BJ Youngberry, who claims to have been subjected to a ‘slave contract’ related to Excel broadcasting. Personal YouTube channel

An internet streamer revealed that, due to a ‘slave contract’ with a company, they ended up doing Excel broadcasts (a form of personal livestream that induces sponsorship competitions).

On the 14th, internet streamer Youngberry stated on their YouTube channel, in a video titled ‘Explaining all allegations about me’, “By the time you are watching this video, there is a very high chance I am hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital,” adding, “The situation has become so serious that I tried to make an extreme choice again, and a psychiatrist recommended hospitalization.”

Regarding how the Excel-broadcast contract came about, Youngberry said, “I started TikTok Live with just a mobile phone while living in a gosiwon, and an entertainment company contact reached out. On the spot, I was offered a chance to stream on the condition that they would find me a place to live.”

Youngberry claimed this contact encouraged them to broadcast on PandaTV. The video also included an audio clip in which the person explained that, compared to AfreecaTV (now SOOP), PandaTV was ‘better regarding outfits and less stressful’.

Youngberry acknowledged a lapse in judgment, stating, “Because I had experience as an idol trainee, I perceived the company as similar to a typical entertainment agency, and I am responsible for not having looked into it sufficiently.” They claimed the contract term was about two years, from May 19, 2023 to June 30, 2025.

Regarding Excel broadcasts within PandaTV, Youngberry said, “I joined after being told it was a K-pop dance competition format, but the tone of the broadcasts began to diverge from what had been promised.”

They said they tried to stop participating but were constrained by clauses in the contract. “There was a condition that if I took actions likely to cause losses to the company, I would have to pay liquidated damages equal to the expected revenue, and I could suddenly end up with debts in the tens of millions of won.”

They added, “All I did was two weeks of Excel broadcasts because I had no choice, and after that I did not participate in Excel broadcasts on PandaTV at all.” They also said, “The Excel broadcasts I joined were not strip streams, and even though the agency frequently pushed for exposure, I refrained as much as possible.”

Youngberry further alleged they were controlled during their personal PandaTV streaming period after the Excel broadcasts. “I had to stream 56 times a week, 68 hours a day. Almost everything was controlled, including stream titles, viewer management, responses to entering viewers, reactions, and even the timing of bathroom breaks, and directives about outfits continued.”

“Clips from the roughly two weeks I participated in Excel broadcasts began to be uploaded to YouTube and TikTok without my consent,” they said. “When I mentioned reporting it to the police to the company, only then did they admit it was the work of the marketing team.”

As one reason for not explaining earlier, they said, “Because of the confidentiality clause in the contract, I could not readily speak up.”

As for what decisively accelerated the disclosure, they said, “My family happened to see an Instagram account that had uploaded pornographic content of me made with AI, and after seeing a comment on the post that read, ‘Youngberry is from PandaTV’s nightlife scene anyway, so would not care about this,’ I decided I could no longer remain silent.”

They added, “If it had simply been a matter of having done Excel broadcasts, I would have let it pass quietly, but falsehoods and sexually harassing comments at an unspeakable level that I did strip streams, sold my body to viewers, did Excel broadcasts for over a year, that I came from the nightlife industry continue to spread.”