Sweet Anita explains why dating \u201csimps\u201d can be \u201ctoxic\u201d Sweet Anita, YouTubeSweet Anita is a popular Twitch streamer, best known for her supportive community and acute Tourette\u2019s Syndrome, who used her platform to share a grain of wisdom about so-called \u201csimps\u201d in the online world. Thanks to her unexpected verbal tics and hilarious sense of humor, Anita has garnered an audience of over 700k follwers on Twitch, using her broadcasts to educate viewers about her condition \u2014 as well as the interesting characters she\u2019s encountered during her time as a top streamer. In a YouTube video uploaded on March 26, Anita admitted that she\u2019s dated some \u201csimps\u201d in the past, which she described as socially awkward people who are \u201cdesperate\u201d for romantic attention and \u201cobsessed\u201d with the object of their affections. \u201cThey\u2019re the kind of person who sells all their stuff so they can donate thousands of pounds to their favorite e-girl and then they live off noodles for the rest of the month,\u201d she jokingly explained. However, she clarified that getting involved with these types (in spite of their constant gifts and compliments) can be \u201ctoxic,\u201d as evidenced by a few stories she told from her own experiences with \u201csimps.\u201d In one story, she revealed how her male roommate would go above and beyond to do small favors for her \u2014 which later caused him to throw \u201ctemper tantrums\u201d when she didn\u2019t return his affections, despite Anita asking him to stop cooking her food and buying her chocolates. \u201cIf a friend cooks you a meal, it\u2019s awesome, and you eat the meal together,\u201d she continued. \u201cIf a simp cooks you a meal, you feel this heavy weight, this heavy burden of pressure and expectations, like, \u2018You like me now, right?\u2019\u201d That wasn\u2019t the worst of it; Anita later discovered deleted photos of herself and her ex-boyfriend on her roommates\u2019 computer while borrowing it, which he\u2019d cropped her ex out of, and he even threatened to \u201cmake her homeless\u201d if she chose to start dating again. Despite asking him to distance himself and clarifying that she wasn\u2019t interested in a relationship with him, her roommate felt he\u2019d been \u201cused\u201d \u2014 behavior that Anita warned against during her stream. \u201cIt\u2019s usually one-sided,\u201d she clarified. \u201cAnd no matter how obvious it is that they\u2019re not interested in you, you keep trying and keep holding out hope\u2026 these sorts of behaviors can drive your friends away.\u201d With the term \u201csimp\u201d growing ever-more prevalent in the online world, Anita\u2019s stories come at a perfect time, with many female content creators sharing their own experiences with overly-enthusiastic male fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sweet Anita explains why dating \u201csimps\u201d can be \u201ctoxic\u201d Sweet Anita, YouTubeSweet Anita is a popular Twitch streamer, best known for her supportive community and acute Tourette\u2019s Syndrome, who used her platform to share a grain of wisdom about so-called \u201csimps\u201d in the online world. Thanks to her unexpected verbal tics and hilarious sense of […]<\/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-59745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59745","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=59745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}