The Twitch streamer Pia “Shurjoka” Scholz (26) has been dealing with criticism, mockery, and malicious comments online for months. One of her critics, Tim “KuchenTV” Heldt, received a permanent ban from Twitch. Now Shurjoka has obtained another ban against a streamer.
Who was banned? “Nemesis316” is a streamer whose content was primarily focused on Dead by Daylight for a long time. However, he has now shifted to reaction streams as well as “political and socially critical” content, as he states in his description on Twitch.
He has also dealt with the subject regarding Pia “Shurjoka” and has released reaction streams and YouTube videos about the streamer. On December 18, 2023, his Twitch ban was announced via the automated account StreamerBans on X, formerly Twitter.
This is the first ban for the streamer. The duration of the suspension is unknown. The reason for the ban appears to be a copyright infringement. Nemesis316 allegedly showed a stream of Shurjoka on his own channel as part of a reaction.
A DMCA Strike as a Last Resort
Which unwritten rule did Shurjoka violate? As Shurjoka wrote shortly after the ban became known on her own X account, she obtained the ban through a so-called DMCA strike. Apparently, she asserted her copyright to content that Nemesis316 had reacted to.
Sending copyright strikes to each other is considered frowned upon among content creators, as it is common to react to each other’s content.
Shurjoka Urges Twitch to Take More Action Against Hate Content
How does Shurjoka justify her actions? The streamer explains that she also reluctantly resorted to the means of a DMCA strike. She herself thinks it is “not cool to do that,” but apparently feels she has no other way to help herself. Shurjoka says she has been reporting abusive content against her for months, but Twitch does not respond appropriately.
“The rights to my video material [are] more important to Twitch than the integrity of its content creators,” writes Shurjoka. She accuses the streaming platform of not doing enough and demands that Twitch “enforce its own rules.”
She now announces that she will obtain DMCA strikes against streamers who not only show her streams in full on their own channels but also insult, defame, sexualize, or pathologize her, attributing illnesses or pathological behavior to her.
Streams that relate to the right of quotation are not affected, according to Shurjoka. She specifically refers to “hatefluencers” who would show their VoDs to tear her down. “Hatefluencer” refers to individuals who spread hate and incitement on social media.
What are the backgrounds? Shurjoka has been strongly attacked online for months. MeinMMO has reported several times on the situation:
- At the beginning of the year, the streamer ruffled many people’s feathers with her criticism of the “Harry Potter” game Hogwarts Legacy.
- When she was named “Player of the Year” for her commitment, the atmosphere flared up again.
- The opinion blogger KuchenTV began producing videos about Shurjoka, to which other high-reach influencers reacted, creating a cycle of ever new videos and reactions.
- In November 2023, there was a confrontation between Shurjoka and Alicia Joe, which again led to a content spiral of reactions and reactions to reactions.
- The renewed escalation of the conflict led to KuchenTV receiving a permanent ban from Twitch.
Streamers See Themselves as Victims
What do others say? Both Nemesis316 and KuchenTV have commented on the ban. They see themselves as victims and write on their respective X accounts that Shurjoka is allowed to spread lies about them, but they are banned if they try to defend themselves.
Nemesis316 also states that he neither restreamed Shurjoka’s streams nor insulted, defamed, or sexualized her (via X). What exactly happened in his stream on December 18, 2023, cannot be reconstructed as the VoD is no longer accessible due to the suspension of his channel.
The streamer has already announced his return. It can therefore be assumed that this is not a permanent ban.
In the meantime, KuchenTV also received a ban from X: After Twitch, the next platform bans KuchenTV
