After #metoo, which encourages women to speak up in the event of rape or sexual assault and gave rise to other hashtags such as #metooincest or #metoomedia, here are now revelations in the video game and streaming world, with fed up with certain figures of this movement. The latest to rise up on social networks is called Maghla.
maghla is a 28 year old young woman. She made a name for herself by commenting on video games in front of the camera. A very sexist universe. Today, Maghla is one of the influential personalities on YouTube and Twitch with almost 700,000 “followers”. A star of the web, so much so that the Yves Saint-Laurent brand has made her its muse.
Notoriety also has its drawbacks and this week Maghla who can no longer decide to speak. She recounts on Twitter the insults, death threats and sexual harassment of which she is the victim on a daily basis. She has tweeted numerous publications on these subjects to denounce certain actions on the web.
She explains discovering a clip directly evoking her cleavage: she cannot dress as she wishes, otherwise she exposes herself to inappropriate reactions, comments which call for rape. Maghla also revealed how on forums some ill-intentioned Internet users make photo and video montages of her in order to stage her in sexual acts.
And this is not the first time that she has denounced these behaviors. Three years ago, Maghla made a burnout because of her workload and the waves of cybersexism she claimed to be experiencing on social media. She therefore describes her daily life as hell.
I’m tired and it’s time for me to explain.
I’ve been streaming for years and open my mouth about 10% max of the problem, because apparently you have to ignore it for it to pass.⬇️⬇️⬇️
— Maghlarnaque (@Maghla) October 24, 2022
Not an isolated case
The world of streaming has made and still makes dream. Notoriety is important, earning money too. There are more and more followers. But the universe is not rosy and Maghla is therefore not an isolated case. Women on Twitch and YouTube have long spoken and spoken out against these actions for years. Many have filed a complaint, expressed themselves, identified their attackers.
In the latest revelations this week, the videographer Shironamie aired a chat with a stranger who was threatening her with death and rape over the phone. A week earlier, Amouranth, with her 6 million subscribers to her Twitch channel, described the emotional abuse she had long suffered from her husband.
PREVENTION MESSAGE ?
Today I was live like every day, until I received a call from a stranger, he pretended to be a delivery man and managed to get my address.
Unfortunately for him he did not hide his number.
Sans is followed by a threatening call: pic.twitter.com/TQWN6henIt— Sнιяσ (@Shironamie) October 24, 2022
These acts are reprehensible, because cyberbullying is a crime. It is punishable by law, with penalties of up to two years in prison and a fine of 35,000 euros. It’s the same thing for the threat: the author risks six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 7,500 euros. In the event of blackmail, the author incurs three years’ imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros.