Overview
- Santos told RTL at the YouTube Awards that the situation is a one‑sided dispute and that it is not his doing.
- The flap stems from a Bayern 3 segment where Bill and Tom Kaulitz mock‑ranked German artists and placed Santos with a derisive aside of “ten was already taken, so six.”
- Reported view counts for the TikTok clip range from more than 600,000 to over 740,000, with heavy fan speculation in the comments.
- Tokio Hotel have not publicly addressed the controversy, and no face‑to‑face exchange occurred at the awards despite bassist Georg Listing being on site.
- Coverage notes the Kaulitz brothers often comment bluntly on their podcast, leaving open the possibility they could address the issue later.