LuluLuvely, Pokimane & more Twitch streamers call out men sexualizing them on Reddit Twitch: LuluLuvelyPopular Twitch streamer LuluLuvely has called out the gross Reddit forums that make demeaning and inappropriate comments, images and videos about her, as well as other female streamers, saying it makes her uncomfortable. Although all streamers, big and small, can often face bullying and harassment, female streamers are often targeted in particular, as streaming remains a male-dominated space \u2013 especially when looking at the most popular broadcasters. Lulu, primarily an Apex Legends streamer, has struggled with hate and harassment in the past, even forcing her to take breaks from streaming entirely. Now, she has called out just one of the ways that viewers, mostly men, will target female streamers by spreading inappropriate sexualized posts about them on Reddit. Many other female streamers confirmed that they were aware of the same happening to them. LuluLuvely calls out gross Reddit posts On April 21, LuluLuvely posted a series of quotes, indicative of what women are often advised to avoid such targeted harassment, such as \u201cJust wear normal clothes and men won\u2019t overly sexualize you,\u201d and, \u201cIf you cover up on stream they will treat you better.\u201d Accompanying the post were four screenshots, showing Reddit posts about Lulu with images and titles like \u201cshe has some a*s\u201d and \u201cif anyone wants to jerk\/talk about lulu dm me.\u201d \u201cJust wear normal clothes and men won\u2019t overly sexualize you\u201d \u201cIf you cover up on stream they will treat you better\u201d \u201cJust don\u2019t act a certain way and the men will respect you online\u201d The men- pic.twitter.com\/1QER7pv1Nn \u2014 Lulu (@LuluLuvely) April 21, 2022 Lulu explained, \u201cThis used to not bother me but recently it\u2019s really been weighing on me. I just feel so uncomfortable on stream knowing that there are men doing this while watching. \u201cAnd I\u2019m so tired of purposely wearing baggy clothes only to still have men clip me walking out of the room.\u201d Her post prompted responses from many other female streamers. QTCinderella highlighted that Reddit will rarely, if ever, remove these subreddits, despite requests. Nope \ud83d\ude43 we\u2019ve tried multiple times to get them taken down but apparently they don\u2019t break any rules \u2014 Lulu (@LuluLuvely) April 21, 2022 Twitch streamer Adept also highlighted the plague of fake images or videos which are fabricated to look like female streamers, and the effect this harassment had on her own life too. They literally photoshop nudes of girl streamers and share them amongst each other and Reddit still says nothings wrong \ud83e\udd21 The worst part is it makes you not want to even express your sexuality on your own time because of it too, at least that\u2019s how it was for me\u2014 adept. (@adeptthebest) April 21, 2022 Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys \u2013 the most-followed female streamer on Twitch \u2013 called the issue \u201crampant\u201d on Reddit, and that they are ignored by moderators on the site. this issue is so rampant on reddit, and it\u2019s really frustrating that they refuse to listen to the very people that are being sexualized in gross threads\/subreddits. \u2014 pokimane (@pokimanelol) April 21, 2022 Reddit does have rules in its content policy about targeted harassment and mentions directly posting sexual media about individuals, but it\u2019s not clear how or if these rules are directly breached by the content made about female streamers. In fact, \u201cRule 1\u201d of the content policy states \u201cRemember the human. Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people.\u201d It is also difficult for Twitch itself to do anything in this scenario, as the content is made separate from Twitch services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LuluLuvely, Pokimane & more Twitch streamers call out men sexualizing them on Reddit Twitch: LuluLuvelyPopular Twitch streamer LuluLuvely has called out the gross Reddit forums that make demeaning and inappropriate comments, images and videos about her, as well as other female streamers, saying it makes her uncomfortable. Although all streamers, big and small, can often […]<\/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-54698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54698","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=54698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}