The Twitch Community Has Been Rocked By A Deepfake Porn Scandal. “It Was Quite Horrifying,” One Victim Said.
The article reported that popular streamers Pokimane, Maya Higa, and QTCinderella were among those who appeared as deepfakes. Anita — who gained notice on Twitch for embracing her Tourette’s syndrome and educating her audience about it — was not mentioned, but she decided to do some investigating.
“I typed my name and the name of the website, and I was confronted with some stuff,” Anita, who does not share her actual name, told BuzzFeed News. “I was wishing for eye bleach. I saw myself in positions I would never agree to, doing things I would never want to do. And it was quite horrifying.”
Afterward, Anita condemned the creator of the deepfakes, whose identity is not publicly known, to her nearly 380,000 Twitter followers. “I literally choose to pass up millions by not going into sex work and some random cheeto encrusted porn addict solicits my body without my consent instead,” she tweeted. “Don’t know whether to cry, break stuff or laugh at this point.”
Meanwhile, other women whose images were featured on the page, which is hosted on OnlyFans knockoff Fan-Topia, shared their disgust on social media.
“Stop sexualizing people without their consent,” tweeted Imane “Pokimane” Anys, one of the most popular female streamers on Twitch, who plays games like League of Legends and Valorant for her 9.3 million followers. Maya Higa, an environmentalist who has 729,000 followers on Twitch, posted on Twitter a statement in which she compared the deepfakes to being raped in 2018. “This situation makes me feel disgusting, nauseous, vulnerable, and violated- and all of these feelings are far too familiar to me,” the statement read.
QTCinderella, a League of Legends streamer with 830,000 followers, posted a tearful denunciation of the deepfakes on her Twitch stream. “If you are able to look at women who are not selling themselves or benefiting off of being seen sexually,” she said, “if you are able to look at that, you are the problem, you see women as an object.”
The article reported that popular streamers Pokimane, Maya Higa, and QTCinderella were among those who appeared as deepfakes. Anita — who gained notice on Twitch for embracing her Tourette’s syndrome and educating her audience about it — was not mentioned, but she decided to do some investigating. “I typed my…
