Not even a minute had passed in the final of the Champions League between real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund when three men bypassed the security in place at London’s Wembley Stadium and entered the field. None of them could return to their seats without being arrested, but all three achieved their objective of making their name known. Mellstroy Worldwide.
With that name sublimated on their t-shirts, the intruders entered the grass one by one. While one with a gray t-shirt took out his cholulo side and took a harmless selfie with Vinicius, the other two ran around the perimeter with white t-shirts that showed the name Mellstroy and his channel on the new Kick platform, the one that is stealing streamers from Twitch.
Who is Mellstroy? Your real name is Andrei Burim and is a popular and controversial Russian YouTuber. At 25 years old, he also has three million followers on Instagram and 1.8 million on TikTok.
Although he began streaming in 2015, playing Minecraft, CS, Dota 2 and other popular games on YouTube, in 2017 he became known for showing how he met girls via chat and persuaded them to take off their clothes with the promise of getting them likes and subscribers. on social networks.
His popularity grew at the rate of his violence. In a country where women’s rights are violated and gender violence is not punished because it is considered a “private matter,” Mellstroy, who already had more than 680,000 followers on Twitchgot into trash streaming, a questionable but very popular trend in those years in Russia.
In October 2020, no one was horrified when during a live event he grabbed the back of the head Alena Efremova and He hit his head against a table repeatedly, causing injuries to his mouth.. No spectators asked him to stop.
The model denounced him and demanded compensation of ten million rubles, more than 130 thousand dollars, which Mellstroy mocked. “It is a humiliatingly low amount of money; “If he asked me for 30 or 40 million I would pay.”
A few months later, The Presnensky District Court of Moscow sentenced the YouTuber for physical assault but, in a sexist country, with a lesser sentence: 6 months of corrective work and a thousand dollars to Efremova.
The most serious consequences for the future of the streamer were that in Twitch and YouTube banned him, thus preventing him from continuing to broadcast, so he has now moved to Kick. There, surprisingly, he has one of the most subscribed channels among non-English speaking streamers.
Before the Champions League final in London, he urged his 470,700 fans to invade the Wembley pitch for a reward of 350 thousand dollars to whoever achieves it first. At least three of them succeeded although, for now, the only thing they achieved was ending up in prison.
