Twitch streamer \u201csick\u201d after mother\u2019s home swatted by trolls Twitch: Kwitty23 \/ Unsplash.com, Bernie AlmanzarYet another Twitch streamer has become a victim of \u201cswatting\u201d after trolls sent a squad of armed law enforcement officers to his mothers\u2019 home during a broadcast on January 24. [jwplayer QIWQDyD7] \u2018Swatting\u2019 is a crime that has risen in prominence over the past few years. Defined as a type of prank call, \u2018swatting\u2019 aims to send large amounts of armed law enforcement officers to a person\u2019s home or other location, usually with claims that the target is endangering others. In the past several years, a number of Twitch streamers and high-profile influencers have been victims of swatting \u2014 and despite a growing awareness regarding the topic, it continues to pose a significant problem. Twitch streamer \u2018Kwitty23\u2019 is an example of this discouraging development. On January 24, the broadcaster revealed that he\u2019d seen a number of messages in his chat from two accounts saying such phrases as \u201cswat,\u201d \u201clook outside,\u201d and \u201cgo check out your window before you\u2019re the next reported dead body.\u201d This understandably concerned the streamer, who later discovered that the commenters in question had swatted his old address \u2014 the home of his mother, who, instead of Kwitty, had become the target of the swatting. Read More: When is CodeMiko back on Twitch? – That\u2019s not all; the swatters had allegedly told police that \u201csomeone from this address said they were going to murder an infant child.\u201d \u201cI thought they were trolls,\u201d Kwitty tweeted of the incident. \u201cTurns out they got a hold of my old address where my mom lives and sent the SWAT team. My mom had guns raised at her. I feel sick to my stomach.\u201d There we’re a few people who came to my channel today during stream yelling “”SWAT”” and “”look outside”” i thought they were trolls, turns out they got a hold of my old address where my mom lives and sent the swat team and my mom had guns raised at her. I feel sick to my stomach. \u2014 Kwitty23 aka Kdub (@Kwitty23) January 24, 2021 Kwitty went on to release the names of the accounts who had sounded off in his chat, asking his viewers to report them if possible. Luckily, both Kwitty and his mother are okay, as the broadcaster explained in a Twitlonger posted on January 25. \u201cMy mother is ok, just pretty shaken up of course, but we\u2019ve been in contact with the local authorities and they are actively trying to track these individuals down,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWe\u2019ve also taken proper measures, so this hopefully wont happen again.\u201d The streamer advised the caller to seek therapy and urged streamers to take whatever measures necessary to protect themselves. Kwitty\u2019s situation comes on the heels of yet another high-profile swatting situation related to YouTuber JoJo Siwa, who was also swatted in wake of her coming out announcement on the weekend of January 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch streamer \u201csick\u201d after mother\u2019s home swatted by trolls Twitch: Kwitty23 \/ Unsplash.com, Bernie AlmanzarYet another Twitch streamer has become a victim of \u201cswatting\u201d after trolls sent a squad of armed law enforcement officers to his mothers\u2019 home during a broadcast on January 24. [jwplayer QIWQDyD7] \u2018Swatting\u2019 is a crime that has risen in prominence […]<\/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-62741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62741","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=62741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}