Kaitlyn Siragusa (28) became the biggest streamer on Twitch as Amouranth by recognizing the emerging “Hot Tub” meta early and streaming an incredible amount of it. However, in mid-October, she announced that she would like to show more diverse content in the future. Now, after one and a half months, she is taking stock.
What is behind the change? In October, Amouranth explained in an emotional stream that her content had been controlled by her husband. To avoid endangering the “Amouranth brand”, she was not even allowed to say that she was married.
Amouranth wanted to free herself from her husband and show the type of content she wants in the future. However, in the following weeks, voices arose claiming that nothing had changed in Amouranth’s content. This was seen by some as proof that she had merely made up the story with her toxic husband.
Now Amouranth reacted by sharing her Twitch statistics on Twitter and addressing some words to her critics.
Amouranth says her life is better now
On November 27, Amouranth responded to a tweet accusing her of merely using a marketing strategy behind the change in her content. The streamer said she wasn’t aiming for a rebranding.
Instead, Amouranth would simply do what she wants, still earning a seven-figure amount monthly. That would be over one million US dollars. Amouranth had already revealed how much she earns in July 2022.
Amouranth added that her life is better now. With the post, Amouranth reacted to criticism of her content.
YouTuber accuses Amouranth of having the same content as before
What was the criticism? Amouranth returned to Twitch on October 24 after taking a short break. Since then, there have been voices saying that her content hasn’t changed significantly, and she continues doing the same as before her break.
The controversial YouTuber Destiny, who is permanently banned from Twitch himself, also commented on Amouranth’s content.
In a supposed apology, Destiny stated that Amouranth’s content had changed significantly, as she was now much more active in the “Just Chatting” category and would show gameplay, like from the new Pokémon games.
However, Destiny supported his apology with clips of Amouranth, in which she is seen in a bikini, but the category of the stream is apparently marked as “Just Chatting”. He also included a clip of Amouranth playing Pokémon in a bikini.
Amouranth counters with Twitch statistics
How Amouranth responds to the criticism: On November 27, Amouranth responded to the criticism by sharing her Twitch statistics from the past month on her personal Twitter account. She stated that it was a “strange loser mentality” to assert that her content had not changed, according to Amouranth.
What Amouranth’s content looks like now: Amouranth shared her streaming content from the last 30 days. While the percentage of “Hot Tub” streams had been over 50% 90 days ago, it has now dropped to below 10%.
For the first time, she showed more Overwatch than content in the bathtub, according to the streamer, which had never happened before (via Twitter). In light of Destiny’s criticism, Amouranth added that people would probably only be interested in a few selected clips (via Twitter).
What is behind the clips? As users on reddit explain, the clips shown by Destiny are misleading. Amouranth’s streams were indeed correctly classified in the “Hot Tub” category as long as she was showing herself in a bikini, but the clips only displayed the first category of the stream (via reddit).
In fact, a clip in which Amouranth plays the new Pokémon game while being in her hot tub is shown in this category and not the category of the game (via Twitch).
In an interview with journalist Jake Lucky, Amouranth explained last week that she would like to stream exclusively on YouTube but is probably still not quite what YouTube is looking for. However, this could change with the new focus on diverse content.
