Sweet Anita reveals the hardships of streaming on Twitch with Tourettes Twitch streamer \u2018Sweet Anita\u2019 is different from many other broadcasters on the platform, thanks to her acute Tourette\u2019s syndrome \u2013 which has placed her at the forefront of online backlash. While Anita\u2019s Tourette\u2019s syndrome is fairly volatile, the streamer is known for her hilarious antics and good humor, and even boasts one of the most supportive communities on Twitch. However, her generally positive reputation was called into question by internet critics after the streamer blurted out a racial slur \u2013 an unintentional phrase that came as the result of a tic, due to her Tourette\u2019s. Not for the first time, Anita addressed the racial slur and her condition in a series of Tweets on December 12. She\u2019s apparently lost 1,000 subscribers since this issue took center stage, and is even afraid to phone her own father due to fear of the tic being triggered. \u201cI don\u2019t know how people can think I fake this for personal gain,\u201d Anita wrote. \u201cMy dad is black, he keeps ringing me and I can\u2019t imagine picking up the phone in case I tic something racial at him. I dropped nearly 1,000 subscribers after that tic went viral, and now it won\u2019t, due to the stress.\u201d I don’t know how people can think I fake this for personal gain. My dad is black, he keeps ringing me and I can’t imagine picking up the phone in case I tic something racial at him. I dropped nearly 1000 subscribers after that tic went viral and now it won’t due to the stress. \u2014 Sweet Anita (@sweetanita) December 12, 2019 That\u2019s not all: the tweets also revealed that she had even been kicked out of a shop due to her condition that same day, and returned home to view hateful comments about her Tourette\u2019s online. \u201cI was removed from a shop today for shouting it, and now I have to go further to get things for my mum, who is disabled,\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd I come home to read all of these comments.\u201d It has not been an easy past few weeks for Anita, who saw her unintentional racial outburst spawn a wave of outrage across the streaming community. Some, like Twitch star Summit1G\u2019s girlfriend \u201clilchiipmunk,\u201d have called for her to be banned for the incident. While both Summit and his girlfriend have since apologized, others online have not been so kind, with a clip from her broadcast going viral on sites like the infamous WorldStarHipHop. Anita has addressed the backlash previously, but her latest Tweets reveal just how difficult life can be with Tourrette\u2019s \u2013 especially given the cold and unforgiving nature of internet culture when one\u2019s life is broadcast online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sweet Anita reveals the hardships of streaming on Twitch with Tourettes Twitch streamer \u2018Sweet Anita\u2019 is different from many other broadcasters on the platform, thanks to her acute Tourette\u2019s syndrome \u2013 which has placed her at the forefront of online backlash. While Anita\u2019s Tourette\u2019s syndrome is fairly volatile, the streamer is known for her hilarious […]<\/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-59755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59755","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=59755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}