Atrioc quits OFFBRAND & takes streaming break in full apology for deepfake controversy Twitch: AtriocAtrioc has apologized a second time \u2013 this time via Twitter \u2013 after it was revealed he had visited a deepfake website that produced explicit deepfakes of female Twitch streamers, including Pokimane, QTCinderella, and SweetAnita. On January 30, Twitch streamer Atrioc apologized via his stream after a short clip revealed he had visited a website that produced sexually explicit deepfakes of female streamers. Affected streamers, like Pokimane, QTCinderella, and SweetAnita, have responded to condemn the behavior. It has spawned controversy elsewhere in the community, with Ethan Klein criticized by xQc for laughing as QTCinderella spoke about the incident. He has since apologized. Now, Atrioc has offered another lengthy apology via a Twitlonger. Atrioc issues second apology following deepfake controversy The statement apologized to the women specifically affected by the deepfakes and pledged to take action against deepfake technology sexualizing women without their consent. It opened: \u201cThis statement is long overdue. My actions have taken me from someone I was proud of, trying to make a positive impact in my community, to a \u201cdeepfake p*rn guy\u201d. The scar of that is felt deeply on my heart. \u201cFirst and foremost I want to specifically apologize to Maya and Pokimane\u2026 Your names were dragged into it and you were sexualized against your will\u2026 I\u2019m sorry I didn\u2019t reach out sooner, I\u2019m sorry my actions have lead to further exploitation of you and your body, and I\u2019m sorry your experience is not uncommon.\u201d He went on to explain that he will be stepping down from content and focussing on combating the prevalence of similar websites, as well as praising QT and her successful effort to shut down the website in question. He finished: \u201cTo ensure this issue has my full focus I am stepping away from content creation and OFFBRAND. \u201cLastly, to anyone who has expressed the sentiment of \u201csupport\u201d that what I did wasn\u2019t wrong, or that I shouldn\u2019t apologize- F**k you. Sincerely, I do not want your support, I do not stand with you. This will be the last time you hear from me for a while. I\u2019d rather you see my actions. I will try my absolute hardest to combat the damage I caused. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Atrioc quits OFFBRAND & takes streaming break in full apology for deepfake controversy Twitch: AtriocAtrioc has apologized a second time \u2013 this time via Twitter \u2013 after it was revealed he had visited a deepfake website that produced explicit deepfakes of female Twitch streamers, including Pokimane, QTCinderella, and SweetAnita. On January 30, Twitch streamer Atrioc […]<\/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-44736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44736","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=44736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}