The 26-year-old DJane and producer Anika “Sinitica” F. is a successful German streamer on Twitch. According to a leak from 2021, she is one of the 3 women on the platform worldwide who make the most money. Now she features the messages of a person who gave her $1 during a Twitch stream. Twitter users find the news disgusting.
Who is this?
Prime Gaming is an important factor in the Twitch ecosystem:
This is what the streamer now shows: In a July 22 tweet, Sintica shows a history of chat messages she received:
“What’s wrong with Twitch?”
How is this commented? Many users on Twitter are disgusted by the donor’s behavior:
German Twitch streamer breaks world record on Christmas Eve – screams donor
Female streamers feel sexually exploited on Twitch
This is behind it: What Sintica describes is a phenomenon that hits many Twitch streamers. People treat them as sexual objects and tell them that:
Streamer Sweet Anita spoke in April 2021 about feeling sexually exploited because people cut clips from their clips and in those clips she is reduced to her sexuality, even though she didn’t do anything suggestive in the actual video. So she said 7 seconds of her butt gets 500,000 views in a day
Streamer Valkyrae found videos online showing sexual acts claiming it was her. There are also entire Twitter channels dedicated to sharing photos of streamers being masturbated to.
Another problem that streamers have is when their most successful clips are not particularly cool moments in games, but everyday actions, such as getting up from a chair or bending forward just because the buttocks or breasts seem to be highlighted for a few seconds in the phase.
As you can see from the comments, this is a problem that many users feel Twitch has a responsibility to solve and address.
Twitch has extensive rules on how streamers should behave in front of the camera so as not to offend. For viewers, however, there do not seem to be any rules that have any consequences.
We at MeinMMO spoke to streamer Gnu about sexism in gaming:
Sexism in the gaming industry: “I thought it was part of it”