Twitch streamer reveals terrifying IRL stalking incident with viewer who \u201cloves\u201d her Unsplash.com: Warren Wong \/ YouTube: Ottomoth \/ Twitter: waffuls_Twitch streamer \u2018Alia\u2019 shared a shocking experience after one of her followers flew from Louisiana to Canada and came to her workplace to confess his \u201clove\u201d for her. Twitch streamers often share large portions of their time with viewers, broadcasting for hours a day and interacting with their chat while picking up a few regular fans along the way. Unfortunately, some of these fans (and trolls) can take things too far. A number of streamers have undergone serious breaches of privacy during their career \u2014 in August alone, several high-profile broadcasters were swatted in a series of frightening incidents. Stalkers are also prevalent among streamers, with names like Amouranth and Sweet Anita sharing their own horrifying stories dealing with stalkers over the course of their time in the limelight. Twitch streamer Alia, also known as \u2018waffuls,\u2019 updated fans with her own stalking situation in a chilling Twitlonger post published on August 28. According to Alia, one of her viewers had been following her for a year and finally found out where she lived. He flew all the way from Louisiana in the Southern United States to British Columbia, Canada to meet her in person \u2014 and even found out her city and her exact place of employment from years-old Instagram photos. Alia says that his behavior started up online, when he \u201cdonated thousands of dollars, cheered thousands of bits, and gifted hundreds of subs over the course of a few months. It all came out of nowhere.\u201d Twitch streamer stalked by \u201cobsessed\u201d fan He also admitted to falling in love with her over the internet. After telling him that she didn\u2019t have any romantic interest in him and reiterating that she only streams for fun, things seemed to calm down\u2026 until he showed up at Alia\u2019s workplace. When asked why he\u2019d stalked her, the fan answered: \u201cEither I\u2019m crazy or I\u2019m in love with you.\u201d \u201cHe said he was in love and obsessed with me,\u201d Alia wrote. \u201cI told him we don\u2019t know anything about each other and he didn\u2019t seem to understand. He also didn\u2019t understand why I was angry or shocked.\u201d Luckily, Alia was able to text her manager and asked them to call 911. Local law enforcement eventually showed up and held him overnight before releasing him. Alia claims he then sent her a \u201cdisturbing DM\u201d on Twitter before claiming he was going back to the States. Alia is using her harrowing experience with the stalker to warn others about protecting their privacy online and urging fans to respect streamers\u2019 personal lives. \u201cIf you have to stalk someone to find out where they live or work just to meet them in real life\u2026 that\u2019s not friendship. If you have to throw thousands of dollars at someone just to get some affection\u2026 that\u2019s not love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch streamer reveals terrifying IRL stalking incident with viewer who \u201cloves\u201d her Unsplash.com: Warren Wong \/ YouTube: Ottomoth \/ Twitter: waffuls_Twitch streamer \u2018Alia\u2019 shared a shocking experience after one of her followers flew from Louisiana to Canada and came to her workplace to confess his \u201clove\u201d for her. Twitch streamers often share large portions of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}