Amouranth hits back after fans criticize Twitch star\u2019s exploitation claims YouTube: AmouranthKaitlyn \u2018Amouranth\u2019 Siragusa has hit back at fans following the Twitch star\u2019s exploitation claims against a former business partner. While some disputed the streamer\u2019s accusations \u201cwithout receipts\u201d, Amouranth defended her comments. Amouranth went public with accusations of \u201cexploitation\u201d against a business partner in a November 17 Twitlonger titled: \u201cI\u2019m tired of this happening\u201d. In the statement, Siragusa claimed a former associate, who worked with the popular Twitch streamer for a few months, recently asked her out for dinner while they were in town. Amouranth felt \u201cuncomfortable\u201d with accepting the request, and ignored it. However, the business partner \u201cimmediately became aggressive, threatening to end the deal when they thought that I had declined his invitation.\u201d I\u2019m tired of this happening Read: https:\/\/t.co\/bIZ4bz4Yud \u2014 Amouranth (@Amouranth) November 17, 2021 After the claims went public, Amouranth faced some backlash from critics. They wanted \u201creceipts\u201d before believing the streamer. Some also claimed Siragusa misread the situation: \u201cThere is the narrative of [a] guy working with [a] famous attractive girl, seeing an opening to meet [a] business partner, is immediately accused of inappropriate behavior via the lack of acknowledgement, resulting in his rage,\u201d one commenter said. Amouranth trashed the claims, saying \u201cthe thunderous accusation presented by my mere silence justifies him turning into the Incredible Hulk.\u201d I love this one. \u201cIs immediately accused of inappropriate behavior via a lack of acknowledgement, resulting in his rage\u201d Yes. The thunderous accusation presented by my mere silence justifies him turning into the Incredible Hulk lol. pic.twitter.com\/ktqF9F3Q2Q \u2014 Kaitlyn (@wildkait) November 18, 2021 She also said the power dynamic of the relationship made the request more awkward. She explained: \u201cIt\u2019s almost like I\u2019m not allowed to ask someone out when there\u2019s a power dynamic inequity,\u201d Amouranth opted not to name the business partner publicly, but offered to message fellow streamers their name to protect themselves. However, she stressed it\u2019s not an isolated incident. It\u2019s almost like I\u2019m not allowed to ask someone out when there\u2019s a power dynamic inequity. Also, when you didn\u2019t answer right away, I took that personally. Like you can\u2019t just not answer immediately and make me feel like I\u2019m being promiscuous. It\u2019s not me, it\u2019s you. pic.twitter.com\/rtd7i1H9Tl \u2014 Kaitlyn (@wildkait) November 18, 2021 \u201cI have been in so many situations like this before, and I\u2019m sure that other girls in this profession are met with these situations all the time, where you expect to be treated appropriately in the context of a business deal, and instead are met with suggestive \u2018offers\u2019 or interactions that completely shatter any concept of professionalism,\u201d she said in her original statement. \u201cIt is unacceptable for women to have to be trained on how to politely decline a request that makes them uncomfortable, or worse, force themselves to accept, just to continue to maintain brand relations and partnerships. \u201cI hope that by speaking about how this kind of thing continues to happen in the workforce today, that we can hold ourselves and the people around us to a higher standard of professionalism when working with women.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Amouranth hits back after fans criticize Twitch star\u2019s exploitation claims YouTube: AmouranthKaitlyn \u2018Amouranth\u2019 Siragusa has hit back at fans following the Twitch star\u2019s exploitation claims against a former business partner. While some disputed the streamer\u2019s accusations \u201cwithout receipts\u201d, Amouranth defended her comments. Amouranth went public with accusations of \u201cexploitation\u201d against a business partner in a […]<\/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-44103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44103","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=44103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}