NY Post appears to label Valkyrae a \u201cbikini streamer,\u201d causing outrage among fans Valkyrae\/NY PostWith \u201cbikini streams\u201d and the \u201chot tub meta\u201d in full swing on Twitch, fans of streamer YouTuber superstar Valkyrae were not pleased when they thought an article by the New York Post lumped her in with the trend. Rachel \u2018Valkyrae\u2019 Hofstetter is co-owner of 100 Thieves and one of the most-watched female streamers on Twitch; what she isn\u2019t however, is a so-called \u201cbikini streamer.\u201d Hot tub streams, or just streams featuring a scantily-clad streamer interacting with their audience, have become more popular than ever lately. They\u2019re even reaching mainstream news outlets like the NY Post, who came out with a story about the trend on May 8. The story quoted Valk\u2019s defense of hot tub streamers, but the lead-in to her blurb is what caught the ire of online fans on Twitter once the story started being shared. Her quotes are introduced just after a line that reads \u201cBikini streamers were quick to defend the practice.\u201d To be fair, the Post\u2019s article does address Hofstetter as \u201cthe internet\u2019s most-watched female streamer\u201d and never directly refers to her as a bikini streamer. However, many in the gaming community interpreted the way this piece was written as the outlet essentially grouping her with those who do stream in that manner. They literally said \u201cBikini streamers were quick to defend the pratice\u201d and went directly in to quotes by Rae. They 100% called her a bikini streamer, do to lazy, sloppy writing. \u2014 Just A Camera (@VegasVanguards) May 8, 2021 Others took it a step further than just muddled writing though, saying it was shocking to see what they called a \u201cblatant lie\u201d placed right in a mainstream publication about their favorite streamer. Its actually scary how often \u201creputable\u201d news sources just blatantly lie in their pieces. \u2014 Kevi \ud83c\udf40 (@KeviSkillz) May 8, 2021 imagine calling valkyrae a bikini streamer when 99% of the time shes in an oversized sweater and she doesnt even stream on twitch lol what a dogshit article. \u2014 acab (@Mr_Mojo_Risin__) May 8, 2021 Finally, there were even fans offering to \u201chandle\u201d the problem for Valkyrae (whatever that means). Based on this take and all the others, it\u2019s clear she has plenty of supporters in her corner willing to back her up. The YouTube star has yet to comment on the situation and seeing as she hasn\u2019t weighed in at all at the time of writing this article, it might be a while (if ever) before we hear her thoughts on how exactly the quotes were presented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NY Post appears to label Valkyrae a \u201cbikini streamer,\u201d causing outrage among fans Valkyrae\/NY PostWith \u201cbikini streams\u201d and the \u201chot tub meta\u201d in full swing on Twitch, fans of streamer YouTuber superstar Valkyrae were not pleased when they thought an article by the New York Post lumped her in with the trend. Rachel \u2018Valkyrae\u2019 Hofstetter […]<\/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-56858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56858","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=56858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}