By Andreas Filbig
Unfortunately, fists are not only flying virtually at Gamescom this year!
The online dispute between the Berlin Twitch star Tanzban (real name: Kilian Heinrich, 25) and the two casino streamers Orangemorange (Kevin Bongers, 29) and Scurrows (Theo Bottländer) escalated on Friday afternoon at the Cologne games fair.
Video recordings show how a war of words, including insults, initially ensues.
This is followed by a scuffle in which Orangemorange, according to his own statement on Twitter, was spat on by Tanzban and hit or pushed by someone. The video mainly shows his own supposed counterattack. A plastic cup toss and a swing in the direction of no dancing.
After that, the two streamers are separated from each other. At first glance, Lola (streamer name: quiteLola) seems to be suffering from the ban on dancing. She wanted to calm things down, got caught between the fronts and grabbed her painful head after the scramble, and was even accidentally struck down by a ban on dancing.
Lola called in briefly on Friday evening Twitter. Apparently she got off lightly. “Thank you for all the lovely messages. I’m fine so far!” she wrote.
In the run-up to weeks of online beef
For weeks, Twitch star ban on dancing has been criticizing his opponents for their deals with online casinos.
Orangemorange and Scurrows collect a lot of money from the game providers for recording themselves gambling on the respective platforms and streaming it live on the Internet.
A great advertisement for the casinos. For a ban on dancing, however, a nuisance. He accuses slot streamers of driving their target group, some of whom are young, into gambling addiction for the sake of profit. The ban on dancing has also been criticized in the past for Twitch superstar MontanaBlack (Marcel Eris, 34), who now no longer accepts casino deals.
On his twitter channel he also commented briefly on the argument, writing: “Violence is pretty uncool.”