Lilypichu hits back at claims \u201csimps\u201d are only reason female Twitch stars get views Twitch: LilypichuPopular Twitch streamer Lily \u201cLilypichu\u201d Ki has gone on the offensive over claims the platform\u2019s biggest female Twitch creators like Pokimane and Amouranth are only famous because \u201csimps\u201d like watching their content and videos. On July 4, the month\u2019s Twitch streaming stats were released. Among them were viewing numbers for the platform\u2019s leading female content creators. The top stars included Pokimane, Jinny, LuluLuvely, and more. Topping the charts was controversial streamer Amouranth, who has dominated headlines over the past few months for her role in the hot tub and ASMR metas. She boasted a whopping 987k hours watched, 507k more than the next closest, Pokimane. It\u2019s an impressive viewing haul, for any creator. Some Twitch fans, however, claimed there was one reason for their popularity: \u201csimps\u201d tuning in to watch women stream. Some even suggested the platform\u2019s top stars wouldn\u2019t be where they are today without that alleged boost. Lilypichu strongly disagrees \u2014 the OfflineTV star went on the offensive soon after several of these claims were made, dubbing them \u201ctotally wrong.\u201d The biggest claims from several Twitch fans was that the platform\u2019s headlining stars like Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel, Ibai Llanos, and Michael \u2018Shroud\u2019 Grzesiek had \u201cearned\u201d their place at the top of the website, while women had been lifted beyond their deserved stardom by dedicated followers \u2014 \u201csimps\u201d \u2014 and simply \u201caren\u2019t entertaining enough\u201d otherwise. \u201cThat\u2019s just not true,\u201d Lilypichu said in response on July 8. She continued: \u201cThere are plenty of entertaining women on Twitch, it\u2019s just easier for people to believe the \u201csimp\u201d narrative. \u201cWhat\u2019s your definition of simp? Someone who\u2019s a super fan, right? Who is maybe obsessive? Donates? What makes you think top male streamers don\u2019t have that? That description can easily fit both genders\u2026 I have a problem with the fact people overuse the word to generalize a girl\u2019s audience. \u201cThe percentage of women streamers who do what you think they do is a lot lower than you think, why would you generalize all women streamers?\u201d \u201cYou said almost all the [other female streamers] get most of their viewers from these \u2018simps,\u2019 so who is almost all the others?\u201d the Offline star continued, before rattling off a lengthy list of Twitch stars she believes have fully earned their place at the top. Lilypichu\u2019s list included streamers like Pokimane, saddummy, Jinnytty, itsHafu, Annie Fuchsia, pqueen, and more. Then she heaped praise on Amouranth too, who has come under fire recently for her unashamed efforts to turn Twitch viewers into profits; something the controversial star happily admitted recently. \u201cIf I were that hot,\u201d Lilypichu then added, \u201cmaybe I\u2019d do the same. No need to bring anyone down, there\u2019s more than enough negativity in the world as is!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lilypichu hits back at claims \u201csimps\u201d are only reason female Twitch stars get views Twitch: LilypichuPopular Twitch streamer Lily \u201cLilypichu\u201d Ki has gone on the offensive over claims the platform\u2019s biggest female Twitch creators like Pokimane and Amouranth are only famous because \u201csimps\u201d like watching their content and videos. On July 4, the month\u2019s Twitch […]<\/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-53645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53645","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=53645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}