Overview
- An old voice message describing the 2021 offer resurfaced and spread online in early June, prompting public scrutiny and demands for a response.
- In a YouTube statement MontanaBlack (Marcel Eris) confirmed he offered KuchenTV €35,000 in 2021 to prevent a corrected critical video from being re-uploaded and apologized for the decision.
- MontanaBlack says KuchenTV considered the payment but ultimately rejected it shortly before a planned handover, and the streamer has taken responsibility for the attempt to suppress the video.
- Lawyer and commentator Christian Solmecke has said an offer to pay a critic is not automatically a crime, framing the matter as legally ambiguous but ethically problematic.
- The episode deepens scrutiny of MontanaBlack’s past casino livestreams and old controversial clips, and it raises broader questions about how creators handle criticism, platform norms, and reputational risk.