
It is a disgusting hate campaign and misogyny when she is portrayed as “hysterical, crazy or insane”. We should be ashamed of that.
How do others see the video? Even Shurjoka’s biggest critic, KuchenTV, commented critically on the psychologist’s comments in a video. He lacks any deeper insight. It seems as if the psychologist’s video only wants to take a few clicks (via YouTube).
You can’t condense an 11-month-long conflict into 3 clips and then judge. Everything the psychologist says in the video he could have said himself – and he didn’t even study, but was “just a secondary school student”.
KuchenTV, for example, rejects the psychologist’s advice not to take a conflict to the extreme, but rather to let it go and de-escalate it. From a YouTuber’s perspective, it is smart to address conflicts: conflicts between YouTubers bring reach and money.
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