Amouranth reveals Twitch actually invited her to start streaming in early days YouTube: AmouranthTwitch\u2019s reigning stream-queen Kaitlyn \u2018Amouranth\u2019 Siragusa has laughed off claims Amazon is trying to oust her from the platform, revealing the website actually invited her to join all the way back in 2016 to boost numbers. Amouranth may be the biggest female star on Twitch right now, even outshining long-time queen Pokimane, but there\u2019s many that want her barred from the site permanently. The issue that many Twitch fans have \u2014 founded or unfounded \u2014 is that Siragusa leans heavily into \u201csexualized\u201d content, including ASMR streams, hot tub broadcasts, and whatever will earn her viewers and subscribers. It\u2019s a controversial way to find success on a platform many see as a gaming site primarily and a talk-site second, but Amouranth has hit the perfect note; she now averages more than 10k viewers every broadcast \u2014 and it\u2019s all thanks to a Twitch invite, Siragusa says. \u201cYou know, in 2016, they [Twitch] actually invited me to come stream,\u201d the 28-year-old revealed in response to fans demanding she quit the streaming platform. Amouranth revealed to internet star Anthony Padilla in a \u2018tell-all\u2019 podcast on YouTube that Twitch approached her back in 2016, with machinations to use her online popularity to give a newly-founded category a shot in the arm. \u201cThey actually invited me to come stream,\u201d she said. \u201cTwitch had this creative category that they wanted me to stream in. Which is funny,\u201d she continued, \u201cbecause now there\u2019s all these people saying like, oh, get off our platform, Twitch is for gamers, and gaming! And Twitch actually invited me to stream. In 2016 they were inviting me to join.\u201d Amouranth accepted, but didn\u2019t see the true potential until recently: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t until the hot tub meta started I was like, why haven\u2019t I done this my whole career?\u201d Siragusa now totally dominates the Just Chatting category, and really any other Twitch section she decides to stream in too. Heading into 2022, the stream-queen boasts more than 24k subscribers, 4.9m followers, and rakes in more than two million views via her streams across any given week. Before pivoting into Twitch stardom \u2014 after that personal invite \u2014 in 2016, the 28-year-old was working for her character company (she still owns the business) where she\u2019d cosplay as Disney princesses for birthdays and events. \u201cFor work, I actually had my character company,\u201d she said. \u201cI was going to birthday parties, hospital visits for kids, as Disney princesses. It was my dream job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Amouranth reveals Twitch actually invited her to start streaming in early days YouTube: AmouranthTwitch\u2019s reigning stream-queen Kaitlyn \u2018Amouranth\u2019 Siragusa has laughed off claims Amazon is trying to oust her from the platform, revealing the website actually invited her to join all the way back in 2016 to boost numbers. Amouranth may be the biggest female […]<\/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-44183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44183","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=44183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}