The Twitch streamer QTCinderella (28) made a name for herself on Twitch in 2022 as a successful streamer. Her viewer numbers have increased by 70%, she has hosted successful events, and she is finally more than just “Ludwig’s girlfriend”, but she is not happy about it. On the contrary: she says she is worse off than ever before in a YouTube video. The reason for this are the constant cases of swatting that she has faced alongside Ludwig Ahgren.
How successful was QTCinderella on Twitch in 2022? Quite successful: All statistics of the streamer QTCinderella show a steep upward trend:
- She has an average of almost 5,900 viewers when she is live. This is an increase of 72% compared to the previous year. Her total watch hours have also skyrocketed by 45%.
- Especially the event “Streamer Awards” in March 2022 was a huge success for the 28-year-old. At its peak, she had 381,000 viewers and the awards were a major topic on Twitch.
- But with success came many problems for her.
Streamer says: She was often introduced as “Ludwig’s girlfriend”
This is what the streamer says: In a YouTube video with AnthonyPadilla, QTCinderella talks about “the darkest time in her life.” She explains how hard she had to work to make a name for herself: For a time, she was only known as “Ludwig’s girlfriend” and was introduced that way too.
She says: That is exactly why she never wanted to be with someone from the industry. But the guy was just too sweet.
Now it is like this: When both are streaming and Ludwig says in his stream that he is hungry, 500 people in her chat will tell her: “Make Ludwig a sandwich.”
But the success that QTCinderella has now with her own events and streams does not make her happy:
I think it is only a matter of time before I quit because I’m losing my mind. My therapist says he has never seen an industry that causes as much trauma as this one.
Streamer says: She wakes up at night and shakes Ludwig because she thinks they are being swatted
How are her problems expressed? The streamer says she and Ludwig have been “swatted”. This involves people calling the police and saying that there is a dramatic situation, such as a hostage situation, and they want to trigger a police raid on a residence.
In 2017, during such a swatting incident, an innocent and actually uninvolved man was shot.
QTCinderella says:
“We were swatted and I had some really traumatic things happen in my life […] Since then I get a sinking feeling in my stomach every time a car passes our house – or when a light comes on outside. As soon as I hear helicopters, I have that feeling. There have been times when I’ve woken up in the middle of the night and shaken Ludwig because I thought we were being swatted, but there was nothing.”
The streamer says she does not know when she will be able to sleep through the night again. She has more suicidal thoughts than ever in her life. Everything is very frightening.
Ludwig and QTCinderella were swatted 3 times during “Subathon” 2021
In one scene, she describes what it is like to be swatted:
It is Easter morning, half past five, it is day 27 [of Ludwig’s Subathon], I am exhausted. I think to myself: I can go to sleep. I wake up at 5 a.m. and the lights are so bright through my bathroom window that they illuminate the whole room. I am frozen in my bed and I only hear: “This is the LAPD, come out with your hands up.” And every time you go out there, you think: If anyone makes a move here, I’m dead. There are so many guns – Every single time. They never bring fewer guns. I am the only one awake and I have to wake everyone else up. I walk past a window and they are going crazy on the megaphone: “Come out! We are going to shoot, we are going to shoot!”, so I fall down and crawl […]
The segment in the video starts at around 20:43 minutes:
In the Twitch stream, the swatting is not mentioned
This adds to the streamer’s burden: QTCinderella is particularly upset that they were swatted for the third time in the scene and that this was sometimes done by the same police officers and no one thinks to warn them in advance.
The problem is also that afterwards, in the stream, they have to pretend that everything is normal. Because talking about being swatted would give people satisfaction. Currently, there is no public discussion about swatting.
In the scene, QTCinderella had to explain why she interrupted Ludwig’s stream during the swatting and said: She tripped over a cable when she wanted to bring Ludwig an Easter gift.
This is behind it: “Swatting” is apparently a much bigger problem than what is perceived in public because streamers cover it up to prevent copycats.
When Ludwig was swatted three times alone during his streaming marathon in March/April 2021, one can understand that it puts an extreme burden on streamers – especially since in big cities like Los Angeles, the situation seems to be much more drastic than in places where streamers live more secluded and have a more personal relationship with the local law enforcement.
For female streamers, life is already hard with the constant sexualization, which QTCinderella also talks about, but female streamers who are with one of the top streamers on the platform seem especially burdened by the swatting.
The streamer Adept also once shared how much she and the biggest Twitch streamer in the world suffered:
27-year-old shares how much she and the biggest Twitch streamer in the world suffered
