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Twitch Streamer Sexually Assaulted During A Livestream By A Stranger
A woman who goes by may5w on Twitch was cornered by a stranger in Hong Kong while she was livestreaming, and she was saved in the nick of time because of a passerby. The culprit has been identified.
By Gina Florio2 min read
A Twitch streamer known as may5w narrowly escaped a sexual assault while live-streaming her first day in Hong Kong, thanks to the intervention of a passer-by. On September 10, during the course of her IRL (In Real Life) stream—one of the popular categories on the Amazon-owned platform where streamers document their real-world adventures—may5w was accosted by a stranger who began groping her. Despite her pleas for him to stop, the man persisted and followed her into a subway station.