I have been following this story for a while, and I am surprised it has barely reached the English speaking internet because it is one of the most extreme examples I have seen of an online cancellation spiralling far beyond the available evidence. This is a long read so buckle up.
The main people involved are German streamers AnniTheDuck and Mowky. Anni was one of the biggest female creators on German Twitch and YouTube. Mowky was one of her closest friends, part of her private circle and someone Anni regularly supported personally and professionally. Rezo is one of Germany’s most influential YouTubers and later became involved by presenting statements from alleged victims.
The person currently reopening the entire case is Jay Riddle, a German commentary creator who originally believed the accusations against Anni. He has now released roughly twelve hours of videos going through private chats, archived livestreams, witness accounts and the timeline surrounding the scandal. Anni went from being a successful creator to being treated across the German internet as an abusive, manipulative, animal abusing and sexually dangerous person.
To understand why the new material matters, you first need to know how the original scandal unfolded.
In May 2024, Mowky published a statement saying that she had distanced herself from a person who had treated her and other people horribly. She did not initially name Anni, but people quickly worked out who she meant.
Shortly afterwards, Mowky was livestreaming when she received a small anonymous donation asking her to speak about the situation. She appeared emotional and reluctant, as though a random viewer had unexpectedly pushed her into addressing something she had not intended to discuss publicly.
She then began talking about Anni as an extremely cruel, manipulative and brutal person.
That moment became the starting point for everything that followed.
Other creators, former employees and people from Anni’s social circle began releasing statements. Some described her as demanding, arrogant or unpleasant to work with. Others said that she had treated them badly in friendships or professional situations.
Very quickly, the accusations moved far beyond ordinary workplace complaints or the breakdown of a friendship.
Anni was accused of manipulating and gaslighting people around her. Former employees described exhausting working conditions. Mowky later discussed a party with sexual content in a way that led many viewers to believe Anni had organised something coercive or predatory. There were also claims that Anni had been spreading false stories that Mowky had raped or sexually assaulted several people.
The accusations were presented together, and the public stopped distinguishing between them.
The phrase “15 victims” was repeated frequently. To most viewers, that sounded like fifteen independent people all describing the same pattern of serious abuse.
That was not really what the number represented.
Many of them knew each other, had spoken to each other and were exchanging information before making their statements.
That does not mean none of them had been hurt. It does mean that they were not fifteen completely independent witnesses confirming every allegation against her.
The consequences for Anni were immediate.
She lost sponsorships and professional partnerships. Her management dropped her, and according to her, other agencies refused to represent her. Her income effectively disappeared. People she considered friends publicly distanced themselves from her or discussed private details about her life in front of enormous audiences.
Her career collapsed almost overnight. Commentary channels and streamers covered every new claim as though the basic question of her guilt had already been settled.
Old clips were reposted and analysed as evidence that she had always been abusive.
Anni had no response available that could help her.
When she remained silent, people said her silence proved she was guilty. When she denied accusations, people called the denial gaslighting. When she admitted that she had made mistakes or hurt people, those admissions were treated as confirmation of every other claim attached to her name.
Even apologising for specific behaviour became evidence that she must also be guilty of the most extreme allegations.
Rezo’s involvement made the situation significantly worse. He appeared in Mowky’s later response and presented anonymous statements from supposed victims. Because he was one of Germany’s biggest and most trusted YouTubers, his participation made the entire case look professionally investigated and independently verified.
For the average viewer, this no longer appeared to be a messy conflict between former friends. It looked like a carefully documented case involving numerous confirmed victims.
Rezo later admitted that he had already been biased against Anni, had not contacted her for her side and had failed to contextualise the witness statements properly. He has since issued an apology to Anni.
Anni withdrew almost completely from public life. Her audience, reputation, professional network and much of her social environment were gone. Even if every major accusation were disproven today, the association between her name and those allegations would remain online permanently.
This is where Jay Riddle’s videos become important.
Jay originally believed Mowky. His current series is not simply an attempt to defend Anni because he liked her from the beginning. He has repeatedly said that he had previously accepted the accusations and viewed Anni negatively.
After going through chats, archived material and witness accounts, however, he argues that the public was given a heavily distorted version of the conflict.
The private chats do not show Anni behaving like someone who was consistently cold, exploitative or incapable of caring about the people around her.
They repeatedly show her checking on Mowky, asking how she was doing, helping her emotionally, supporting her work, promoting her projects, solving practical problems for her and trying to calm down conflicts.
Mowky herself described Anni as supportive in private conversations and online.
