Never Meet Your... Fans? (Emiru, Eilish & More) - A Dose of Buckley

Support Buckley: http://patreon.com/DoseofBuckley They say "never meet your heroes", but did we maybe ignore that advice in a way and create too many parasocial relationships? Buckley looks at the recent incident at TwitchCon, where a streamer named "Emiru" was grabbed by a fan and security was effectively ineffective. This was just one of THREE incidents in a 30 day period, as a fan also grabbed Billie Eilish at a concert, and a streamer in South Korea was murdered by one of her "whales" who had "donated" $70,000 to her, and was upset he wasn't getting anything in return. NOTE: This was made before the Mizkif accusations, but those seemingly have nothing to do with TwitchCon, that's an entirely separate issue.