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Sex addict claims hot female gamers caused him to injure his penis:
A California sex addict is suing the video streaming platform Twitch for $25 million after claiming the site's overabundance of "scantily clad gamers" have caused him to injure his penis, according to the lawsuit.
In the legal document filed at a Santa Clara County court on June 15, San Francisco's Erik Estavillo claimed the Amazon subsidiary had "subjected him to overly suggestive and sexual content from various female streamers."
To cure the "Twitch" in his pants, the self-proclaimed sex addict reportedly resorted to using a Fleshlight to masturbate while watching the salacious gamers, which resulted in him "chaffing" his penis every day.
The plaintiff's randy pastime was "extremely painful" and caused him redness and mild infections that forced him to use "Neosporin on his tip to prevent necrosis," per the 56-page document.
Estavillo alleges in the transcript he even once ejaculated on his PC monitor, which caused his gaming system to short-circuit and resulted in a fire that temporarily caused his apartment to black out.
In response to The Post's request for comment on the allegations, a Twitch spokesman simply stated, "These claims are frivolous and have absolutely no merit".
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Saturday June 27 2020, @10:40PM (5 children)
Apparently, the gaming content oftentimes draws less views than the "Just Chatting" section of the site. Unless a big game is released.
Estavillo is a serial plaintiff or whatever you want to call it.
Erik 'Pro Plaintiff' Estavillo assures us he won't sue anyone else, giving half his money 'to God' [update] [engadget.com] (December 1, 2009)
The events described in the lawsuit may have happened, but it obviously won't go anywhere.
Maybe he ran for Congress in California? [ballotpedia.org] Can't verify right now.
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(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Saturday June 27 2020, @10:44PM
Seriously? He interviewed with Joystiq?
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @09:19PM (3 children)
Oh, so he IS already sueing everything around him. One might hope that Rona might have alleviated us of such oxygen thieves.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday June 28 2020, @09:43PM (2 children)
On the contrary. It has given people more time to twiddle their thumbs and come up with schemes.
If I'm not mistaken, he typed up and filed this document himself without legal representation, which saves on costs. It's still tough to see how he could be a "pro plaintiff". He would need to file enough frivolous lawsuits to get settlements before the suits inevitably get tossed out, simply because some defendants want to avoid the embarrassment of being targeted by this loser. In this case, he did draw a lot of media attention towards the "Twitch thot" phenomenon.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2020, @12:27PM (1 child)
Maybe he'll file frivolous lawsuits for money, like if a marketing agency wants to attract attention to a marginal lesser known service such as twitch
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 29 2020, @12:53PM
It's a fun idea, but unlikely. Twitch is already well known among its target demographic, and generating a frivolous lawsuit to drum up publicity is just too weird to come up with and incompatible with the views of staff.
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