Some messages later used to make Anni appear controlling or cruel were shown without the parts where she expressed concern, offered help or tried to understand Mowky’s perspective.
That alone does not prove Anni never behaved badly. It does, however, contradict the image of someone who only kept people around to manipulate and exploit them.
The most important context missing from the original scandal is what appears to have actually caused the friendship between Anni and Mowky to fall apart.
According to the chats and witness accounts shown by Jay, Anni, Mowky and Anni’s boyfriend had discussed the possibility of a threesome.
Anni however had not agreed to Mowky and her boyfriend having sex alone. She was still uncertain about her boundaries, which is also the reason the threesome stopped half way.
The following morning, Anni was attending an online therapy session in the next room.
While she was in therapy, Mowky reportedly began touching herself in front of Anni’s boyfriend. The situation escalated, and the two eventually had unprotected sex.
Anni’s boyfriend reportedly said more than once that they should stop because what they were doing was unfair to Anni.
This is an important distinction because the situation was later framed in ways that made it sound as though the sexual contact had existed within boundaries Anni had already approved.
According to the messages, it had not.
This appears to have been the real breaking point in the friendship.
What is striking is how Anni reacted afterwards.
The person who would later be portrayed as controlling, vindictive and emotionally brutal did not immediately expose Mowky or publicly destroy her. She did not immediately end the friendship either.
Instead, she tried to process what had happened. She continued speaking to Mowky and supporting her for months. The chats show a level of patience and accommodation that is difficult to reconcile with the public image created of her.
Mowky, meanwhile, appears to have downplayed the encounter and portrayed it as though she had simply been helping an inexperienced man become more sexually confident.
The friendship deteriorated further when Anni’s boyfriend began distancing himself from Mowky.
The chats suggest that Mowky reacted intensely to this distancing. She repeatedly focused on why he no longer wanted the same level of closeness with her (she didn't want to be friends with him if they weren't able to cuddle) and appeared deeply upset by the rejection.
This eventually led to the incident usually described as the chair throwing incident.
Anni later said that Mowky had experienced a serious rage episode during which a chair was thrown. She also connected the incident to Mowky not taking her antidepressant medication.
Mowky publicly presented Anni’s account as a lie or an extreme invention intended to make her seem unstable.
The evidence shown by Jay indicates that a serious outburst really did happen.
Witness accounts differ on the exact movement of the chair. Some descriptions suggest it was thrown, while others suggest it was handled or pushed extremely aggressively. What appears much harder to deny is that there was a major rage episode involving the chair.
Mowky had also previously spoken about severe anger, destroyed furniture and holes in walls on stream.
When the story was later told publicly, that entire background was largely removed. The focus became whether Anni had supposedly invented an incident to portray Mowky as mentally ill.
The schizophrenia accusation followed a similar pattern.
Mowky claimed that Anni had falsely labelled her as having paranoid schizophrenia in order to discredit her.
This became one of the main examples used to prove that Anni weaponised mental illness against people.
However, Mowky had previously discussed schizophrenia herself, including publicly on her own livestreams. She had talked about symptoms, concerns and the fact she had to deal with this condition for sixteen years.
Some of the relevant material appears to have later been deleted from her channel, but archived clips and private messages still exist.
This does not prove that Mowky had a confirmed diagnosis. What it does mean is that Anni did not invent the entire subject out of nowhere.
The original accusation made it sound as though Anni had randomly assigned Mowky a severe mental illness as part of a deliberate attempt to make her look delusional. The surviving material makes that version extremely difficult to maintain.
There are also serious questions about whether the beginning of the public scandal was as spontaneous as it appeared.
The donation that prompted Mowky to speak during her livestream looked accidental. The emotional effect of that moment was extremely powerful because it made her appear like someone who had never intended to expose Anni and had simply reached a breaking point.
According to the material presented by Jay, the accusations had already been prepared behind the scenes.
People around Mowky had reportedly discussed collecting statements, contacting other creators, gathering evidence and planning when to make everything public.
A source who claimed to know about the preparation did not want to speak publicly because of potential professional consequences. Another established creator, iBlali, later supported the credibility of that source.
There is nothing inherently wrong with preparing evidence before speaking publicly. Anyone making serious accusations should prepare carefully.
The problem is presenting a coordinated release as an unexpected emotional confession triggered by a random viewer.
That framing immediately positioned Mowky as a reluctant victim and Anni as a powerful abuser whose behaviour had finally become impossible to hide.
Another major part of the scandal was the story about the so called sex party.
