It doesn’t matter whether you participate, they’ll make you participate in it.” - Sweet Anita And they want to hate you for being a whore. “They want to see you as a whore, no matter what you do. And what makes matters worse is that, in this most recent instance, someone else was making money off of their objectification. You can be objectified against your will (as Amouranth and all of the women streamers who were deepfaked were), but if you self-objectify, you’re a whore. It doesn’t matter whether you participate, they’ll make you participate in it,” Sweet Anita says. Despite being one of Twitch’s biggest success stories, some people are quick to reduce Amouranth’s fame to her sex appeal even as she repeatedly shows expert business sense and, more recently, announced a pivot away from explicit content. She’s been simultaneously lambasted for creating sexy Twitch content by (mostly) men, while racking up $33 million in OnlyFans revenue thanks to what is likely mostly male subscribers. She’s not wrong about the stigma-Amouranth, one of the top women Twitch streamers, who was allegedly forced to participate in her infamous hot tub streams by an abusive husband, has an OnlyFans where she makes explicit content. I’ll walk barefoot on a beach, but I wouldn’t sell a picture of my foot for a few grand.So that’s the level of hard, ‘No, I will not provide sexual services, it will put me in danger, it will cause people to feel like they can disrespect and dehumanize me, it will affect people’s ability to listen to my opinions take me seriously my ability to contribute to anything because the stigma towards sex workers is so strong’.” “I’ve been offered thousands of pounds in DMs for feet pics,” she says. Twitch, still, has not responded to Kotaku’s request for comment on the ordeal.īut what about the victims? What about the women who were forced to see avatars of themselves doing explicit sexual acts? What do they do now that the footage is out there? And what do you do if you aren’t a wealthy Twitch streamer with the means to combat this kind of sexualized violence? Some Twitch stars have already explored legal action against the site that hosted the content. Though the content has since been taken down, the ramifications of it linger: the women involved (Sweet Anita, QT Cinderella, Pokimane, and Maya Higa) have to grapple with the knowledge that their likenesses were grafted onto porn stars’ bodies, that their peer paid for this content, that they have to do the extensive labor required to get it removed from the internet. It “feels like a form of ridicule,” she told Kotaku. But despite the work she’s done to ensure that she is in control of her own narrative, the recent controversy where fellow streamer Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing accidentally revealed that he had paid to watch deepfake porn posted by a content creator on a site similar to OnlyFans, and simultaneously also revealed that she was one of the victims of those deepfakes has shaken her. There’s a reason why her real name isn’t on the internet, why her team bans anyone who sexualizes her in her Twitch chat, why she asks to record our interview on her end, too.
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