Sweet Anita considering quitting Twitch over \u201cmental toll\u201d of creepy streaming fans Twitch: Sweet AnitaSweet Anita reveals she may \u201cone day\u201d be forced away from Twitch by creepy fans, many of whom idolize and sexualize her far beyond her gaming streams, as the \u201cmental toll\u201d of her internet fame continues to weigh on the star. Anita, who has Tourette\u2019s syndrome, is no stranger to being sexualized on the internet, especially \u2014 and unfortunately \u2014 by many of her 1.7 million followers. The 30-year-old first started streaming in 2018. Back then, her Twitch channel was just an easy way for her to share Overwatch gameplay with her burgeoning friends list but it soon became so much more; by 2020 she had cracked over a million fans, and become one of the platform\u2019s bonafide stars. Sweet Anita is considering packing it all in, however. The Twitch fame Anita has earned over the past four years has been, in her words, \u201cincredible,\u201d but with it comes something sinister too. Among her 1.7m followers, many see the UK star as a sexual object, rather than just a streamer. Her constant battle with creepy fans takes a heavy \u201cmental toll,\u201d the Twitch star admits, so much so that Sweet Anita is tempted to scrap streaming and step away. The breaking point, Sweet Anita told HuffPost on July 20, was uncovering a new \u201cNSFW\u201d forum page on Reddit. The subreddit, which Dexerto will not identify, was filled with men who shared images, collages, and videos of the streamer. While Anita has never livestreamed nude, many of the images on the forum were digitally edited to make it look like she had. Others were slowed-down Twitch clips. On the linked Discord channel, things were even worse too. There, some Sweet Anita \u2018fans\u2019 shared videos of them ejaculating onto livestream screenshots, printed out images of the Twitch star, and edited photos. The anonymity of the Discord channels \u2014 and their invite-only access \u2014 meant the content shared was beyond what Anita had found on the original Reddit forum. \u201cNo matter what I do, or how I dress, they do this to me,\u201d she said. \u201cI haven\u2019t ever even taken my clothes off in front of the camera and yet I\u2019m still a very successful porn star. These people are literally ruining my experience of streaming,\u201d the Twitch star continued. \u201cIt\u2019s basically like having millions of people be your boss, and your boss is allowed to sexually harass you every day.\u201d Anita says she\u2019s attempted to have the Reddit forums and Discord groups shut down since discovering them in June but has, so far, been unsuccessful. There are other reasons too. Perhaps the biggest was the UK-based streamer\u2019s ongoing struggle with a Twitch stalker who regularly slept outside her house, would follow her to the shops, and often threatened to kill her. And so, Sweet Anita is now toying with the idea of eventually stepping away from Twitch; she still loves streaming, but all the baggage it comes with is just \u201ctoo much\u201d. Before she was an internet celebrity, the 30-year-old had a steady career in wildlife rehabilitation. Her plan is to return to that, once she leaves Twitch. \u201cI\u2019ll probably end up going back to [that],\u201d she said. \u201cThe mental toll of being at the mercy of these people for the rest of my life would just not be survivable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sweet Anita considering quitting Twitch over \u201cmental toll\u201d of creepy streaming fans Twitch: Sweet AnitaSweet Anita reveals she may \u201cone day\u201d be forced away from Twitch by creepy fans, many of whom idolize and sexualize her far beyond her gaming streams, as the \u201cmental toll\u201d of her internet fame continues to weigh on the star. […]<\/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-59741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59741","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=59741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}