Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa (27) is currently the most successful streamer on the platform Twitch. She now addresses the prejudice that to become a top 50 streamer on Twitch, it is enough to simply look good.
This is Amouranth: The streamer is 27 years old and comes from the USA. In the past few months, she has surpassed the long-time leading Pokimane and is now the most-watched female streamer on Twitch. She ranks 31st, just behind the two biggest German streamers Papaplatte (28) and MontanaBlack (30).
Amouranth has about 2.5 million followers: Most of the time, she does not game on Twitch but is engaged in the categories “Just Chatting” or “ASMR”.
On Twitch, she is one of the streamers who conduct “Hot Tub Streams” and appear in swimwear. MontanaBlack recently pointed to her as an example of the “bathtub” trend that Twitch must address.
When she does play, it’s games like Valheim or No Way Out.
“So it’s said: As a basketball player, one just needs to be tall”
Amouranth deals with this accusation: She says on Twitter that trolls often look at the top 50 female streamers on Twitch and then say:
“You just have to look good to be successful on Twitch as a girl.”
Because all successful female streamers on Twitch are indeed pretty.
This is what the streamer has to say: She states that this is a logical fallacy. It implies that being attractive is enough to be successful.
According to Amouranth, however, the issue is more complicated. For this conclusion does not consider the many attractive women who do not succeed in becoming successful streamers. Nobody talks about them; they are “invisible.”
One must also consider the female streamers who are not successful in order to arrive at a finding like, “It’s enough to be pretty to be successful on Twitch as a woman.”
What does Amouranth think? The streamer apparently believes that “being pretty” is an advantage for women on Twitch, which almost all female streamers have. To say, “It’s enough to be pretty to be a woman on Twitch” is about the same as saying about a basketball player, “He just needs to be tall.”
Because every basketball player, compared to the general population, is tall, this is an advantage that does not need to be mentioned again and again. It is redundant.
She says:
“I don’t care if people tell me you only need big breasts [to be successful]. You can always come to me with that, and in the stream, I will probably address it. But I find it intellectually stimulating to look for the actual causes.”
Amouranth
Streamer points out that the top 10 on Twitch are all men
Amouranth adds: Male streamers also have natural advantages on Twitch. Male viewers often feel a bond with a male streamer and interact with him in a kind of camaraderie, which is not seen as negative at all. After all, the top 10 streamers are all men.
If one says, “Everything a woman needs to be successful on Twitch is good looks”, one could also say, “Everything a man needs to be successful on Twitch is a certain anatomy.”
In response to the criticism that “Twitch is only for gaming”, Amouranth also comments while she is on a roll. That’s like saying: Amazon is only for books.
For several years, it has been an ongoing conflict on Twitch whether the platform should only be for gaming, who has a place there, and what supposedly evil women do to their poor, impressionable victims. Successful female streamers are often accused of seducing men. The then largest female streamer vehemently defended herself against this accusation:
The largest streamer on Twitch is said to exploit lonely men for money.