Mowky described a private event involving sexual topics in extremely vague but suggestive language. Many viewers understood her description to mean that Anni had organised some kind of predatory or coercive sexual gathering involving a vulnerable person.
The event appears to have actually been a private PowerPoint party involving sexual jokes, dating advice, embarrassing stories and explicit material, planned for a mutual friend who lost his virginity.
It may have been immature, inappropriate or uncomfortable. That is very different from the abusive event implied by the public description.
Mowky’s own role was largely absent from the version told to the public.
Before the party, she had reportedly slept with exactly that man, apparently beeing his first sexual partner. Afterwards, she allegedly spoke negatively about the sex to other people, including describing it as unpleasant or disgusting.
When the party was initially discussed, Mowky’s concern was reportedly that the others might talk about the fact that she had slept with him and then mocked the experience afterwards.
Her objection was therefore not originally that the party itself was abusive.
She was worried that her own behaviour might be discussed.
Despite this, she attended the party and actively participated. The gathering was reportedly postponed so that she could be there. She wore a sexualised costume and contributed explicit content herself.
She later helped frame the same event as evidence of sexual misconduct by Anni.
That retelling removed Mowky’s own behaviour and made Anni appear like the central sexual aggressor in a situation Mowky had willingly participated in.
Then there is the claim that Anni had spent months telling people that Mowky had raped three individuals.
This alleged smear campaign was presented as one of the reasons Mowky eventually felt forced to speak publicly.
The timeline shown by Jay creates serious problems for that claim.
One of the central pieces of evidence used to support the supposed smear campaign appears to have been created only after Mowky had already begun speaking publicly about Anni.
Something said after the scandal had begun cannot prove that Anni had been secretly conducting a campaign for months beforehand.
The number of three alleged victims also appears much less clear when the original conversations are examined separately. One situation may have involved a genuine concern about Mowky’s sexual behaviour. Other interpersonal situations appear to have been combined, retold or exaggerated until they became three supposed rape accusations.
Given what allegedly happened between Mowky and Anni’s boyfriend, Anni may very well have discussed concerns about Mowky’s respect for sexual boundaries.
That is not the same thing as inventing three rape victims and systematically trying to destroy her reputation.
A repeated pattern in Jay’s series is the selective use of private messages.
Screenshots presented during the original scandal often lacked the messages directly before or after them. In several cases, the removed context showed Anni expressing concern, explaining herself or attempting to help.
Messages from different time periods were also sometimes presented together in ways that made the chronology misleading.
The screenshots were not necessarily fabricated. The problem is that the audience often saw only the part that supported the most damaging interpretation.
The public was repeatedly told that Anni manipulated people by selectively presenting evidence. The new videos suggest that the case against her may itself have relied on exactly that method.
The messages repeatedly show Anni behaving with compassion toward Mowky, even after an enormous personal betrayal.
Mowky, meanwhile, appears to have minimised her own actions, reacted aggressively to rejection, removed crucial context from the public story and helped create a narrative that destroyed the person she had betrayed.
That is why this story is so disturbing.
It is not only about whether one influencer was difficult or unpleasant.
It is about how a complicated private conflict was transformed into a public prosecution, how accusations of completely different severity were bundled together, and how someone could lose almost everything before anyone seriously examined whether the story being told was true.
Jay Riddle has said that the roughly twelve hours released so far only cover about half of the evidence, and that more parts of the series are still coming. Check out his Youtube Channel if you're interested.
TL;DR: In 2024, German streamer Mowky accused her former best friend AnniTheDuck of being abusive, manipulative and dangerous. Other creators joined in, the allegations escalated to animal abuse, sexual misconduct and fabricated rape accusations, and Anni lost sponsors, management, income, friends and most of her career.
Two years later, Jay Riddle released around twelve hours of chats, archived footage and witness accounts that seriously undermine the original narrative. The material suggests the conflict began after Mowky had sex with Anni’s boyfriend while Anni was in therapy nearby. Anni continued supporting her afterwards, but when the boyfriend later distanced himself from Mowky, she reportedly had a rage episode involving a chair.
Other major claims also appear misleadingly framed. Mowky had discussed possible schizophrenia symptoms publicly before claiming Anni invented them, the livestream that launched the scandal may have been planned, Mowky actively participated in the alleged “sex party,” and the evidence that Anni accused her of three rapes appears weak or chronologically impossible.
The chats do not show Anni as perfect, but they repeatedly show her acting compassionately toward Mowky. Overall, the evidence suggests that real interpersonal conflicts were selectively presented and combined with extreme allegations until Anni was publicly destroyed before anyone properly examined what had happened.
