The conflict around the German Twitch streamer Shurjoka is getting wilder: Now a psychologist released a YouTube video about the streamer and referred to it as “Psychological Analysis.” For Shurjoka, such a remote diagnosis is an abuse of her person to make advertising.
What is this conflict about?
- The streamer Shurjoka positioned herself against the video game “Hogwarts Legacy” in 2022 and called for a boycott of the action-adventure because Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling supports transphobic views. This sparked opposition.
- After Shurjoka received the award as Gamer of the Year in 2023, she got into a conflict with several German streamers who reacted to her videos, criticized her, and partly attacked her. These videos led to Shurjoka’s channels on social media being flooded with negative, hurtful messages.
- The streamers who criticize her believe: They only expressed “factual criticism,” to which Shurjoka reacted completely wrongly. However, Shurjoka and some observers (via keinenpixel.de) see the behavior of the criticizing streamers as a hate and incitement campaign for financial interest. Recently, the conflict escalated in December 2023 and reached a temporary peak with the Twitch ban of a streamer.
MontanaBlack is in the midst of this conflict, he reacted to critical videos about Shurjoka and significantly increased the reach of the criticism:
Shurjoka criticizes YouTube video of a psychologist
This annoys Shurjoka greatly: On December 17, a video was released on YouTube: “The Shurjoka Dynamics – Psychological Analysis: Cog. Dissonance, Anger, Solution.” In this video, a psychologist comments on the conflict between Shurjoka and content creators such as KuchenTV, MontanaBlack, and Alicia Joe.
He provides a rough categorization of the situation and assesses the role of the various opponents from the outside: MontanaBlack is praised as a “bridge builder.” Alicia Joe is noted for handling the conflict well by not engaging in it further.
KuchenTV, on the other hand, would ridicule Shurjoka by overemphasizing
her.
For Shurjoka, the video is an affront. She called it a “maximum moral and ethical violation” in a post on Twitter from December 21.
“Lukewarm psychological assessments”
Shurjoka says: For her, it is incomprehensible how a psychologist can publish “remote diagnosis” about her on YouTube to promote his own coaching – and that entirely without her consent.
Several years ago, she made her own diagnoses public. Now, influencers use the psychologist’s video and misuse it as a weapon against her:
“It is hard to describe how it feels when meaningless, lukewarm psychological assessments by experts are misused as a weapon against those affected by real illnesses to gaslight them in public.”
Shurjoka cites several examples on Twitter, showing how she is portrayed as “mentally ill” in YouTube videos and depicted in thumbnails as “mad in a straitjacket.”
She calls this monetized hatred
:
It is a disgusting hate campaign and an expression of misogyny to portray her as “hysterical, crazy, or mentally incompetent.” One should be ashamed of that.
How do others see the video? Even the biggest critic of Shurjoka, KuchenTV, has criticized the psychologist’s statements in a video. He finds that it lacks any deeper insight. It seems that the psychologist’s video only wants to grab a few clicks (via youtube).
One cannot summarize an 11-month-long conflict into 3 clips and then judge it. Everything the psychologist says in that video, he could have said himself – and he hasn’t even studied, but is “just a high school student.”
KuchenTV rejects the psychologist’s advice to not escalate a conflict but to let it go and de-escalate. From a YouTuber’s perspective, it is wise to engage in conflicts: because conflicts between YouTubers bring reach and money.
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