One of the major streaming stories of last year centred around 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Amouranth. While a lot of the happenings on platforms like Twitch that break through into the mainstream tend to be particularly silly and often mindless drama, Amouranth's case was very serious. In a tearful stream, 168澳洲幸𓆉运5开奖网:a sc🍎ared Amouranth confessed that she was married, a fact she 🃏was forced by her husband to hide so that it did not harm her income, and that she was being forced to stream content she did not enjoy or want to do because her husband controlled a𒅌ll of her finances.
The stream was interrupted by a phone call, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:shortly after Amouranth went offline. Through friends, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:public was kept updated on he𒀰r situation, where she eventually was able to leave and find safety. She's now back streaming, with her content following the same basic beats but allowing her more room for rest and recovery, as well as affording her complete creative control over the type of content she produces, and does not produce. For some reason though, this hasn't been good enough for certain people.
Since 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Amouranth returned to Twitch, I have barely written about her. I don't cover the day to day streamer news, only the most controversial stories that burst through into the public consciousness, and it's been all quiet on the Amouranth front for a little while. The reasons for this are twofold; a lot of my writing on Amouranth has been defending her from what I’ve always considered to be unfair targeting from other streamers, and the reason people slammed her so much was because she was an easy and popular target - that's significantly reduced once it becomes apparent that she is a domestic abuse victim, so people move on to other targets they can dunk on for clout. Secondly, some of their more extreme behaviour, orchestrated in part by her husband, has reduced since Amouranth got herself to a safer place.
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Amouranth has long been a prominent figure in streaming, but she rose to a new level of fame with the general gaming public in 2021 during the Hot Tub Meta. Much like the name suggests, it featured streamers sat in hot tubs. Amouranth had huge success during this popular window, but was also targeted by several other streamers with overbl𒅌own misogynistic rage. xQc, whose content includes him jumping up and down on the bed and showing gorillas having sex, and who regularly encourages viewers to gamble for his own pro✨fit, called 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the streams 'trash'.
Criticism directed towards Hot Tub streams 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:were pointed in the wrong direction. There was always a problematic aura in how these streams crossed an already blurry parasocial line, but that was never where the anger was aimed. This 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:was followed by the Fart Meta, a pornographic riff on the popular ASMR streams on Twitch which included farting into the mic, but also dressing up as Spider-Gwen in a plastic horse mask and wriggling around to create noise. It was an odd time, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:again, there were♏ issues with this meta, 🉐but the discussion never got out of a very shallow first ⛦gear.
Amouranth, alongside streamers, was banned for her participation in the Fart Meta, and then promptly 168澳✤洲幸运5开奖网:returned to Twitc♏h to sell her farts in a jar. At the time, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I wrote in support of her muc🐓h-memed product. It seemed like the perfect 'f*** you' to her critics who suggested she had so little talent she merely had to fart and people would give her money. There is no other streamer who could make as big a success of farting in a jar than Amouranth, and like it or not, that's the sweet smell of success.
When it emerged that her husband was forcing her into streaming more often, in more extreme ways, into pushing her OnlyFans harder, and into overworking herself, I saw the farts in a jar and my original perspective on them in a new light. If this was Amouranth enacting a petty and profitable revenge, then I'm all for it. If this was her then-unknown husband forcing her to humiliate herself publicly, then that's different, but Amouranth has continued to discuss this business move since (appꦺarently the jars were kept by the toilet💙 for easy reach), though she has not started them up again.
She’s also moved away from the hot tubs, now 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:streaming more Overwatch and general gaming content. She 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:still does some NSFW-style streams, shares 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:modelling shots and merch of herself, and maintains an active OnlyFans, and thus over time, the sympathy we once collectively felt for her has dwindled. It seems a strange position to feel sorry for Amouranth because of the horrible situation she lived through, then change your mind because she continues to make money from posing in cosplay or lingerie. Of course, this sympathy was never there at all for some, who accused her of faking it or even that she deserved it. These people are dicks, so I'm not going to pay them much attention.
Amouranth's content has been reshaped since she found freedom from her husband, leading to her being happier and more fulfilled. But she's still Amouranth. It's not like every single step of her career was the result of an outside puppeteer and she has been a meek and submissive follower. She has shown herself to be a competent businesswoman and to have an ambitious drive. The problem was that she was pushed past her limits and never afforded a break or enough creative control, not that her whole operation was upside down the entire time. To criticise her for continuing on the same path as before misunderstands her content then, her content now, and the nature of her abuse.
I don't know why some seem to have such a distaste for Amouranth. She is a supporter of crypto, but even that's in a 'this could be interesting' kind of way rather than 'I am actively stealing art via AI and NFTs and am selling it on at an inflated price'. By YouTuber and streamer standards, that's nothing. The only real thing people seem to have to hold against Amouranth is that she's an attractive woman who makes money out of marketing that attractiveness. When you see the many examples of harm being perpetrated by influencers, social media stars, and Always Online celebrities, it's odd that Amouranth cuts such a divisive and controversial figure. In the grand scheme of things she is nothing, yet has become a massive target and continued to be even after enacting so much change.
She's still the same old Amouranth, and given her success, why would she have it any other way? Why would we want it any other way? Our only concern should be that she is safe, that's the basic hope we should have for pretty much everyone. To get offended over, complain about, or even cast doubt on her claims of abusive control because of her continued use of OnlyFans or posting pictures of herself in yoga leggings is no less misogynistic than those who dismissed her as a talentless fraud back in the days of the hot tubs. When we say 'support women', we mean the pretty ones who make money from pictures in their underwear too.