A streamer on Twitch complained that viewers are posting clips of her from the moments when she bends down or steps away from her chair during the stream. This has prompted Twitch’s biggest streamer, Imane “Pokimane” Anys, to respond.
This is the complaint: Twitch streamer QuarterJade has about 350,000 followers on Twitch, with an average of 4,000 viewers watching her play Valorant or during Just Chatting.
She recently complained on Twitter: people make clips of her when she leans forward or gets up from her chair. Anyone who does that is a “loser.” She is fed up with these stupid perverts and hopes that misfortune befalls them.
It clearly bothers her that at that moment it becomes apparent that some people are not watching her for her content but reducing her to her body. Because in those clips, her behind can be seen.
In fact, QuarterJade seems to react extremely allergic to “weird advances” in the Twitch chat, as seen in one clip.
A Twitch user says that in “real life” she looks much cuter than in her Discord photo. She should update that. QuarterJade then makes gagging noises and asks if the guy ever goes outside.
“Getting up from the chair is not a sexually suggestive act”
Here’s the discussion: It quickly becomes clear that QuarterJade is not the only woman on Twitch experiencing this phenomenon. A smaller streamer chimes in and says: She has always found it strange that her biggest clip only shows her baking and leaning forward. In that clip, she actually does or says nothing (via twitch).
Many Twitter users agree with QuarterJade. It’s disgusting behavior that reflects badly on “men.”
However, a Twitter user contradicts QuarterJade: She has control over this, she just needs to turn off the camera briefly when she stands up, then that wouldn’t happen.
But this statement draws Pokimane into the discussion. The biggest streamer on Twitch asks: Why should female streamers have to work around these “creeps” in the chat? Especially for simple things like standing up.
That is not a sexual act at all, simply getting up from the chair.
Pokimane speaks from her own experience. A clip featuring Pokimane’s “curvy” moments is circulating on YouTube and has over 2.1 million views. She is likely the streamer who has dealt the most with these “creepy clips.”
Pokimane is often confronted with comments that she is “thicc,” meaning curvy.
Clips confirm a certain image that some men have
What’s behind this: These clips, where nothing happens other than a streamer standing up and briefly showing her butt, feel uncomfortable because they are highlighted and sexualized.
This phenomenon of sexualizing women on Twitch leads to a false image that in turn leads to hostility.
Women streamers are often live for hours, sitting and gaming. The one moment when they stand up or bend down is actually just a fraction of the stream. However, that is the moment that gets “clipped” and ends up online.
This creates the impression that this streamer is deliberately using her sexuality to entertain viewers – even when that is not the case at all.
Such clips and clip compilations create a distorted image of a streamer, which in turn causes outrage. For example, a myriad of clips from the streamer Alinity was edited together, making it look like her dog constantly sniffs her.
These clips then confirm a preconceived judgment: Streamers rely on sexuality to earn money.
To avoid creating such an image, streamers would have to strictly control every second they are live, what they do, what is visible, and what angle the camera is at. This is hardly feasible. Male streamers can be seen doing all sorts of things during long streams. Nobody cares enough to create a clip compilation from it because male streamers are not suspected of showing any body parts for attention.
Especially Pokimane is under constant suspicion from some men of planning something malicious and sinister. This manifested in 2020 in several conflicts. She was accused of making eyes at lonely men and financially exploiting them.
Pokimane finds these accusations extremely out of line:
The biggest streamer on Twitch is said to exploit lonely men for money
