Amouranth hits back at Twitch trolls claiming it\u2019s easy for \u201cpretty\u201d women to be streamers Instagram: amouranthKaitlyn \u2018Amouranth\u2019 Siragusa, one of the most popular streamers on Twitch, has criticized the oft-repeated claim that it\u2019s easy for \u201cpretty\u201d women to become popular and successful streamers. Despite numerous female creators rising to prominence in recent years, 2021\u2019s quarter one stats have proven that women are less likely to receive high viewership than their male counterparts, on both Twitch and YouTube. While Valkyrae, 100 Thieves streamer turned co-owner, has received a colossal 12.2 million views in the first months of 2021, the highest of all women, she still sits pretty far down the list overall. Fellow streamer Amouranth has highlighted how difficult it is to gain prominence on either platform \u2013 despite \u201ctrolls\u201d who think it must be easy for women. In a series of tweets on her personal account, the Twitch icon discussed the difficulties associated with being a woman in the streaming industry. Specifically, she hits out at people who look at the top 50 female streamers and deduce that \u201call you have to do is look pretty to succeed as a girl streamer.\u201d Describing this as a \u201clogical fallacy\u201d Siragusa notes that \u201cit actually implies that looking attractive is not the only requirement but a pre [requisite] or baseline.\u201d \u201cSurvivorship bias aside it\u2019s probably harder for the average girl, and it says nothing about the pretty girls who cycle out and don\u2019t \u201cmake it\u201d as streamers. But no one wants to talk about that.\u201d She continues, \u201cif \u2018failures\u2019 become invisible not only do we fail to recognize that missing instances hold important information, but we may also fail to acknowledge that there is any missing information at all.\u201d Unpopular opinion: trolls love to look at the top 50 female streamers or take a glance at the top of the directory and conclude \u201call you have to do is look pretty to succeed as a girl streamer\u201d On its face this is a Logical fallacy It actually implies that looking attractive \u2014 Kaitlyn (@wildkait) April 14, 2021 invisible, not only do we fail to recognise that missing instances hold important information, but we may also fail to acknowledge that there is any missing information at all. \u2014 Kaitlyn (@wildkait) April 14, 2021 It\u2019s enlightening to hear her perspective on the ongoing debate, sparked by the \u201chot tub meta\u201d particularly. Some streamers have suggested that this new \u2018meta\u2019 has created an \u2018anti-women sentiment\u2019 on the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Amouranth hits back at Twitch trolls claiming it\u2019s easy for \u201cpretty\u201d women to be streamers Instagram: amouranthKaitlyn \u2018Amouranth\u2019 Siragusa, one of the most popular streamers on Twitch, has criticized the oft-repeated claim that it\u2019s easy for \u201cpretty\u201d women to become popular and successful streamers. Despite numerous female creators rising to prominence in recent years, 2021\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}