29-year-old Kaitlyn Siragusa has established herself as Amouanth as the most watched streamer on Twitch and also makes millions on the payment platform OnlyFans. She invests her earnings cleverly and has built up a reputation as a clever businesswoman. She now showed her latest investment on Twitter.
Amouranth is the most watched streamer on Twitch. In November 2022, she was the only woman in the platform’s top 100. Most viewers probably associate her with scantily clad streams and licking the microphone, but there’s more to Amouranth than meets the eye.
Because Amouranth presents itself as a hard-working businesswoman who invests her profits in the long term – for example in gas stations and the retail chain 7-Eleven. Amouranth has now shared her latest investment on Twitter: shares in the online mail order company Amazon.
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What did Amouranth buy? As Amouranth announced on her personal Twitter account on December 30, she has bought 23,600 Amazon shares for almost 2 million US dollars. Amazon is a huge, global company, so it’s a pretty safe bet.
However, there is something else that is interesting about the investment: Twitch has belonged to Amazon since 2014. Even though the streaming platform is a relatively small part of the company, Amouranth has invested in the platform on which it makes at least part of its bread and butter.
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How does Amouranth justify the purchase? The streamer wrote on Twitter: “To own the means of production”. The political streamer HasanAbi taught her that. He is considered a moral authority on Twitch and is politically far left.
The English sentence comes from the communist work “Das Kapital” by Karl Marx, in which it is said that a worker must sell his labor power because he does not own any means of production. “Seize the Means of Production” is also a popular meme (via knowyourmeme).
We have included the tweet for you here:
How is the tweet received? In addition to the question of how communist it is to buy shares in an extremely capitalist company, one thing worries fans of Amouranth above all: the idea that larger streamers could get a say on Twitch through shares.
At a multi-billion dollar company like Amazon, Amouranth’s investment is still a long way from a seat on its board of directors, but the idea of a platform co-created by streamers is interesting (via Twitter).
Amouranth not only wants to seize the means of production in the coming year, she also has big plans. On the 100 Thieves esports organization’s The CouRage and Nadeshot Show podcast, she spoke about what her fans can look forward to in 2023.
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