[Ed note: This article discusses domestic abuse.]
Widespread Twitch streamer and OnlyFans content material creator Amouranth mentioned in an impassioned, tearful stream on Saturday that she is being manipulated and abused by her husband. Amouranth, whose actual identify is Kaitlyn Siragusa, mentioned her husband, who was not named, has pressured her to stream, threatened to harm her canines, and has taken management of her funds and checking account.
“I’m mainly residing in a elaborate jail,” Amouranth mentioned on the dwell stream.
Amouranth’s stream has since been faraway from Twitch, however clips of it have been shared extensively on Twitter and YouTube.
Amouranth has revealed that she has a husband, together with revealing his abuse
He has threatened to kill her canines, take all their cash, and compelled her to stream.
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— GUARD Hunter (@HUN2R) October 16, 2022
Throughout the dwell stream, Amouranth mentioned that her husband noticed the recent tub meta — a Twitch sub-genre the place individuals stream in bikinis whereas in a scorching tub — “as a possibility,” and that he advised advised her to inform viewers that she was single, as a result of it will “smash the enterprise mannequin” to disclose she was married.
Amouranth shared a close-up view of a telephone displaying a textual content thread that she mentioned is between her and her husband. The depicted messages name the recipient a “dumb fuck” and embrace threats to “dump baggage,” throw “merch” off a balcony, and delete Amouranth’s social media. Extra critical threats of economic abuse and threats to kill Amouranth’s canine are additionally a part of the texts. Amouranth additionally shared footage of a damaged doorknob, saying that her husband broke it, thus stopping her from with the ability to lock the door.
“[It] retains you there with the concern and the threats, and also you concern that he’s going to do one thing to your animals,” Amouranth mentioned on the stream. “After which he’s good once more and says, ‘Every thing’s going to be OK.’”
Within the stream, Amouranth additionally spoke on the telephone with a person who she mentioned is her husband. The person’s voice could possibly be heard shouting at her and denying that he mentioned he was going to kill her canine. “I’m going to provide you one final likelihood,” the person on the road mentioned. “I’m going to irrevocably fucking destroy all the pieces.”
On Monday, Amouranth’s content material lead Marz tweeted that Amouranth “says she’s high quality,” including “Police went a number of instances since 5am yesterday.”
Newest replace on Kait/Amouranth: ppl on the staff had been in a position to discuss to her and she or he says she’s high quality
Police went a number of instances since 5am yesterday; She says she’s OK to allow them to’t do a lot
She spent all day speaking to her husband to kind issues out
Unsure what else we will do rn
— marz (@TheRealMarzbar) October 17, 2022
Widespread streamer Ludwig Ahgren mentioned in a video that he reached out to Amouranth’s assistant, and that she is “secure and OK.”
Polygon has reached out by way of e-mail to Amouranth, in addition to her content material lead Marz, for remark, however has not but obtained a response.
Amouranth is an especially common content material creator with a presence on quite a few platforms together with Twitch, YouTube, and OnlyFans. She began her Twitch channel in 2016 with a cosplay focus. Since then, her channel has grown to five.9 million Twitch followers, and spans from online game streams to Simply Chatting movies. In accordance with Streams Charts, she’s the most-watched Twitch streamer this 12 months. She’s additionally extraordinarily common on OnlyFans. Her ASMR YouTube channel has greater than 640,000 followers, and her on-line presence additionally consists of Patreon, Instagram, Twitter, Fansly, and Snapchat accounts.
Amouranth works arduous to keep up these varied channels. In August, she advised Enterprise Insider that she’s solely taken 10 days off in the previous few years. She usually streams for lengthy stretches, together with some 15-hour Twitch streams. In July, Amouranth shared a tweet with an image of her monthly earnings from March via July 2022, which common round $1.5 million per 30 days.
All through her profession, Amouranth has skilled harassment and doxing threats on these content material platforms. YouTubers like PewDiePie have referred to her and different ladies as “Twitch thots,” a derogatory time period used to insult feminine streamers and intercourse employees.
Harassment of Amouranth gained momentum as the recent tub meta took off in 2021. Twitch’s phrases have an exception to the Nudity and Apparel Coverage, which states that “streamers might seem in swimwear in contextually applicable conditions.” In Might 2021, Twitch created the “Swimming pools, Scorching Tubs and Seashores” class for such streams.
In June 2021, Polygon interviewed Amouranth concerning the scorching tub meta and the harassment she has confronted: “I’ve considered it — like, is it price it? I actually do suppose it’s as a result of each job has its stresses.” She additionally advised Polygon that she had totally different hopes for the longer term past streaming, and that she hoped to make use of her financial savings to sometime open an animal rescue.
“My ardour, on the finish of the day, is animals,” she mentioned.
In the event you or anybody you recognize is experiencing abuse at house, the nationwide home abuse hotline is offered 24 hours a day. Name 800-799-7233 for assist.
